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For him there who plots with Lugur" she pointed at Marakinoff, and I saw Yolara start "they have no need. Into his heart the Silent Ones have looked; and Lugur and you may keep him, Yolara!" There was honeyed venom in the last words. Yolara was herself now; only the edge of shrillness on her voice revealed her wrath as she answered.
"But if there's a way in, there's a way out. Anyway, Doc, we're right in the pew we've been heading for so why worry?" He grinned at me cheerfully. The man on the floor groaned, and he dropped to his knees beside him. "Marakinoff!" he cried. At my exclamation he moved aside, turning the face so I could see it.
Let us put together our knowledge and our brains and resources and even a poonch of a mule is a resource," he looked wickedly at O'Keefe, "and pull our boat into quiet waters again. After that " "All very well, Marakinoff," interjected Larry, "but I don't feel very safe in any boat with somebody capable of shooting me through the back." Marakinoff waved a deprecatory hand.
The face of the terrace was about ten feet high, and all over it ran a bas-relief of what looked like short-trailing vines, surmounted by five stalks, on the tip of each of which was a flower. We passed along the terrace. It turned in an abrupt curve. I heard a hail, and there, fifty feet away, at the curving end of a wall identical with that where we stood, were Larry and Marakinoff.
Then, when the tempest of hate had ended in seething Lara, how, thrilled with victory, armed with the weapons of those they had slain, they had lifted the Shadow, passed through the Portal, met and slaughtered the fleeing remnants of Yolara's men only to find the tempest stilled here, too. But of Marakinoff they had seen nothing!
"Not only did I see it, but hardly had I time to make escape through the entrance before it passed whirling and murmuring and its bell sounds all joyous. Da! It was what you call the squeak close, that." "Wait a moment," I said stilling Larry with a gesture. "Do I understand you to say that you were within this place?" Marakinoff actually beamed upon me. "Da, Dr.
"But you'll carry nothing out of here!" shrieked Marakinoff. "No!" My foot, darting out behind me, touched vacancy. The roaring of the racing stream deafened me. I felt its mists about me; threw myself forward. I was falling falling with the Russian's hand strangling me. I struck water, sank; the hands that gripped my throat relaxed for a moment their clutch.
A little billow ran up, coiled about it, and carried it away, ducking and bending. Another seized it, and another, playing with it. It floated from my sight that which had been Marakinoff, with all his schemes to turn our fair world into an undreamed-of-hell. My strength began to come back to me.
She glanced at O'Keefe and smiled. Her eyes were ablaze with little dancing points of light; her body seemed to palpitate, the rounded delicate muscles beneath the translucent skin to run with joyful little eager waves! Larry whistled softly. "There's Marakinoff!" he said. I looked where he pointed.
"Trolldom!" croaked the voice of Olaf. "Chert!" This from Marakinoff. "What a space!" "Have you considered, Dr. Goodwin," he went on after a pause, "a curious thing? We know, or, at least, is it not that nine out of ten astronomers believe, that the moon was hurled out of this same region we now call the Pacific when the earth was yet like molasses; almost molten, I should say.
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