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sarka's last words were almost drowned out by the humming sound that came out of the revolving barrel that perfected device which was the ultimate in the evolution of television and vibration transference
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smythe was the janitor of the museum betty standing behind her father wondered what he could want that he should phone so early in the morning her father's next words sent a thrill of fright through her heart
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we are not yet ready if we were we wouldn't move for we prefer that your council have time to think about what is surely to come if you doubt that we have the power to do what we have threatened to do
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a hateful ugly people perpetually scowling snarling their very voices resembled more the growl of wild beasts than the speech of intelligent beings
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belong to your people what i plan is for their betterment but it means war war which may last century two centuries in which lives of countless thousands may be lost
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the tubular nostrils and antennae seemed to be sniffing at them waving to and fro see the white expanse of cornea how large it is
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they walked up the driveway entrance and then marable uttered an exclamation something's wrong he said there was a small crowd of people collected on the steps the outer doors instead of being open as usual were closed and guards stood peering out
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sarka glancing out into the outside across which blew the storms of the heights and noting that no cracks appeared in the surface of the world's vast roof
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not even sarka the second guessed the depth of infamy of which dalis was capable dalis had given a hint but sarka had in his sudden realization of the fact that jaska really loved him and was no traitor forgotten that hint
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a head flat and reptilian long tubular with movable nostrils and antennae at the end framed two eyes which were familiar enough to her for they were the orbs which had stared from the inside of the amber block she had dreamed of those eyes
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fifteen centuries ago my father's father cried sarka dalis told you that he possessed the power to halt for a moment the headlong whirl of the world on its axis about the sun
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a dead world covered with ashes whose people dwell in dank caverns like gnomes of the underworld stay snapped sarka but i granted you a greater honor even than that dalis
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times and times or which hadn't left its own blood in the dwelling places of neighbors no law could cope with this intolerable situation for men down the ages had changed in their essential characteristics but little
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it will of course be understood that at the time we had but a bulky and clumsy instrument to enable us to convey and receive thought
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as he did so a single white robed figure of life-size when seen through the micro telescopes darted out of the fray and headed at top speed for the dwelling place of sarka jaska relieved was returning home
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now we have many instances of reptiles such as lizards and toads penned up in solid rock but surviving for hundreds of years evidently this great reptile went through the same sort of experience i would say that there has been some great upheaval of nature
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sarka turned again to the beryl the area of which dalis was spokesman was roughly speaking that part of what had once been the pacific ocean north of a line drawn east and west through the southern most of the hawaiian islands northward to the pole
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commander at the time of the super cruiser tamon a special patrol ship of the alliance i wasn't at all surprised to receive orders from the central council to report at emergency speed
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go and tell your council we are more than a match for you and for them he thrust me reeling towards his three assistants take him to his ship and send aid for ife rance here
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now he shouted bringing down his arm we have begun our journey into space come let us look outside and await the first reports from my father
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many of the men and women and children who had lost in their now century-old fight for survival had merely been tossed out of their hives a painless swift death
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and had worked and slaved in his laboratory against the contingency which had developed he had smiled though there was a trace of fear on his face after dalis had left for his scheme had been worked out-not to destroy but to save
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i'm not so sure of that son replied the elder sarka for i have known him longer than you have there is something else in that brain of his which takes no thought of the death of people of his gens or for the betterment of the other people of the earth i wonder
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the gens of dalis rushed headlong to meet the aircars and many of them rushed headlong to their destruction sarka noted a group of perhaps a hundred people break forth from the vanguard of the attackers
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for within twenty-four hours the earth will have started on its voyage of conquest is there no way sarka queried dalis by which we can control the direction of our flight
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i planned on your gens led by you making a successful conquest of the moon because only such a genius as dalis could force from this dead world a living for his gens because you are the wisest of the spokesmen i planned for you the greatest task
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as beautiful and effortless at the flight of those birds which had vanished from the earth centuries before remember dalis said sarka that while the speed of the earth in its orbit is between eighteen and nineteen miles per second
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the conquest of mars by garrett p serviss darkness and dawn and into the great oblivion and the after-glow and the air trust all by george allan england
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twelve hours later exactly sarka shouted a single word to dalis now the laboratory was swinging about in a sort of circle in a way that made one dizzy if one remained still for the merest second
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we follow cleric wherever he leads finally the words became intelligible it matters not to us whom cleric follows so long as we may follow cleric
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professor young curator was an expert in his line but young marable had charge of these particular fossil blocks the amber being pure because it was mixed with lignite the particular block which held the interest of the three was a huge yellow brown mass of irregular shape
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i stood there staring at him in a sort of daze what he had said was so true terribly damnably true
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why should i safeguard jaska asked sarka quietly she is a true daughter of cleric if cleric doesn't fear for her to be spokesman of a gens why should i
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the navigating room of an interplanetary ship is without doubt unfamiliar ground to most so it might be well for me to say that such ships have
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the observer glanced at me curiously but he was too well disciplined to hesitate or ask questions yes sir he said crisply and spoke into the microphone beside him
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when the first sarka discovered the secret they would have destroyed him though he made them immortal if only the secret interrupted jaska could be returned to him who discovered it
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jack darrow forty-two twenty-five north spalding avenue chicago illinois all readers are extended a sincere and cordial invitation to come over in the readers corner and join in our monthly discussion of stories authors scientific principles and possibilities
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send one ship commanded by a man whose word you will trust and we will prove to him that these are no empty words that as nearly as i can remember it concluded kellen is the message the man who brought it died almost before he had finished
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i shouldn't tell even you he answered his fingers working swiftly in their secret silent language which all the world could see but which only these two understood
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and always they knew the legions of enemies of sarka kept their ears open for words of sarka which could be twisted around to his undoing
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leffler made a gesture of impatience it cost me many thousands of dollars he cried it's time for lunch professor said betty marable bowed to leffler and left the millionaire sputtering away inspecting the various specimens he had contributed
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well spoken o gens of cleric snapped sarka when the murmuring died down to a whisper then faded out entirely deck yourselves in the white garments of cleric emblazon upon your backs and breast the red lily of his house prepare for war
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the face of dalis went suddenly white but he nodded his eyes burning redly jaska moved closer to the men who stood near the table of the vari-colored lights
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as they crossed the threshold a stout red-faced man in a gray uniform a watchman's clock hanging at his side raised his hat and smiled at the young woman and her father hello rooney cried betty how do you do miss young staying late this evening
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comparatively speaking taking a curving course about the surface of the moon as it had for countless millions of years coursed about the sun then back to the observatory to see how went the battle through the micro telescope the first meeting was plain to be seen
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and publish a lot by merritt edgar rice burroughs and authors like that you haven't as yet printed a story of the type that a merritt writes and that is one thing this magazine needs and lots of them as they are the cream of science fiction and the more of them you have the better
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as one voice the spokesmen of the gens spoke the word and sarka heard it he had forgotten for the moment that the spokesmen still could hear him that is all he said huskily prepare your gens each of you for such battle as even our histories never have recorded
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enough of this squabbling snapped sarka the second do you not realize that within a matter of hours some gens must be sent into battle
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the great black hand was nearly a third of the way around the face we were very close two hours would bring us into the atmospheric envelope in less than two hours and a half we would be in the control city of what is now called the forgotten planet
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i knew he would go said sarka for he cannot endure to see someone else take credit for winning this first victory if it's even possible to win it i knew that vain though he is dalis is yet a man
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come with me to the observatory where you will begin something beside squabbling with which to occupy your minds leaving the earth on its lonely flight through space the three men hurried to the observatory where they seated themselves before the eyepieces of the micro telescopes
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betty young screamed at last she had a sight of the terrible creature which her imagination had painted in loathing and horror a flash of brilliant scarlet dabbed with black patches was her impression of the beast
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you are proud and rightfully so of your great author ray cummings why not give us several stories which helped to build his glory here are several tarranto the conqueror
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the disc wasn't as perfect as those we have today it was hooded to keep out exterior light which isn't necessary with the later instruments and it was more unwieldy however it did its work and did it well in the hands of an experienced operator
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no we're leaving now rooney good night g night miss young sleep happy thanks rooney the old night watchman was a jolly fellow and everybody liked him he was very fond of betty and the young woman always passed a pleasant word with him rooney entered the room where the amber blocks were
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then what happens to your scheme sarka the third you see there is no change in the plans say one i am the master not you
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he glanced at me curiously as the observer had done but saluted and left with only a brief yes sir i returned the salute and turned my attention again to the charts
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and from this same laboratory in which sarka now sat and pondered on the next step in man's expansion sarka the first had in fear and trembling at first but with his confidence growing by leaps and bounds
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remember said dalis as the beryl began to revolve and its humming mounted moment by moment to normal that you must concur in whatever i say to the people of the earth for if you don't i swear that i will destroy this master beryl
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you wonder said kellen speaking of course in the soft and liquid universal language which is i understand still disseminated in our schools as it should be
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right sir he said briskly and gave the order i felt my weight increase and the order was obeyed gradually the familiar uncomfortable feeling left me
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and it was well for the peace of mind for the sarkas that they couldn't read the black thought of the man or look into the future even so far as a dozen years the gens of the yellow stars moved into contact with the aircars of the moon
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while the youngest of the spokesmen in a manner serving his apprenticeship was tutelary head of the vast plateau once called africa the name of this man was gerd
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his right hand started to rise though he would make it signal the negative he was unable for a moment to speak but even as he stood there swaying slightly on his feet
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and such married women as have all their children grow and who no longer need them prepare to go forth to battle from this laboratory within a brief space dalis and the sarkas will give you a further word
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and don't keep us waiting over long for we are an impatient race he bowed mockingly and passed his left hand swiftly before his face his people's sign of parting
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give orders to ascend at emergency speed for once my first officer hesitated he glanced at the attraction meter and then turned to me again wondering
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and that dream spoke jaska with speeding fingers i have wondered about you said sarka softly while those eyes of his bored deeply into hers
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we have been the best of friends the best of comrades but there are times when it comes to me that i don't know you entirely and i have many enemies
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the planet itself loomed up straight ahead a great half-circle its curved rim sharp and bright against the empty blackness of space the chord ragged and blurred in two hours i turned away and began a restless
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none of us wore menores when on duty for several reasons our instruments were not nearly as perfect as those in use to-day and verbal orders were clearer and carried more authority than mental instructions
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i glanced forward through the thick glass partitions into the operating room three men stood there watching intently they too were wondering why we visited the unfriendly world
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exactly sarka managed at last if the earth can be stayed on its axis it can be diverted from its orbit entirely i know for i have found the manner of its doing though i need the genius of dalis to check my work and my calculations
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the home of dalis was in the heart of what had once been an island historians claimed had been called oahu now a mountain peak still retaining a hint of the pre-discovery name ohi
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despite the fact that for centuries the secret of life had been the possession of children of men the earth was dying she was dying because the warmth of the sun was fading
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it were better if dallis self-named master of the work knew whether he was going chapter eight moon minions prepare
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one end of the vial unscrewed he turned the cap gently carefully a strained anxious look upon his face my four guards watched him breathlessly fearfully
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in that minute the maddening indecision took possession of him once more he opened the letter again read it over again and tore it up again i'm out of my mind cried geoffrey fixing his big bewildered blue eyes fiercely on the professor who trained him
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he pledged himself to write again the moment he had any information to send blanche snatched up the newspaper and opened it let me look she said i can find what anne saw here if any body can she ran her eye eagerly over column after column and page after page and dropped the newspaper on her lap with a gesture of despair
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don't you think mister crum will write before monday it is such a fortunate circumstance for us if he does write that i don't venture to anticipate it you are down on our luck sir
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he had been positively forbidden to enter the house his one excuse for setting that prohibitory sentence at defiance rested on the assumption that his father was actually dying as matters now stood lord holchester's order remained in full force
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after some journeying backward and forward to consult his gentleman he decided on retiring from business and on taking up his abode within an easy distance of his medical man
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the butler laid a special emphasis on a personal pronoun julius turned to his brother the change for the better in the state of lord holchester's health made geoffrey's position at that moment an embarrassing one
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finding a piece of freehold land to be sold in the neighborhood of fulham he bought it and had a cottage residence built on it under his own directions he surrounded the whole being a man singularly jealous of
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i detest slang arnold but slang i own expresses my state of mind in this instance with an accuracy which almost reconciles me to the use of it-for once in a way
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there is no denying he said that matters have taken a very serious turn my plans and calculations are all thrown out it is impossible to foresee what new mischief may not come of it
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sir patrick and arnold held more than one private consultation during the interval on the delicate and difficult subject of admitting blanche to a knowledge of what had happened the wise elder advised and the inexperienced junior listened think of it said sir patrick and do it and arnold thought of it and left it undone
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the news from glasgow the letters to lady lundie and to mr crum having been dispatched on monday the return of the post might be looked for on wednesday afternoon at ham farm
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go to that address and inquire for miss silvester if she has arrived give her my compliments and say i will have the honor of calling on her on mr brinkworth's behalf at the earliest date which she may find it convenient to appoint
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any intrusion on his retirement or of any chance observation of his ways and habits with a high wall which cost a large sum of money and which was rightly considered a dismal and hideous object by the neighbors when the new residence was completed he called it after this name of the place in staffordshire where he had made his money
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silvester is expected in london duncan i want a discreet person to communicate with her you are the person duncan bowed sir patrick handed him the note if you start at once you will be in time to catch the train
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julius geoffrey is standing by and taking no other than a listener's part in the proceedings is my father alive his lordship i am rejoiced to say he astonished the doctors sir he rallied last night in the most wonderful way if things go on for the next
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let those who feel inclined to blame him remember that he had only been married a fortnight it is hard surely after but two weeks possession of your wife to appear before her in the character of an offender on trial
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wait and see what the chances of the next eight or forty hours might bring forth and then write to her or desert her as the event might decide it lay in a nutshell if you could only see it thanks to crouch he did see it and so away in a pleasant temper for a dinner with our fellows and an evening at the play
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he mechanically took up the glasgow journal which arnold had laid aside while he spoke what is this he exclaimed as a name caught his eye in the first line of the newspaper at which he happened to look mrs glenarm again
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he recovered his good manner as if by magic want the pen and ink sir inquired his pedestrian host not i answered geoffrey the muddle's out of me now pen and ink be hanged i shall look up some of our fellows and go to the play he left the public house in the happiest condition of mental calm inspired by the stimulant
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of his whimsical humor once declared in my hearing that the invention of printing was nothing more or less than a proof of the intellectual activity of the devil upon my honor i feel for the first time in my life inclined to agree with him
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be quick about it and you will have time to get back before the last train have mr and mrs brinkworth returned from their drive no sir patrick pending the return of arnold and blanche sir patrick looked at mr crum's letter for the second time
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toward eighteen hundred and forty he first felt the approach of the chronic malady which ultimately terminated his life after trying what the medical men of his own locality could do for him with very poor success he met by accident with a doctor living in the western suburbs of london who thoroughly understood his complaint
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application of crouch's gloves his torpid cunning had been shaken up into excellent working order at last write to anne who but a fool would write to such a woman as that until he was forced to it
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