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She pointed to Olaf. "Neither this man, nor this," said Larry, "shall be harmed. This is my word, Yolara!" "Even so," she answered quietly, "my lord!" I saw Marakinoff stare at O'Keefe with a new and curiously speculative interest. Lugur's eyes grew hellish; he raised his arms as though to strike her. Larry's pistol prodded him rudely enough. "No rough stuff now, kid!" said O'Keefe in English.
"Heed!" she whispered. She turned to the men in green, who were laughing softly among themselves. "Take these two, and go!" she commanded. "The justice of Lora," said the red dwarf. "The justice of Lora and the Shining One under Thanaroa!" Upon the utterance of the last word I saw Marakinoff start violently.
We returned to the Chamber of the Pool. The pillars of light were fainter, and we knew that the moon was sinking. On the world outside before long dawn would be breaking. I began to feel thirst and the blue semblance of water within the silvery rim seemed to glint mockingly as my eyes rested on it. "Da!" it was Marakinoff, reading my thoughts uncannily. "Da! We will be thirsty.
Before me was the Pacific, smooth and blue and smiling. And not far away, cast up on the strand even as I had been, was Marakinoff! He lay there, broken and dead indeed. Yet all the waters through which we had passed not even the waters of death themselves could wash from his face the grin of triumph. With the last of my strength I dragged the body from the strand and pushed it out into the waves.
"Who are you strangers, and how came you here?" She turned to Rador. "Or is it that they do not understand our tongue?" "One understands and speaks it but very badly, O Yolara," answered the green dwarf. "Speak, then, that one of you," she commanded. But it was Marakinoff who found his voice first, and I marvelled at the fluency, so much greater than mine, with which he spoke.
If you will take my arm, please, I am shaken yet, yes " I gripped his shoulder without a word, and the two of us set off down the corridor after O'Keefe. Marakinoff was gasping, and his weight pressed upon me heavily, but he moved with all the will and strength that were in him. As we ran I took hasty note of the tunnel.
Huldricksson's laboured breathing ceased, his head dropped upon Larry's knee, and from his arms and hands the whiteness swiftly withdrew. Marakinoff arose and contemplated us almost benevolently. "He will all right be in five minutes," he said. "I know. I do it to pay for that shot of mine, and also because we will need him. Yes." He turned to Larry.
He glanced at me curiously. "Some talk there has been that the stranger who came with you, Double Tongue, was making new death tools for Lugur," he ended. Marakinoff! The Russian at work already in this storehouse of devastating energies, fashioning the weapons for his plots! The Apocalyptic vision swept back upon me "He is not dead." Lakla's voice was poignant.
"If you will not open, needs must we open for you!" Over the bridge was marching a long double file of the dwarfs. They bore a smoothed and handled tree-trunk whose head was knobbed with a huge ball of metal. Past the priestess, past the Shining One, they carried it; fifty of them to each side of the ram; and behind them stepped Marakinoff! Larry awoke to life.
But this gateway in the rock where is it?" "After we passed, it closed upon us; nor could we after find trace of it," answered Marakinoff. The incredulity that had shown upon the face of the green dwarf fell upon theirs; on Lugur's it was clouded with furious anger. He turned to Rador. "I could find no opening, lord," said the green dwarf quickly.
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