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Updated: May 5, 2025
"They're coming from the Queen termite's den and we don't want to blunder in there!" They about-faced, and moved with the workers till they came to the nearest passage branching away from the avenue on which the file marched. Denny dabbed at his forehead. "Lucky those things came in time to warn us," he said.
"The one we have just examined appears to be formed of earth, kneaded up with a kind of gum which the insect secretes. In the subterranean passages of a termite's nest there are arches which seem to be composed of morsels of wood stuck together by some sticky matter. These insects are omnivorous, and, like ants, take care to lay up abundant stores of provisions."
Among these shades of the cave an abode of the first men as it seemed I saw the hand start forth of him who existed on the spectacle of the fields and the sea, who was trying to show it and to seize it; or I saw around a vague halo four card-players stubbornly bent upon finding again something of an ancient and peaceful attachment in the faces of the cards; or I saw Margat flourish a Socialist paper that had fallen from Termite's pocket, and burst into laughter at the censored blanks it contained.
At each fresh explosion splinters were scattered round him and shook him, as though the dead man was still marked and chosen by the blind destruction. There was something hatefully painful in the doll-like attitude of the hanging corpse. Then Termite's voice was raised. "Poor lad!" he said. He went out from the shelter of the wall. "Are you mad?" we shouted; "he's dead, anyway!"
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