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Hereupon Shalmaneser "returned" into these parts, and collecting a fleet from Sidon, Paleo-Tyrus, and Akko, the three most important of the Phoenician towns after Tyre, proceeded to the attack of the revolted place. His vessels were sixty in number, and were manned by eight hundred Phoenician rowers, co-operating with probably, a smaller number of unskilled Assyrians.
If Jarvo and Akko were to be trusted, there in the velvet distance lay Yaque, and Med, the King's City, and the light upon the very palace of its American sovereign. St. George's pulses leaped and trembled. And St. George, with a sense of joyful companionship in the little light, paced the deck until dawn. By afternoon the island of Yaque was an accomplished fact of distinguishable parts.
Before the yacht, blazoned on a dark, water-polished stratum of the volcanic stone, was the White Blade which Jarvo told them marked the subterranean entrance to the mysterious island. St. George and his companions and Barnay, Jarvo and Akko were on deck. Rollo, whose soul did not disdain to be valet to a steam yacht, was tranquilly mending a canvas cushion.
"Did not the adôn wish to ascend the mountain?" he asked. "Rather," said Amory, "but how, good heavens?" "I and Akko wish to ascend also; the prince has sent us no message, and we fear him," said Jarvo simply. "There are on the island, adôn, six carriers, trained from birth to make the ascent. They are the sons of those whose duty it was to ascend, and they the sons for many generations.
Jarvo dropped his eyes. "I and Akko," he said quietly, "we are two of these six carriers, adôn." Then Amory leaped up, scattering the ashes of his pipe over the tiles.
There is danger about the palace to-night danger it may be for you. I do not know all, but I come to warn you, and to warn the adôn who has been kind to us. You have brought us here when we were alone in America," said Jarvo simply. "Akko and I will help you now. It was Akko who remembered the tower."
"In America," he said, "a man feels like a mountain. Here he feels like a man." "What do you mean by that?" demanded St. George uneasily. But Akko said no more, and St. George and Amory, with a disquieting idea that each was laughing at the other, let the matter drop.
Without Jarvo or Akko or some one who understood, you might have sailed the high seas all your life and never have come any nearer to Yaque." St. George reflected. "Is Yaque the only example of this kind of thing," he asked, "that the Fourth Dimension would reveal?" "By no means," said the prince in surprise, "the world is literally teeming with like revelations, once the key is in your hands.
Do let us see what we can." "You must be blindfolded, adôn," repeated Jarvo firmly. Amory, passing his arms reflectively through the rubber straps which Akko held for him, spoke cheerfully: "I'll go up blindfold," he submitted, "if I can smoke." "Neither of us will," said St. George with determination. "See here, Jarvo, we are both level-headed.
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