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Updated: June 27, 2025
Of nearly three hundred strong and well-fed men who had said good-bye to liberty at the Pillar of Farewells, only a hundred and twenty pallid and emaciated wretches stood shivering in their rags and chains when the muster was called on the morning after their arrival at Kara. Mazanoff and his escort had carried out their part of the sentence of Natas to the letter.
"No, gentlemen, I am too old a sailor to be taken in by a yarn like that. I believe this letter to be a forgery, and I will not give the air-ship up on its authority." "That is your last word, is it?" asked Mazanoff, white with passion, but still forcing himself to speak coolly.
On the first suspicion of any attempt to escape you will know what to do. You have both handled your ships splendidly." Mazanoff saluted formally, more for the sake of effect than anything else, and descended again to carry out his orders.
"Order arms, and keep silence!" said the officer, and then he advanced alone from the crowd and said "Who are you, and what is your errand?" "Alexis Mazanoff, late prisoner of the Tsar, and now commander of the Terrorist air-ship Ariel.
Although the railway extended as far as Tomsk, Mazanoff made them disembark here, and marched them by the Great Siberian road to the Pillar of Farewells on the Asiatic frontier. There, as so many thousands of heart-broken, despairing men and women had done before them, they looked their last on Russian soil.
"That is all I have to say at present in the name of the Master. And now, Alexis Mazanoff, it is time you set out. We shall remain here and discuss every detail fully so that nothing may be overlooked. You will find that everything has been provided for in the instructions you have, so go, and may the Master of Destiny be with you!"
It went sorely against the grain of the servant of the Tsar to acquiesce in the demand of an outlaw, but there was nothing else for it. The outlaw could blow him and all his subordinates into space with a pressure of his finger; and so he sent an orderly with a request for the presence of the professor. Meanwhile Mazanoff continued
If you can get any newspapers, do so." "I understand fully," replied Mazanoff, and a minute later his vessel was sinking rapidly down towards the cruiser.
My assistant I told him" "What did you tell him, Professor?" said Mazanoff sternly, grasping him suddenly by the arm. "I told him not to open the other cylinder." "And he has done so, and paid for his disobedience with his life," said Mazanoff calmly. "Console yourself, my dear sir! He has only saved me the trouble of destroying your laboratory.
Begone! for you have looked your last on freedom. You are no longer men; you are outcasts from the pale of the brotherhood of the humanity you have outraged! "Alexis Mazanoff, you will hold yourself responsible for the lives of the prisoners, and the execution of their sentence. You will see them in safe keeping for the present, and on the thirtieth day from now you will set out for Siberia."
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