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And now a stab of joy thrilled through him as he realized that in his muscles lay at least a force to balk the savage for a little while. To Stern came back his wrestling lore of the very long ago, the days of Harvard, in the dim, vanished past. He freed his left arm from the gorilla-like grip of Kamrou, and, quick as lightning, got a jiu-jitsu stranglehold.
"Daughter," said he, "it is now ten sleeping times nights, the English speech calls them, if I remember what my grandfather taught me since the battle. And my son, here, still lies weak and sick. I go soon to get still other plants for him. Stronger plants, to make him well and powerful again. For there is haste now haste!" "You mean Kamrou?" "Yea, Kamrou!
Oddly enough there recurred to his mind, as he drew near the waiting, sneering Kamrou, that brave old war-cry of the Greeks of Xenophon as they hurled themselves against the vastly greater army of the Persians "Zeus Sotor kai Nike! Zeus Savior and victory!" The shout burst from his lips.
And now, father, you get these men here to work again, or there'll be some sudden deaths round here!" "Hearken, O my son! Already the feast of welcome to Kamrou is beginning, around the flame. See now, the boat of his messenger is close at hand, bidding all those in this party to hasten in, for homage. Kamrou will not endure divided power. Trust me now and I can save you yet.
Surely, thought he, some of the many Folk that he and the girl had saved from butchery, some to whom they had taught the rudiments of the world's lost arts, would now show pity on them would stand by them now! But no; not one face of all that multitude now that Kamrou had returned evinced other than eager interest to see the end of everything.
"What the devil now?" shouted Stern. "You all gone crazy, or what?" He turned appealingly to the old man. "For Heaven's sake, what's up?" he cried. "Tell me, can't you, before the idiots drop my machine and ruin the whole thing? What " "Misfortune, O my son!" cried the patriarch in a strange, trembling voice. "The worst that could befall! In our absence he has come back he, Kamrou!
He shuddered slightly despite himself, for to his mind arose the ever-present possibility of the Folk's custom of trial by combat the chance that some rebellious one might challenge him that the outcome might another time turn against him. He remembered still the scream of Kamrou as the deposed chieftain had plunged into the boiling pool. What if this fate should some time yet be his?
My reckoning was that Kamrou and his men would stay beyond the Great Vortex, at their labor, until after " "Kamrou?" shouted Stern again. "What the deuce do I care about him? Who is he, anyhow? A Lanskaarn, or " The girl seized Allan's hand. "Oh, listen, listen!" she implored. "Did you know about this? And never told me?" "Allan, he said our work could all be done before they "
Already super-excited by the labors of the day and by the nervous strain of having recovered the sunken biplane, all this talk of Kamrou, all this persistent opposition just at the most inauspicious moment worked powerfully upon his irritated nerves. Cool reason would have dictated diplomacy, parley, and, if possible, truce.
He knew the pit was very close now; dully he heard its steady bubbling. "If I go he goes, too!" the engineer swore to himself. "He'll never have Beatrice anyway!" Over and over they rolled, their grips tight-locked as steel. Now Kamrou was on top, now Stern. But the chief's muscles were still strong as ever; Stern's already had begun to weaken.
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