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Updated: May 13, 2025
The sand-barren itself, where he had been obliged to abandon the machine, lay in a kind of broad valley, flanked on one hand by cliffs, while the other sloped gradually upward to the foot-hills of the double mountain in question.
Back of this foreshore, countless miles of waving grass, rooted in water, and with a stray clump of low trees, dotted here and there, the Everglades, a vast marsh that runs north to the inland sea known as Lake Okeechobee. Then the solid sandy ground of the main State. Along the foreshore, and running inland, miles of sand-barren scattered with gaunt pines and floored with harsh palmetto-scrub.
And before long their evening meal was in course of preparation, close by a great glacial boulder at the edge of the sand-barren. In good comradeship they ate, then wheeled the biplane over to the rock, and under the shelter of its wide-spreading wings made their camp for the night.
And when, five minutes later, having chosen a clear and sand-barren on the verge, some two miles southward along the abyss, Stern brought the machine to earth, they felt a gratitude and a relief not to be voiced in words.
And the Horde, the one greatest peril that has dogged us ever since those days in the tower, has been swept out with the besom of flame!" "Which has also surely destroyed the machine, even if they haven't!" she exclaimed, using every possible argument to discourage him. "I hardly think so," he judged. "You see, I left it in a wide sand-barren.
"I allow it was the closest shave you'll ever have agin," Parsons replied grimly; "an' I'm free to say that them as are sich fools as to cross this 'ere sand-barren afoot oughter stay on it, like as you were in a fair way of doin' before we come along." "An' that's what daddy would say, I s'pose.
My search-light was still burning, throwing a powerful white glare into the thicket about a quarter-mile away, beyond the sand-barren where I had taken earth. I turned it off, for I remembered how much better the Folk could see without artificial light in our night atmosphere. "'Tell me, do you see anything? I whispered. "The other fellow pointed. "'There, there! he exclaimed. 'Little people!
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