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Instead, he looked me over, long and earnestly, and at the end he shook his head sorrowfully and sighed: "Thou art the sort of a son I would have had, Strokor, given the wits of thy father to hold a woman like thy mother. And thou didst save my life." He mused a little longer, then roused himself and spake sharply: "Thou art a vain man, Strokor!" "Aye," I agreed, willingly enough.
I will attend to it at once." He sat thinking for some time longer. "Has thought of any woman in special, Strokor?" said he. I had not. The idea was too new to me. "The best in the world shall be mine, of course," I told him. "But as for which one hast any notion thyself?" "Aye," he quoth. "'Tis my own niece I have in mind.
"What means it, Strokor?" asked he again, meanwhile stripping himself in a businesslike fashion that it were good to see. "It means," said I, throwing off my robe, "that I have unchained the magnetism of this world.
"Hail, Strokor!" it said; and great was my astonishment as I recognized the tones of Edam, the young dreamer whom Maka had brought to my house. "Edam!" I cried. "What do ye here? Come and open these bars!" He made no reply, save to laugh in a way I did not like. I shook the grating savagely, so that I felt it give. "Edam!" I roared. "Open this grating at once; and tell me, where is Ave?"
"Ye are right; I need to decide upon a life-purpose. What have ye thought?" The old man was greatly pleased. "Our talk with Edam brought it all before me. Know you, Strokor, that the survival of the fittest is a rule which governs man as well as men. It applies to the entire population, Strokor, just as truly as to me or thee.
The tale was not told it was BELLOWED; and this is how it ran: I am Strokor, son of Strok, the armorer. I am Strokor, a maker of tools of war; Strokor, the mightiest man in the world; Strokor, whose wisdom outwitted the hordes of Klow; Strokor, who has never feared, and never failed. Let him who dares, dispute it. I I am Strokor! In my youth I was, as now, the marvel of all who saw.
"Aye," he replied, not at all boldly, but what some call modestly. "I prophesied the armistice which now stands between our empire and Klow's." "Is this true?" I demanded of Maka. The old man bowed his head gravely and looked upon the young man with far more respect than I felt. He added: "Tell Strokor the dream thou hadst two nights ago, Edam. It were a right strange thing, whether true or no."
I full expected him to shrink from me in fear; I was able to crush him with one blow. But he stood his ground; nay, stepped forward and laid a hand easily upon my shoulder. "Strokor ye are more than a man; ye are two men in one. There is no finer I say it fair. And yet, I doubt not that there can be, and will be, a better!"
"Nay," she answered, with a laugh in her voice. "Rather I would go with Edam here. I would go," she finished, her voice rising in her excitement, "away from this horrible man's world; away from it all, Strokor, and to Jeos! Hear ye? To Jeos! And " But at that instant I burst through the grating. Without a sound I charged straight for the pair of them.
With the chiefs out of the way, and my own men taking their commands, the whole army fell into my hands. True, there were some insurrections here and there; but my men handled them with such speed and harshness that any further stubbornness turned to admiration. By this time the fame of Strokor was spread throughout the empire.
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