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We kept down in the gulleys as much as possible, avoiding the higher places where Tao's long-range beams were constantly striking, and passed around in front of the Dark City, keeping always at least five miles away. We had been traveling two or three hours, and still Mercer and Anina gave us no clew to what we were about to see. It began to snow. Huge, soft flakes soon lay thick on the ground.
"Well, all I'm working for is to get back home where I came from." "You won't be when you hear all I've got to say." He started at that; then, with sudden change of thought, his eyes turned to Anina. The girl blushed under his admiring gaze. "Say, she's a little beauty, isn't she? Who is she?" "She's my sister," I said, smiling. For once he was too dumfounded to reply.
In a moment more Mercer and I were seated side by side on the little bamboo platform. Miela and Anina took the center positions so that they would be near us. The other girls ranged themselves along the sides, each grasping one of the handles. In another moment we were in the air. My first sensation was one of a sudden rushing forward and upward.
Some of the smaller houses were connected by little wooden bridges. Anina said this was where two or more families of relatives had located together. There were a few boats moving about little punts hollowed out of logs and propelled by long poles and Mercer saw many others, some of them larger like the one he and Anina were in, tied up by the houses. It was now the time of the evening meal.
Miela and I were sitting together disconsolately in our tent, reviewing the situation, when Mercer and Anina burst in. They had been roaming about together, exploring the country, and came in now full of excitement and enthusiasm to tell us what they had found. We two were to accompany them. They would tell us no more than that; and as soon as we had all eaten we started off.
"Two in water," she cried; and then added something to Miela. "Two were in the water. Now they are in the woods, running. Anina will show you." Miela stood guard in the boat over our first two prisoners, while Mercer and I rounded up the others. It was half an hour or more before we had them all trussed up, but none of the ten escaped.
It was some thirty feet long and half as broad, with a high ceiling and stone floor. Its three windows fronted the garden we had just left; in its farther wall a low archway led into an adjoining room. The furniture consisted only of two or three small tables and several low, wide couches, all of bamboo. A woman and the girl Anina rose as we entered.
Now, when Anina Gotti fell off the cliffs, it was a miracle she didn't break her neck; but, when she rolled over into the sea, it was a much greater she wasn't drowned!" "It is better to leave these things to the church, neighbor Vito," was the vice-governatore's answer; "nor do I see that there has been any miracle in the affair to start with." "How!
They swept onward, Mercer keeping the boat offshore as best he could. "Haven't you any idea where we are, Anina? How far along do these cliffs extend?" A huge, jagged pinnacle of rock, like a great cathedral spire set in the cliff, loomed into view ahead. Anina's face brightened, when she saw it. "The way to the Water City," she cried. "A river there is ahead. Not so very far now."
The men were just then breaking camp, and she had returned to wake up Mercer. They ate their last remaining pieces of bread, drank from the little pool of water, and were soon ready to start on after their quarry. "How long will it take them to reach the gorge, Anina?" "Not very long four times farther reach Lone City."
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