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It left only fragments that bore no semblance to men. Ventnor was at Chiu-Ming's head; I dropped beside him. There was a crimson froth upon his lips. "I thought that Shin-Je was about to slay us," he whispered. "Fear blinded me." His head dropped; his body quivered, lay still. We arose, looked about us dazedly.
Ever the speculation grew in his face as he made away with Chiu-Ming's artful concoctions. Drake sighed, drawing out his pipe. "A cook, a marvel of a cook. Where did you get him?" Briefly I told him. Then a silence fell upon us.
"All my ammunition is on him." "Chiu-Ming's taking care of that," I gasped. We darted out of the gateway. A good five hundred yards away were Ruth and Drake, running straight to the green tunnel's mouth. Between them and us was Chiu-Ming urging on the pony. As we sped after him I looked back. The horsemen had recovered, were now a scant half-mile from where the road swept past the fortress.
I slept well, waking only once or twice by Chiu-Ming's groanings; his dreams evidently were none of the pleasantest. If there was an aurora I neither knew nor cared. My slumber was dreamless. The dawn, streaming into the niche, awakened us. A covey of partridges venturing too close yielded three to our guns. We breakfasted well, and a little later were pushing on down the cleft.
Damned if I don't think Chiu-Ming's explanation puts less strain upon the credulity than any I could offer." I peered about. It was so. Except for the mark, there was no slightest sign of the unusual, the abnormal. But the mark was enough! "I'm for pushing up a notch or two and getting into the gorge before dark," he was voicing my own thought.
"It was what we heard," I said. "The sounds it was then that this was made." "The foot of Shin-je!" Chiu-Ming's voice was tremulous. "The lord of Hell has trodden here!" I translated for Drake's benefit. "Has the lord of Hell but one foot?" asked Dick, politely. "He bestrides the mountains," said Chiu-Ming. "On the far side is his other footprint.
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