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And as they passed the bridges swung up, coiled and thrust themselves from sight through openings that closed behind them. Ever, as they passed, close on their going whipped out other spans so that always across that abyss a sentient, shifting web was hung.
We drew back, stared into each other’s white face. Panic swept through me, in quick, alternate pulse of ice and fire. For crushingly, no longer to be denied, came certainty that we were lost within the mazes of this incredible City — lost in the body of the Metal Monster which that City was. There was a sick despair in my heart as we turned and slowly made our way back ny boulder parka along the sloping corridor.
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“It’s opened since we went by,” whispered Drake.
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Chapter XI The Metal Emperor
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she stretched out one white hand and asked half imperiously, half threateningly:
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It was a well-sped shaft, and quivered alive and burning in her heart of hearts. She gave a spring like the panther she seemed at that minute, but instantly recovered herself, and launching, upon me the strangest smile, mockingly exclaimed:
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n she — and her face, ecstatic as though she were gazing into Paradise, yet drenched with the tranquillity of the infinite. Her wide eyes stared up toward that rose of splendors through which the pulsing colors now raced more swiftly. She hung poised before it while around her head CG Miehet Manitoba takki a faint aureole began to form.
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A rifle shot rang out.
Another — the reports breaking the silence like a profanation. Unseen by either of us, Ventnor had slipped to one side where he could cover the core of ruby flame that must have seemed to him the heart of the Disk’s rose of fire. He knelt a few yards away, white lipped, eyes cold gray ice, sighting carefully for a third shot.
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“Stop! Ventnor —” Drake’s panic cry mingled with my own.
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one came and Iwas being whirled away from gouty, consumptive Buxton to London withits stern work and life. I looked out of the carriage as we rushedthrough Hendon in the evening. The lurid glare overhanging the mightycity seemed to warm my heart, and when, later on, my cab rattled outof St. Pancras' station, the old familiar roar that came swelling uparound me sounded the sweetest music I had heard for many a long day.
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