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Updated: May 9, 2025
She was there Beatrice was there, and they could see her. There, in the clutches of some monster, horrible and foul! Living yet? Dead? "Tell me! Does she live?" "We cannot say, O Kromno. But do not shoot. We will creep close we, ourselves, will slay, and never touch the woman." "No, no! If you do he'll strangle her provided she still lives! Don't go! Wait! Let me think a second."
Yet something must be done, and quickly, for every second, every fraction of a second, was golden. The merest accident might now mean death or life life, if the girl still lived! "Zangamon!" "Yea, master?" "Be very bold! Do my bidding!" "Speak only the word, Kromno, and I obey!" "Go you, then, very quietly, very swiftly, to the other side of these great growing things these trees, we call them.
Hollow, booming, deep, yet rising to a wild shriek of rage and horrid brutality, the beast-cry flung itself through the jungle. And, following it, they heard again that muffled drumming, as though gigantic fists were flailing a tremendous tambour in the darkness. "Master!" whispered Zangamon, recoiling a step. "Oh, Kromno, what is that?"
"We sailed across the Sunken Sea, O Kromno, and reached the islands of the Lanskaarn. There we had to fight and thirty were killed. But we kept on, and in two days, watching for the quiet time between the great tempests, entered the Vortex." "You all got through?" "No master. There was not time. Many were lost; but still we kept on.
"Well, we hadn't been on the ground fifteen minutes before I'm blest if one of my men didn't hear the brushwood crackling to eastward. "'O Kromno, master! said he, clutching my arm, 'there come creatures many creatures through the forest! Let us go! "I listened and heard it, too; and somehow subconsciously, I guess I knew an advance-guard of the Horde was on us! "It was night, of course.
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