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Updated: May 9, 2025
Then suddenly, with yells, it dissolved into confusion of its component parts; and at a run the People of the Abyss swarmed to the greeting of their kinsmen and their own, the colonists. Barbarians as the folk still were, they met with a vociferous affection. A regular tangi, or joy-wailing, followed, and all crowded vociferously about Stern, with hails of "Kromno!
"It is in readiness the house of the Kromno. Your word is our law. It shall be as you have spoken." "That is good. Now it is my will that this air-boat on which I ride should be carried close up to the walls and carefully covered with mantles, especially this part," and he gestured at the engines. "After that I rest." "So it shall be," Vreenya made answer, while the Folk listened.
See, all things are going on, as before, in the colony!" She gestured toward the lower caves, whence the sounds of smithy-work and other toil drifted upward. "All is yet well with us. Only our Kromno is away. And he will yet come! He will come back to us to the child, to you, to all who love and obey him!" Beatrice seized the old woman's hand and kissed it in a burst of gratitude.
This problem still remains for further investigation. "July 4, our national holiday, a viva-voce election and Council of the Elders was held. They still insist on choosing me as Kromno. I weary of the task, and would gladly give it over to some younger man.
"The mistress and old Gesafam, the aged woman, skilled in all maladies! Come swiftly, O Kromno!" Allan started, dropped his lantern, and turned very white. "You mean " "Yea, master! Come!" He found Beatrice in bed, the bronze lamp shining on her face, pale as his own. "Come, boy!" she whispered. "Let me kiss you just once before before " He knelt, and on her brow his lips seemed to burn.
He flung it, with the dart still adhering, down over the cliff. "Look, Frumuos!" he commanded. "Search carefully and see if there be any scratch on the skin!" The man obeyed, making a minute inspection through his mica eye-shields. Then he shook his head. "No, Kromno," he answered. "I see nothing. But the arrow came near, near!" Stern, tremendously relieved, gestured toward the caves.
She realized she was safe and I was with her again; that sufficed. Was there ever another woman like her since the world began?" Only now that the girl slept did he pay attention to the two Merucaans who, sitting by the cave door, were regarding him with troubled looks. "Master!" said Zangamon, arising and coming toward him. "Well, what is it now?" "You are wounded, O Kromno!
"It seems a man, yet it is different, master. It is all hair, and very thick and strong, and hideous! Do not shoot, O Kromno!" "Why not?" "Behold! That strange man-thing holds the woman, Beatrice, in his left arm. Of a truth, you may kill her, and not the enemy." Allan steadied himself against a palm. His brain seemed whirling, and for a moment all grew vague and like a dream.
Then on the fourth day we reached the great cleft, even as our traditions said. And here we camped, and sang again, and once more swore to find you. Then the boats all returned, and we pushed forward, upward, through the cleft." "And then?" Rigvin shook his head and sighed. "O Kromno," he answered, "the story is too long! We be weary, and would reach the place whereof ye have told us.
No platform was there for their Kromno to speak from. He had not even a block of stone. In the true native style he was expected to address them on their own level, pacing back and forth the while. In his early days among them he had seen one or two such gatherings. His quick wit prompted a close imitation of their ceremonies and ancient customs.
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