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Updated: June 3, 2025
In one of its oblong casements a glow of rose-light showed. And within the glow was the full-length figure of a girl. We could see her plainly, though a small image at that distance with the naked eye, and our personal vision instruments had been taken from us. A slender, imperial figure a young girl seemingly about Elza's age.
A present actuality; it rang soundless in my brain. Elza's voice. Anxious! Frightened! At first only the confused tone of it. Then the consciousness of words. Two reiterated words: "Danger! Jac! Danger! Jac!" I waited no longer, but rushed to Georg and Maida beautiful Maida in her robe of sleep with her white hair tumbling about her.
His arm, swinging backward, warded off Elza's trembling, hesitant blow. The metal block, intended for his head, was knocked from her hand; it fell clattering to the floor. And reaching over, Tarrano gripped the vehicle's control lever, wrenched it bodily from its fastenings! Control of the vehicle was irrevocably lost! We were falling! Breathless moments! Tarrano idly stood apart; his face a mask.
The shadow of a smile crossed Georg's face. "We shall be glad to have you set us free." Tarrano remained grave. "You are a humorist. And a clever young fellow, Georg Brende. You as Elza's brother and as your father's son with your medical knowledge you can be of great use to me. Suppose I offer you a place by my side always? To share with me and with the Lady Elza these conquests.... Wait!
"And he will kill you, of course, to destroy that knowledge and keep the secret for himself " I did not say it aloud, for Elza's sake; but I thought it, and I realized that Georg was thinking it also. Dr. Brende's secret of longevity was the crux of all this turmoil the lever by which Tarrano was raising himself. Scores of facts amid the tumultuous news of these hours showed us that.
While Elza was speaking, Eliza had turned paler and paler; a slight tremor passed through her whole frame, and she compressed her lips firmly, as if to restrain the cry oppressing her bosom. Now she laid her hand gently on Elza's head. "You love him, Elza," she said mildly. "I understand your heart, dearest Elza, you love him. And now dry your tears and listen to what I have to say to you.
Fold Elza to your heart, love her and let her love you; and when in future days, happy in Elza's arms, and surrounded by her sweet children, you remember the past and its grief smilingly, do not forget me, but say, 'Lizzie was right after all! She loved me faithfully!" "Faithfully?" he asked, bursting into tears.
I thank you, therefore, for resisting the men so bravely, for I should have been sorry to be obliged to despise you; you are my dear Elza's cousin, and I myself have always liked you so well." "Eliza," he exclaimed, impetuously, "you are an angel of goodness and lenity, and I stand before you filled with shame and grief.
Blue tongues, licking the air, vanishing into wisps of black smoke. Tarrano snapped off his ray. But the tongues of flame stayed alive. Spreading slowly, soundlessly, their heat now melting the ground. A breath of the smoke touched Elza's face. Pungent, acrid. It stopped her breathing. She choked, coughed heavily to expel it. "Come away, Lady Elza. Let us watch from a safer distance."
In that moment of relief that I had come to my senses, she could not hide the love which even now was unspoken between us. Tarrano! I lay there weak and faint; but with the pressure of Elza's hand, I did not fear that this Tarrano could win her from me. Wolfgar was standing across the room from us. He came forward. "You did not die," he said; and smiled. "I told her you would not die."
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