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In a few moments the moving platform began to slow down. It stopped in a closed chamber no larger than itself. Rador drew his poniard and struck twice upon the wall with its hilt. Immediately a panel moved away, revealing a space filled with faint, misty blue radiance.
The driver touched the lever; a stream of coruscations flew from the ball down into the cylinder. The shell started smoothly, and as the tiny torrent of shining particles increased it gathered speed. "The corial does not touch the road," explained Rador. "It is lifted so far" he held his forefinger and thumb less than a sixteenth of an inch apart "above it."
"As for this man, the sailor, do as you please with him, Lugur; always remembering that I have given my word that he shall join that wife and babe of his!" She laughed sweetly, sinisterly. "And now take them, Rador give them food and drink and let them rest till we shall call them again." She stretched out a hand toward O'Keefe. The Irishman bowed low over it, raised it softly to his lips.
Suddenly I felt, well, a little superfluous. "If you don't mind," I said, "I think I'll go up the path there again and look about." But they were so engrossed with each other that they did not even hear me so I walked away, up to the embrasure where Rador had taken me. The movement of the batrachians over the bridge had ceased. Dimly at the far end I could see the cluster of the garrison.
We passed through the lines to the corial standing like a great shell at the end of the runway leading into the green road. "Wait you here," he said curtly to the driver. The green dwarf ascended to his seat, sought the lever and we swept on on and out upon the glistening obsidian. Then Rador faced us and laughed. "Larree," he cried, "I love you for that spirit of yours!
Each, I now noted, had the same clustering black hair of Rador.
"Let the three be taken now by Rador to the temple and given to the High Priest Sator" thus Lugur "until what we have planned comes to pass." Rador gripped the base of the globe; abruptly it ceased its spinning. He turned to us as though to speak and even as he did so its bell note sounded peremptorily and on it the colour films began to creep at their accustomed pace.
For the first time she seemed to recognize our presence, stared at us a moment, then through us, and turned to O'Keefe. "Go, now!" she said. "Soon Rador shall come for you. Then well, after that let happen what will!" She smiled once more at him so sweetly; turned toward the figures upon the great globe; sank upon her knees before them.
Into the green dwarf's poise crept a curious, almost a listening, alertness. He leaped to Serku's side. "I go with you," I heard. "Some little I can tell you " They were gone. "Fine work!" muttered Larry. "Nominated for a citizen of Ireland when we get out of this, one Rador of "
They dropped back through the curtains. "Do you like them?" he asked us. "Some chickens!" said Larry. "They delight the heart," he translated for Rador. The green dwarf's next remark made me gasp. "They are yours," he said.
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