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"I see no fire. Your eyes, used to the dark places and the fogs, now far surpass mine, even as mine will yours when the time of light shall come. Where is the fire, Zangamon?" The fisher pointed, a dim huge figure in the star-lit gloom. "There, master. On thy left hand, thus."
A vague uneasiness began to oppress him. The fire, he reckoned, should have shown ere now in the far distance. Without it, how find his way? And what of Beatrice? His uneasy reflections were suddenly interrupted by a word from Zangamon, at his right. "O Kromno, master, see?" "What is it, now?" "A fire, very distant, master!" "Where?" queried Stern eagerly, his heart leaping with joy.
Your arm still bleeds. Let us bind it." "It is nothing only a scratch!" But Zangamon insisted. "Master," said he, "in this we cannot obey you. See? While you and the woman talked I fetched water, as you commanded. Now I must wash your hurts and bind them." Allan had to accede. Together the two Merucaans examined the injuries with words of commiseration.
He summoned Zangamon and Frumuos, together with Sivad and the three aviators. "Well done!" said he; and that was all all, yet enough. Then, while the people cheered again and, crowding round, greeted their kinsfolk, he gave orders for the housing and the care of the travel-wearied newcomers. Through the summer air drifted slow smoke.
The destruction he had already wrought among them was but child's play to what would be. And in his soul flamed the foreknowledge of a hunt a l'outrance, to the bitter end. So long as one, a single one of that foul breed should live, he would not rest from killing. "Master! This way! Here, master!" The voice of Zangamon sent him once more crashing through the jungle, after his questing guides.
"Why I was here on the bed, and you were beside me, Allan and these men of our Folk were here! But how it all happened, God knows!" "I'll tell you some time. You shall have the story from our side some day, but not now. Only one thing if it hadn't been for Zangamon here and Bremilu well " "You mean they helped rescue me?" He nodded. "Without them I'd have been helpless as a child.
For a long moment he strained them both to his breast, then, the woman's kiss still hot upon his lips, ran quickly up the path and joined his picked troop of scouts. "Forward, men!" cried he, taking the lead with Zangamon. Some minutes later Beatrice saw them defiling over the long, shaking bridge.
Hollow, booming, deep, yet rising to a wild shriek of rage and horrid brutality, the beast-cry flung itself through the jungle. And, following it, they heard again that muffled drumming, as though gigantic fists were flailing a tremendous tambour in the darkness. "Master!" whispered Zangamon, recoiling a step. "Oh, Kromno, what is that?"
The "scratch" turned out to be three severe lacerations of the forearm. The gorilla's teeth had missed the radial artery only by a fluke of fortune. They bathed away the clotted blood and bandaged the arm not unskilfully. Allan pressed the hand of Zangamon, then that of his companion. "No thanks of mine can tell you what I feel!" he exclaimed straight from the heart.
For surely woe shall come again on us. In your own behalf I warn you, and ye shall be the judges. Now answer me, O my Folk, what shall be done unto any who rebels?" "He shall die!" boomed the voice of Zangamon. The loyal fighter, now lean and gaunt with great labors, but still powerful, raised his corded hand on high. "Of a truth, that man shall die!" "What death?" cried Stern.
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