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"What an awful place," Zaidie whispered. "Surely we can't land there. How far are we from it?" "About fifteen hundred miles," replied Redgrave, who was sweeping the scene below him with one of the two powerful telescopes which stood on the deck. "No, it doesn't look very cheerful, does it?
In fact, he noticed with a certain displeasure which vanished speedily with a musical, and half-malicious little laugh from Zaidie, that when he spoke the Bird-Folk drew back a little and looked in something like astonishment at him; but Zaidie was already in touch with them, and half by song and half by signs she very soon gave them an idea of what they were and where they had come from.
Let it down!" While he was speaking Zaidie had taken off a Spanish mantilla which she had thrown over her head as she came out, and which the ladies of Venus seemed to think was part of her hair.
Isn't it his mind that's working in these wonderful engines of yours, and isn't it his strength that lifts us up from the earth and takes us down again just as you please to turn that wheel?" "There's little doubt about that, Zaidie," said Redgrave quietly, but earnestly.
"Lenox, Lenox, for goodness' sake let us go up!" cried Zaidie, shrinking still closer to him. "That thing's too horrible to look at." "It is a beast, isn't it?" he said; "but I think we can cut him in two without much trouble." He signalled for full speed.
Is that so?" said Redgrave, with a glance and a smile mostly directed towards Miss Zaidie. "Well, to tell you the truth," he went on, "I am not a bit penitent. On the contrary, I am very glad to have been able to assist the Fates as far as I have done." "Assist the Fates!" gasped Mrs.
These depressions were far deeper than the others, evidently many thousands of feet below the average surface, but the sun's rays were blazing full into this one, and, dotted round its slopes at varying elevations, they made out little patches which seemed to differ from the general surface. "I wonder if those are the remains of cities," said Zaidie.
The silent minutes passed, and with each the silver thread for them the thread of life grew, with strange contradiction, longer and longer, and with every minute it grew more quickly. A hundred and forty-six. With his right arm Redgrave drew Zaidie still closer to him. He put out his left hand and took up the little glass. She did the same. "Goodbye, dear, till we have slept and wake again!"
When due payment had been given and taken, or perhaps it would be more correct to say taken and given, Redgrave put his finger on one of the buttons. Immediately Zaidie heard the swish of the air past the smooth wall of the conning-tower grow fainter and fainter.
"And what a goodbye," whispered Zaidie, with an upward glance into the starlit ocean of Space which lay above and around them. "Goodbye to the world itself! Well, say it, Lenox, and let us go; I want to see what the others are like."
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