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"Giants!" exclaimed the Doctor, staring across the country towards Orlog. There was dismay in his voice. The Big Business Man, standing beside him, clutched at his robe. "How many do you make out; they look like three to me." The Doctor strained his eyes into the dim, luminous distance. "Three, I think one taller than the others; it must be Jack."
And in them, all of those who want to live by Targo's law will I send to Orlog. And all in Orlog who believe him not, will I tell to leave, and to the other cities go to make their homes. Then Orlog shall be Targo's city. And to-morrow he will not die, but go there into Orlog and become their king. For I shall say it may be there are some who like his rule of evil.
"To many cities I went," she answered. "And I told the people all I meant to say. Some of them believed. But they were not many, and of the others who did not believe, they were afraid, and so kept they silent. Then into Orlog I went, and in the public square I spoke for very long, because, for some reason I know not, at first they listened. "But no one there believed.
And because of that they fear and hate us so; yet never have I seen such fearless things as those they did. Death to the giants was their only cry. And I could have killed them hundreds, thousands yet never could I have made them stop while yet they were alive. "I told them Targo I would free. And in Orlog they laughed. For they said that he would free himself before I had returned."
Once in the open country they could grow larger and travel rapidly to Orlog. The Very Young Man thought it would be best to be normal size while leaving Arite. He explained his plan to Aura briefly. It took several successive tastes of the different drugs before this result was accomplished, but in perhaps half an hour they were ready to leave the house.
I can swim very far can you?" The Very Young Man nodded. "If we could get near to Orlog in the water," he said, "we might get a boat. And then when we were small, we could sail up. They wouldn't see us then." "There are many boats," answered the girl in agreement. "Look!" There were, indeed, on the lake, within sight of them now, several boats.
"They did not know. She grew very big and went away." "Where is your brother and my two friends?" "Targo said they were here when he he took Loto. Now they have gone home. He was afraid of them now because they have the drugs." "To-morrow they are going to send a messenger from Orlog to demand the drugs?" "He said to-morrow. Oh, you will do something for us? You can save Loto?"
"Why not let them try out their theories in some city?" suggested the Big Business Man. "They are trying them," the Chemist answered. "There was a revolution in Orlog about six months ago. Several of its officials were assassinated almost the first murders we have ever had. The Targos took possession of the government a brother of this man you saw this morning became leader of the city.
Occasionally they passed a farmer ploughing his field, who stopped his work, stricken dumb, and stared at them as they went swiftly by. When they were well out into the country, perhaps a quarter of the way to Orlog for to beings so huge as they the distance was not great the Very Young Man slowed down to a walk. "How far have we gone?" he asked. Aura stopped abruptly and looked around her.
The beach crawled with their struggling forms, only the spot where Lylda had fallen was black and still. "She's all right," said the Doctor after a moment, bending over Lylda. A cry from Oteo made him straighten up quickly. Out over the horizon, towards Orlog, there appeared the dim shape of a gigantic human form, and behind it others, faint and blurred against the stars!