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Updated: June 14, 2025
Only by the most fortuitous of circumstances did we escape complete annihilation the first moment we appeared within range. We had no idea what lay ahead although the guides we had brought with us from the Lone City informed us we were nearing our destination and the scene remained in complete darkness until we were hardly more than five miles outside Tao's stronghold.
It would result in the needless destruction of human life. In this controversy the government of the Light Country remained neutral. But the women finally won, and Tao and his followers, a number of them men of science, were all banished by the government, under pressure of popular sentiment, into the Twilight Country. Here Tao's project fell upon fertile soil.
These, however, were for the most part of the poorer, more ignorant classes, or those more adventurous, less scrupulous individuals to whom the prospect of sudden riches appealed. "Why doesn't your government just throw Tao's men out if they're causing so much trouble?" I asked. "They never should have been allowed in the country at all." Miela smiled sadly. "That is so, my husband.
Its two or three bamboo ribs were as flexible as a whip, with the veiling it was hardly more than that fluttering below them almost entirely unsupported. In weight, the whole approximated one-twelfth that of a girl, not at all a difficult amount to carry. Within two hours after the report came it was near midday we were ready to start from the Great City to repel Tao's attack.
"There Tao's men are very strong, our girls report. And to-day there was a fight among the people, and several were killed." "But we must go armed, Miela, with more than one light-ray. I shall see this Fuero to-morrow. After all, he's the key-note to the whole thing." We started from the castle roof, Miela sitting with me this time on the platform.
Mercer jumped for the projector, but I was nearer, and in a moment I had flashed it on. "It's Tao!" Mercer shouted. "He " It was one of Tao's interplanetary vehicles, rising slowly in a great arc above us.
But now, upon Tao's return, the news of his venture, as told by the emissaries he sent to the Light Country, struck its people like a bombshell. These emissaries all men had come to the Great City, and, finding their presence tolerated by the authorities, had immediately started haranguing the people. The men were inclined to listen, and many of them openly declared their sympathy with Tao.
I noticed at once some mechanism over its stern. We had come up quietly to make sure no one was about. Now we hid ourselves close to the boat and waited with apprehension in our hearts for the arrival of Anina with Tao's men. Half an hour, perhaps, went by. The silence in this secluded spot hung heavy about us.
He will ask that we of the Light Country allow you to remain here in peace among us. And this captive earth man of Tao's" she laid her hand lightly on Mercer's shoulder "he will ask, too, that he be given sanctuary among us. Our people still are kindly most of them and they will see the justice of what he asks."
Of Mercer and Anina there was no sign. We waited until well after the time of the evening meal, and still Mercer and Anina did not arrive. We concluded, of course, that they had followed Tao's men up the trail for some reason, and we expected it would be Anina who would come back to tell us where Mercer was. "Let us go up a little distance," Miela suggested finally.
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