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Even from the mountain peaks you may see the spires and walls of an ice-encased, long dead city. Near the city is a lesser range, upon which to their very tops grow dense groves of palm and other fern-like trees. In the shelter of these groves are many villas of the rich. Upon the highest of this range and near our granite quarries I have decided to build the pyramid.
The long mixed train crawling into the stockyards at Omaha, with its ice-encased wheels, its fringe of icicles pendant from the eaves, and snow from the wind-swept plains of western Nebraska piled on the roofs, looked like an Arctic Special. Kate stood on the rear platform of the swaying caboose looking with wearied unkindled eyes at the myriad lights of the first city she had ever seen.
Suffice it to say that early in the afternoon of the fourth day, upon surmounting the crest of a long ridge of ice-encased rock, at a moment when the demon of the mountain had temporarily withdrawn himself elsewhere, and the atmosphere was for a brief space calm and clear, the two weary and exhausted adventurers caught a brief but entrancing glimpse of a long green valley stretching away ahead of them between the two mountain ranges, with an island-dotted lake in the far distance, and Sorata's dominating ice-clad peak piercing the blue sky to the left of it.
If so, was he still a captive? Why would they leave him to freeze in the open country one moment and then treat him this way later? He could not connect the ice-encased building from which the Reds had taken him with this one.
Then with his clothing drenched and frozen stiff upon him, he steered the tug back to her landing place, through the now receding storm. Kennedy, the tug captain, was there, waiting. As Duncan came ashore Kennedy said menacingly: "If I get my discharge for this I'll prosecute you for piloting without a license." The ice-encased and half-frozen young man made no reply. He simply hurried ashore.
Even if he could, there was no sense in going along that rutted trail, for it led back to the ice-encased building from which he had been brought. They had thrust him out to die; they would not take him in. But a road so well marked must have some goal, and in hopes that he might find shelter at the other end, Ross turned to the left. The trace continued down the slope.
"Guess he's been dead ten thousand years, to say the least. But honest, doesn't he look natural standing there in the ice?" He flashed the light suddenly upon the ice-encased monster, and the jackies jumped, as if they, too, expected to be attacked. "A beautiful corpse, I'd say," exclaimed one of them. "A most remarkable specimen," commented the Doctor.
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