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They died when they headed reluctantly back to the Niccola and detonated two miles from their parent ship. The skipper's voice came: "Mr. Taine! After your next salvo I shall head for the Plumie at full drive, to cut down the distance and the time they have to work in. Be ready!" The rocket tubes went crump-crump again, with a fifth of a second interval.
They all feel a certain lethargy, which calls for repose; and for a while all three lie without speaking a word, their heads resting on their recados the only sound heard being the "crump-crump" of their horses' teeth grinding the algarobia pods into pulp. The silence of the camp is not of long continuance; Gaspar being the first to break it.
"I'm afraid Taine's our only chance," said Baird reluctantly. "If he wins, we'll have time to ... talk as people do who like each other. If it doesn't work " Diane said quietly: "Anyhow ... I'm glad you ... wanted me to know. I ... wanted you to know, too." She smiled at him, yearningly. There was the crump-crump of two rockets going out together. Then the radar told what happened.
He well knows they are safe within that rock-bound chamber; besides that he is tired dead down with the day's exertion; hence his so soon becoming oblivious. Cypriano is the last to yield. But he, too, at length gives way, and all is silent within the cavern, save the "crump-crump" of the horses munching their coarse provender, with now and then a hoof striking the hard rock.
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