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Alas, no, friends; they are not hospitable, my people. I fear me; I fear me greatly that that " He did not finish, but stood there blinking his sightless eyes, as though with some vast effort of the will he might gain knowledge of their features. Then, very deftly, he ran his fingers over Stern's bearded face. Upon the engineer's lips his digits paused a second.
She, magnificently unafraid on the quivering back of this huge airdragon, showed the splendid excitement of the moment by the sparkle of her glance, the rush of eloquent blood to her cheeks. Stern's achievement, typical of the invincible conquest of the human soul over matter, time and space, thrilled her with unspeakable pride.
The canoe backed, while Stern took up the slack again. When the pull from below was vertical he ordered the boat stopped. "Now get nine other boats close in here," commanded he. The old man gave the order. And presently nine canoes stood in near at hand, while all the rest lay irregularly grouped about them. Now Stern's plan of the tenfold cable developed itself.
But though their outward guise was that of savages far cruder than the North American Indian was when Columbus first beheld him, yet in their brains lay all the splendid inheritance of a world-civilization. And as the fire-materials in Stern's sack contained, in germ, all the mechanic arts, so their joint intelligence presaged everything that yet might be.
At sound of that word a startled cry broke from the lips of Stern's elder boatman, a cry which, taken up from boat to boat, drifted dully through the fog, traversed the whole fleet of strange, slow-moving craft, and lost itself in the vague gloom. "Merucaans! Merucaans!" the shout arose, with other words whereof Stern knew not the meaning; and closer pressed the outlying boats.
Outside, Beatrice heard the click-click-click of his iron staff upon the smooth and flinty rock floor. And to her ears, mingled with the far roaring of the flame, drifted the words: "Woe, woe to him! Woe to us all woe woe!" Under the ministering care of Beatrice and the patriarch, Stern's convalescence was rapid.
Under Stern's direction, half a dozen men crossed the pools in boats, descended the north bank of the river, and got hold of the cut bridge cables. Stern shot a thin line over to them by means of a bow and arrow. With this they pulled a stouter cord across, and finally a strong cable. All hands together soon brought the bridge once more up the cliff, where it was lashed to its old moorings.
The howls, cries, shrieks, blows were not to be mistaken. Stern's resolution was instant. "I'm with you, old man!" he shouted. "But remember your promise. And if you fail me it's your finish! "Come, Beta! Stick close to me! If we fall, we'll go down together. It's both or neither. Come on come on!"
Beatrice had leaned her head upon her arms, along the gunwale of the other canoe which now was running parallel to Stern's, and he knew the girl was weeping. "There, there!" he cried to her. "Don't you be afraid, little girl! I've got my automatic yet; I can feel it under me, as I lie here in this infernal boat. They haven't taken yours away?" "No!" she answered, raising her head again.
Yes, for a certainty, now he could make out the seething plunge of the waters as they roared into the foam-lashed flood below. But how could this be? Stern's wonder sought to grasp analysis of the strange phenomenon. "If it's true that the water at the bottom's rising," thought he, "then there must either be some kind of tide in that body of water or else the cavity itself must be filling up.
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