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Updated: June 22, 2025
"Let's get going," he suggested quickly. "It sounds a cinch." They started away in a few minutes more, leaving the body of Targo lying where it had fallen across the river. In half an hour of walking they located without difficulty the huge incline down which the Chemist had fallen when first he came into the ring.
"Only this one door," said the girl. The words brought the Very Young Man to himself with a start. No other way out of the room! He knew that Targo and his men would force their way in very soon. He could not prevent them. But it would take time. The Very Young Man remembered that now he had time to take the chemicals. He put his hand to his armpit and felt the pouch that held the drug.
The Very Young Man saw he was now nearly the same size that Targo was; if anything, the larger. A fallen tree separated them; the Very Young Man cleared it with a bound. Still Targo stood motionless, awaiting his onslaught. Then abruptly he stooped to the ground, and a rock whistled through the air, narrowly missing the Very Young Man's head.
He thought of the chemicals and instinctively his hand went to his armpit. But he knew there was no time for that. He hesitated one brief instant. As he stood rigid Targo stooped swiftly and grasped the dagger in his victim's breast. The girl screamed again, louder this time, and like a mask the Very Young Man's indecision fell from him. He stood alert, clear-headed.
'The master's woman' I heard one say, 'She has the evil magic. And another spoke of Targo. And they say he must not die, or there will be death for those who kill him." Lylda held the boy close as he poured out his breathless frightened words. "No matter, little son," she said tenderly. "To mamita no harm can come you shall see. Did my father teach you well to-day?"
The impact of his weight forced Targo down upon the floor, and losing his balance he fell, with the Very Young Man on top of him. They hit the leg of the table as they rolled over, and something dropped from it to the floor, striking the stone surface with a thud. The knife still stuck in the dead man's body.
"Targo said he he would put her to death," Aura answered with a shudder. "He said she killed his brother to-day." She turned to the Very Young Man impulsively, putting her little hands up on his shoulders. "Oh, my friend," she exclaimed. "You can do something to save my family? Targo is so strong, so cruel. My father " She stopped, and choked back a sob. "Did they say where Lylda was now?"
The little rivulet diverted from its course by the body of Targo, swept past through the woods almost at his side. The noise it made mingled with the ringing in his head. His body ached all over; he closed his eyes. "He's all right now," the Doctor's voice said. "He'll be all right in a moment." The Very Young Man opened his eyes.
Once one of the men laughed a laugh that drifted out into the immense distances of the room in great waves of sound. Aura gripped her companion by the arm. "Then when Targo rules the land, they will send a messenger to my brother.
But even as he said it, he realized it was a futile command. The Very Young Man answered, in a voice so minute it seemed coming from an infinite distance. "I can't stop! I haven't any of the other drug!" They all remembered then. Targo had stolen the Very Young Man's vial of the enlarging drug. It had never been replaced.
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