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Updated: June 20, 2025
"Don't look at it now," advised Tradmos, in an undertone; "it was constructed to be seen from below, and to light the great rotunda." Mutely the captives obeyed. At every turn they were greeted with a new wonder.
Captain Tradmos entered, followed by two of his men holding black silken bandages. "We must blindfold you," he said; "captives are not allowed to see the entrance to our kingdom." Without a word they submitted. "This way," said the captain kindly, and, holding to an arm of each, he piloted them out of the vessel to the shore.
Then Johnston found that he could not breathe freely, and he understood the trouble of the Englishman. Captain Tradmos came suddenly to the door. He was smiling as he motioned toward the wines on the table. "You had better drink more of the wine," he advised sententiously. Both of the captives rushed to the table. The instant they had swallowed the wine they felt relieved, but were still weak.
I have taken a liking to you, and some time, when I get the opportunity, I shall give you some useful advice, but I must treat you very formally, at least till you have had audience with the king." "Thank you," said the Englishman, and Tradmos stood up in the car to watch their progress through the circular glass of a little cupola on top.
Thorndyke smiled at Johnston, but the American was in no pleasant mood. The indifference with which Tradmos had treated him had nettled him. The machine was now slowly descending. A vast pile of white marble, with many golden domes and spires, rose between them and the earth below.
"I don't see how a fellow can help it; they are ravishingly beautiful, don't you think so, Johnston?" "Don't be a fool," snapped the American, "don't you know enough to hold your tongue." Tradmos smiled as if amused, and when he had shown them to seats near the great golden throne, he said: "Stay where you are till the king sends for you, and then go and kneel before the throne.
"The moon, it will rise!" cried the princess. "It cannot," said Tradmos in his beard, "at least not for several hours." "They will kill my father," she said despondently, "they always hold him responsible for any accident." "They cannot reach him," consoled Tradmos. "He is safe for the present at least." "Is it possible to make the repairs needed?" "I don't know.
Tradmos regarded the American with a look of sympathy as he gave him a chair and then rang a bell on the table. Thorndyke looked up sleepily, as an attendant entered with a couple of parcels, and glanced wonderingly at his friend's white face and bloodshot eyes.
The captives now found themselves in the most splendid and spacious room they had ever seen, at the far end of which was a long dais and on it an elaborate throne. "I shall be obliged to leave you when the king comes," said Tradmos to Thorndyke, "but I shall hope to see you again. Don't forget my name and rank, for I may send you a message some time that may aid you."
Thorndyke felt the rubber tube quiver suddenly and writhe with the slow energy of a dying snake, and then from the quivering bell came a low, gurgling sound like a stream of water being forced backward and forward. Tradmos and the medical man stepped to the bell and inspected a small dial on its top. "What was that?" gasped the Englishman, purple in the face.
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