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Updated: May 31, 2025
From the garden where Tarrano was talking with Elza, the Mars man Wolfgar led us to the tower in which we were to be imprisoned. Quite evidently it had been placed in readiness for us. A tower of several rooms, comfortably equipped. As we crossed the lower bridge and reached the main doorway, Wolfgar unsealed a black fuse-box which stood there, and pulled the relief-switch.
Presently we saw the figure of Wolfgar join him. The two spoke together a moment; then Argo disappeared; Wolfgar paced back and forth on guard in his place.
It wouldn't be right to tell you except that I'll soon be gone where it won't make any difference." He gathered all his last remaining strength. "I love you Princess Maida." She forced a gentle smile through her tears. "Yes, Wolfgar." "I mean," he persisted, "not as my Princess just as a woman. The woman I've always loved. That's been my secret. You see?
In that moment of relief that I had come to my senses, she could not hide the love which even now was unspoken between us. Tarrano! I lay there weak and faint; but with the pressure of Elza's hand, I did not fear that this Tarrano could win her from me. Wolfgar was standing across the room from us. He came forward. "You did not die," he said; and smiled. "I told her you would not die."
I caught Georg's glance as our captor led us into the lower room an apartment cut into the half-segment of a circle. Georg, at my elbow, whispered: "No use! Where could we go? Could not get out of the city " The hearing of the Little People is sharp. Wolfgar turned his head and smiled. "You will be quite secure here do not think of escape." His bronzed fingers toyed with a cone at his belt.
The body of Wolfgar lying on its raised prow his dead, white face, with peace upon it. Beside the body, the lone figure of Maida, kneeling at Wolfgar's head, with her white, braided hair falling down over her shoulders. Kneeling and staring, almost expressionless; but I knew that with her whole heart she was speeding the soul of Wolfgar to its eternal peace. Unseen Menace
His face and lips were drained now of their blood. "You're still there?" "Yes, Wolfgar." "Yes of course I know you are. But I cannot see you very well now. You look so far away." She put her face down quite close to him. Her eyes were brimming with tears. "Oh yes," he said. "That's better much better. Now I can see you very plainly. I was thinking I wanted to tell you something.
But I heard Wolfgar say swiftly: "We're trapped! You, of all of us you Georg Brende, must escape." The rest of his words to Georg I did not catch. He was thrusting a weapon into Georg's hands; and giving hurried advice and explanations.
"My Princess Maida " His voice still reached us. She leaned closer over him. Her tears were falling now, but as she spoke she strove for calmness. "Wolfgar " His eyes were glazing, but they dung to her. "Princess " "No," she said. "Just Maida your friend. The woman you have given your life for." Her voice almost broke. "Oh, Wolfgar! Never shall I forget that. To give your life "
It seemed at first very strange, unreal. It lay a shadow of grief upon our spirits, for many hours a deeper shadow than all those grave events impending upon which hung the fate of three worlds. Tarrano ordered for Wolfgar a public burial of ceremony and honor in the waters of eternal peace ordered it for that same evening. Once again Tarrano demonstrated the strangeness of his nature.
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