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She decided to add to the scene. "I have been away from my people for many days," and she held up one hand with the five fingers spread out, opening and closing them four times, to indicate twenty. "Ye came over the edge of the world!" marveled Somat. "It were a dangerous thing to do, stranger!" "Aye," agreed Holla, "but less dangerous than that from which I fled.
Fortunately the band was so worn that both edges were nearly sharp, thus corresponding with the knifelike ridge over which she had crawled. "Now," Somat went on, "ye and your people live on the inner face of the world," indicating the surface next his skin, "while I and my kind live on the outer face. Were it not for the difficulties of making the trip, we should have found you out ere this."
And within a very short time the whole world was governed by the working class!" So this was what the Venusians had meant when they wrote that Sanus was ruled by the workers! "What became of these rebellions?" Rolla asked, little understanding what it meant, but curious anyhow. "Devastation!" stated Somat solemnly. He waved a hand, to include all that lay within the ruined city.
"And," pursued Rolla, "will ye give me the magic stone, that I may take the flowing blossoms back to my people, and release my loved one from the masters' cruelty?" The great question was put! Rolla waited in tremulous anxiety for the answer. "Aye, stranger!" replied Somat vigorously. "More; ye shall have some of the little sticks!" Whereupon Rolla leaped to her feet and danced in sheer delight.
"That is, of course, if the woman is telling the truth." "And I think she is," declared the young fellow at the foot of the table. "It makes me feel pretty small, to think that none of us ever had the nerve to make the trip; while she, ignorant as she is, dared it all and succeeded!" "You forget, Sorplee," reminded Somat, "that such people are far hardier than we.
However," impatiently, "give me the food ye promised; I can talk after my stomach be filled." "Of a surety," replied Somat apologetically. "I were too interested to remember thy hunger." He spoke a word or two, and one of his companions brought another stool, also dishes and table utensils. Whereupon the watchers on the earth got a first-class surprise.
In the end he was made to agree not to tell her. "We aren't going to let you and your idealism spoil our only chance to save the race!" Sorplee told him pugnaciously; and Somat gave his word.
Somat humored her childlike view-point. "We have the seed of the flower, too," said he. He secured a box of matches from a shelf, and showed her the "little sticks." "Exactly what the angel showed me!" jubilated Holla. "I have come to the right place!" Back she went to her food, her face radiant, and all her lurking suspicion of the twelve completely gone.
"I seek," Rolla replied, "food and rest. I have traveled far and am weary." "Ye look it," commented the man. His name, Rolla found out later, was Somat. "Ye shall have both food and rest. However, whence came ye?" "From the other side of the world," answered Rolla calmly. Instantly she noted that the twelve became greatly excited when Somat translated her statement.
We have little heart for the work. Of what use is it, with no women to start the race afresh?" Rolla started despite herself. Was this the reason why she, despite her savagery, had been made so welcome? "Ye have not told me," said she hurriedly, "why ye and the others all wear such curious garments when ye eat." Somat was taken off his guard.
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