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The closest I can come to it is to say that an hour of our time is the equivalent of an hour and five-eighths in Muria. For further information upon this matter of relativity the reader may consult any of the numerous books upon the subject. "Yes, that is true," she said. "How came you here?" Again it was Marakinoff who answered slowly, considering every word.
Obviously the left side of the chamber was a duplicate of that we had explored. We joined. In front of us the columned barriers ran back a hundred feet, forming an alcove. The end of this alcove was another wall of the same rose stone, but upon it the design of vines was much heavier. We took a step forward there was a gasp of awe from the Norseman, a guttural exclamation from Marakinoff.
I felt Marakinoff creep close to me; gripped my nerve and flashed my pocket-light; saw Larry standing, peering, peering ahead, and Huldricksson, one strong arm around his shoulders, bracing him. And then the speed began to slacken. Millions of miles, it seemed, below the sound of the unearthly hurricane I heard Larry's voice, thin and ghostlike, beneath its clamour. "Got it!" shrilled the voice.
The fiendish agency of destruction which Marakinoff had revealed to Larry; the force that cut off gravitation and sent all things within its range racing outward into space! And now over the debris upon the ledge, striking with long sword and daggers, here and there a captain flashing the green ray, moving on in ordered squares, came the soldiers of the Shining One.
And with this strange benediction, he turned back. "For God's sake, Larry," I urged as we approached the house of the priestess, "you'll be careful!" He nodded but I saw with a little deadly pang of apprehension in my heart a puzzled, lurking doubt within his eyes. As we ascended the serpent steps Marakinoff appeared.
"We came for different purposes. I to seek knowledge of a kind; he" pointing to me "of another. This man" he looked at Olaf "to find a wife and child." The grey-blue eyes had been regarding O'Keefe steadily and with plainly increasing interest. "And why did you come?" she asked him. "Nay I would have him speak for himself, if he can," she stilled Marakinoff peremptorily.
The hibiscus, the aloe tree, and a number of small shrubs had found place, but seemed only to intensify its stark loneliness. "Wonder where the Russian can be?" asked Larry. I shook my head. There was no sign of life here. Had Marakinoff gone or had the Dweller taken him, too? Whatever had happened, there was no trace of him below us or on any of the islets within our range of vision.
We had learned, too, that every forge and artisan had been put to work to make an armour Marakinoff had devised to withstand the natural battle equipment of the frog-people and both Larry and I had a disquieting faith in the Russian's ingenuity. At any rate the numbers against us would be lessened.
And only I could have noticed Larry's shrinking, his microscopic hesitation before he took it, and his involuntary movement, as though to shake off something unclean, when the clasp had ended. Marakinoff, without another look at me, turned and went quickly within. The guards took their places. I looked at Larry inquiringly. "Don't ask a thing now, Doc!" he said tensely. "Wait till we get home.
I took certain precautions, and on the first night of this full moon I hid myself within the vault of Chau-ta-leur." An involuntary thrill of admiration for the man went through me at the manifest heroism of this leap in the dark. I could see it reflected in Larry's face. "I hid in the vault," continued Marakinoff, "and I saw that which comes from here come out. I waited long hours.
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