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Updated: May 2, 2025
At one side of the passage, lying in a position that strongly suggested death in a crouching, despairing attitude death by starvation rather than by violence a little clutter of human bones gleamed white under the torch-flare. "A skeleton the first one of our vanished race we've ever found!" exclaimed the man.
For now already the great ungainly wings of the machine were wallowing up, up, out of the jetty waters; and now the body, now the engine showed, weed-festooned, smeared with mud and slime, a strange and awesome apparition in that blue and ghastly torch-flare, as the toiling men hauled it slowly, foot by foot, up the long slope of the beach.
It is nearly done, this pyramid. But there still remain three-and-twenty vacant places to be filled." For a long minute, the eyes of the Master and of Bara Miyan met, in silence, with the torch-flare glinting strange lights from them. Then the Olema spoke. "Hast thou seen enough?" demanded he. "Mine eyes are filled." "And dost thou still ask rewards of gold?"
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