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In a few moments more, I knew the numbness would reach my heart. Tarrano had not moved, save that single step side-wise to avoid my onslaught. As I stood there now with my face like fire and my brain whirling with the blood congested in it, I heard his quiet voice: "Do not fear, Lady Elza. This Jac Hallen as I promised you is quite safe with me."
"I came here to Earth, Jac Hallen, for certain things. I find them now accomplished. I belong here no longer." He laughed. "I would not force myself into a war prematurely. That would be very unwise. I think we shall have to avoid this engagement. I am slightly outnumbered." He called an order, quite calmly over his shoulder.
I saw Pangalos' eyes, so I had it stand out, and I made a tear in his plastic skin when I shook hands with him. He didn't feel it, of course." He paused. "Did anybody go to the address I gave Hallen?" Hallen said, in the darkness: "Major Pangalos got there first." The blackness outside the plane seemed to grow deeper.
She was panic-stricken when he told her of his own telephone experience. Her teeth chattered. But she knew instinctively, she said that he was himself. She got into the cab with him. They reached the airport and found the office Hallen had named. The lettering on it, in Greek and French, said that it was a reception room for official visitors only. "Our status is uncertain," said Coburn drily.
Previously, I knew, he had been watching those lights, with the curved ray of the instrument when the lights themselves had been below the horizon. He turned now to me. "They are here, Jac Hallen. Almost here. And I am at their mercy." His tone was ironic; then it hardened into grimness. He was addressing me, but I knew it was for Elza's benefit he spoke.
And something did happen to those Bulgarians that the Greeks don't know anything about, or the Americans either. So you're to tell your story to the high brass down in Athens. I think you'll be locked up afterward as a lunatic and me with you for believing my own eyes. But a plane's being readied." "Where do I meet you?" asked Coburn. Hallen told him. A certain room out at the airport.
Her arms wound about my neck as she clung. I was trying to cast her off when her fingers lifted a corner of my mask. "I was afraid you were not Jac Hallen." Her whisper was relieved, and it had suddenly turned swift and vehement. "I am sister to Maida my name, Alda. I am to warn you. When Tarrano dances with the Red Woman when they go up on the raised circle you drop to the floor! You understand?
Jac Hallen, you wish, I suppose, to go out with our forces?" "Oh yes," I said. He smiled. "The eagerness of youth for danger! And yet is very necessary very laudable " He passed a hand across his forehead with a weary gesture a gesture which seemed to me despondent. Could this be our vaunted leader? My heart sank. He added abruptly: "We shall conquer this Tarrano but at what cost!"
"They are diving into the pool outside cannot you hear them, Jac Hallen?" Impatience came to his voice; in truth, I must have been staring at him witless. "Maidens out there, Jac Hallen, who are seeking handsome youths like yourself for escort. Must I speak plainly? You are not wanted here. Go!" "Another word will be your last."
His voice was still almost emotionless, but I did not miss the gesture of his hand to his belt. "You had best obey, Jac Hallen." I was hardly so witless as not to realize the truth of his admonition. I turned away; and with all the laughter and movement around us, I think that Georg, Maida and Elza did not see me go.
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