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In this movement Miela's mother, Lua, was a leader. To overcome this masculine desire for physical superiority and dominance which he had had for centuries seemed practically impossible.
Lattice covered the windows, but it was like trying to sleep at midday; and the heat and heaviness of the air oppressed me. I dropped off finally, to be awakened by Miela's voice calling me to breakfast. We sat down to the morning meal at a low table set with shining plates and goblets of copper, or whatever the metal was, and napery of silk.
We could make much better speed, I knew, than the Mercutians. "We'll get them all, Ollie," I shouted at Mercer. "They're not far ahead. See up there Miela's evidently over them now." We came up to them after a few hundred yards. It was the old man, and one of those whom I had first encountered.
It seemed now, in many places, to be like a soft, chalky limestone, which ran in pockets and seams between strata of very hard rock. I called Miela's attention to it once, and she pointed out a number of irregular shaped, small masses of a substance which in daylight I assumed might be yellow. These were embedded in the soft limestone. "Sulphur," she said. "Like that on your earth.
The queen, following Miela's commands unquestioningly, took the little prince by the hand and, signing to me to follow, led me upstairs. There was only one stairway leading to the roof, I found with satisfaction, and it was narrow an excellent place for defense. The roof was broad and flat, flanked at the ends by two towers which rose considerably above it.
"That'll smoke 'em out," declared Mercer, waving his hand again toward the cliff. "I ask you now, won't that smoke 'em out?" "Tao's men yes." Miela's face was grave as she answered Mercer's triumphant question. "It will do that, Ollie. Kill them all, of a certainty; but that whole city there " Mercer stared at his feet, toying idly with the little torch in his hand.
Lua must be found, and I had no idea of relying entirely upon this little chief of police to find her. And Mercer needed me, too, this very evening. I stood up wearily and put my arm about Miela's shoulders. Her little body drooped against mine, her head resting on my shoulder.
I called Miela's attention to it the obscure figure of a man standing against a huge palm trunk. As we watched the figure stepped into plainer view. I saw then it was a man, evidently looking down at us. I stood up. There was no one else in sight except a woman on the roof of the other house holding an infant. Something about the man's figure seemed vaguely familiar; my heart leaped suddenly.
"And certainly she has been a wonderful pupil." He patted Miela's hand affectionately; but I noticed then that his eyes were very sad, as though from some unvoiced trouble or apprehension. They had decided, the professor said, to keep the girl's presence a secret from the world until they had learned from her in detail what her mission was.
"Miela," I whispered, "ask for food. Tell her we have had nothing for many hours. Perhaps she will loosen our bonds a little to let us eat. We may be able to do something then." The woman answered Miela's pleading by setting us up side by side, with our backs against the wall. She placed food before us, and then, with a knife, cut the cords that bound our arms.
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