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Updated: June 4, 2025
Her face was pale and her eyes were wonderful to look upon. With a gasp of thankfulness, I noticed that the blood on her breast was but a narrow streak Juba, staring at her, slowly withdrew his foot from his prostrate opponent, and Ingra first sat up, and then got upon his feet. Ala, who had been seated, rose at the same moment, and looked Ingra straight in the face.
I'll " But he could not finish his sentence for gnashing his teeth. We calmed him as best we could and then summoned an air ship. While we waited, Edmund suddenly put his hand in his pocket, and withdrawing it quickly, said, with a bitter smile: "What a fool I have been in my carelessness. Ingra has had the key abstracted from my pocket by some thief. That explains how he got the car open."
But there was at least one person present who accepted the decision with a bad grace Ingra. He had been sure of victory in his incomprehensible persecution of us, he had played a master card, and now his disappointment was written upon his face. With surprise, I saw Ala approach him, smiling, and I was convinced that she was trying to persuade him to cease his opposition.
Here the car was allowed to settle gently upon the ground, and all alighted. Ingra, over whom the influence of the champagne had been growing, tottered on his legs in a way that would have filled Jack with uncontrollable delight, but Edmund gravely helped him out of the car and steadied him to a seat on the soft turf under the tree.
At last it began to circle, as if an uncertainty concerning the route to be chosen had arisen, and I observed, for we could look all about in spite of our bonds, that Ingra and one who appeared to be his lieutenant were engaged in an animated discussion. They pointed this way and that, and the debate grew every moment more earnest.
"Well, Edmund," interposed Jack, "I've no doubt it's all as you say, and I'd like to know just enough of their speechless speech to tell Ingra what he ought to hear; and if I understood their music, I'd play him a dead march, sure." "But," continued Edmund, disregarding Jack's interruption, "mark me, there's something else behind all this.
Presently a sonorous sign startled us, followed by a sticky, tramping sound. "In God's name, what's that?" exclaimed Jack. "We'll see," said Edmund quietly, and threw open his pocket lantern. As the light streamed out there was a rustle in the branches above us, and the form of an air ship pushed into view. Ingra! No, it was not Ingra!
I need hardly say that it was Edmund who first drew this inference, and when its full meaning burst upon my mind I shuddered at the hellish design which Ingra evidently entertained. Plainly, he meant to throw us into the morass, either to drown in the foul water, whose miasma now assailed our nostrils, or to starve amidst the fens!
Jack felt around in the dark and got me by the hand, giving it a hearty pressure. "Remember Ala," he said. "She's our friend, or Edmund's, and they'll bring us out of this. You want to brace up." "Remember Ingra!" I responded with a shiver, and I could feel Jack start at the words. "Hang him!" he muttered. "If I'd only finished him when I had the drop!" After that neither spoke.
Blood instantly stained the floor around him, and Ingra, with a bound, dropping a long knife, attained the door of a nearby chamber, and was out of sight before I could even start to pursue him. Nevertheless, I ran after him, but quickly became involved in a labyrinth where it was useless to continue the search, and where I nearly lost my way.
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