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And huge, golden melons of the papaia, ready for the eating, globuled directly from the slender-trunked trees not one-tenth the girth of the fruits they bore. And, for Jerry, most delightful of all, there was the gurgle and plash of a brooklet that pursued its invisible way over mossy stones under a garmenture of tender and delicate ferns.
"Damn that infernal staple!" he gritted, and as he spoke the ax swung into air. "Crash!" On the metal plates it boomed and echoed thunderously. A ringing clangor vibrated the crypt. "Crash!" Did the door start? No; but in the long-eroded plates a jagged dent took form. Again the ax swung high. Cold though the vault was, sweat globuled his forehead, where the veins had swelled to twisting knots.
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