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Updated: May 11, 2025
The hammering, much more distinct now, heavy, thudding blows, came from a room in the front the connection between the cellar and the house, as shown on the Tocsin's plan, was through another trapdoor in the floor of the kitchen. Jimmie Dale's flashlight played on a short, ladderlike stairway, and in an instant he was climbing upward.
Before swinging the heavy standard aloft, he freed it from the lamps, which struck the floor with a clanging noise. The man to whom he dealt a blow with this ponderous implement would forget to rise. Then, as if running for a prize in the gymnasium, he rushed through the darkness to the staircase, and with breathless haste groped his way down the narrow, ladderlike steps.
More shoutings and whip-crackings. A long, slanting, ladderlike arm arose. It teetered, and a man with a lurid purple cloak rose with it at its very end. The ship's air lock opened and a crewman threw a rope. The purple-cloaked man caught it and made it fast. From somewhere inside the ship of space the line was hauled in. The end of the landing ramp touched the sill of the air lock.
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