A cry? Was that a cry, so distant and so faint? Beast-cry, or call of night-bird, shrill and far?
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To the doorway in the cliff he ran, shaken and trembling.
Sonorous, vibrant, menacing, it echoed and died; and then again, as once before, Stern heard that strange, hollow booming, as of some mighty drum struck by a muffled fist.
No answer.
The colonists stood, frightened and confused, peering at him in the dark. His face, in the ruddy fire-glow, as he studied the thing he now held in his hand, must have been very terrible.
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"What--what can this mean?"
Awed, terrified by their first sight of trees and by the upper world which to them was naught but marvel and danger, the two Merucaans followed close behind their guide. Even so would you or I cling to the Martian who should land us on that ruddy planet and pilot us through some huge, inchoate and grotesque growth of things to us perfectly unimaginable.
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"Why, Beatrice never makes a fire like that!" the thought pierced through his mind.
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To the bed he ran. It was empty and cold.
Something lying on the rock-ledge, near the fire, caught his eye. He snatched it up.
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On hands and knees he fell, and hastily crawled through. As he went, he flashed his lamp here, there, everywhere.
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A glint of something metallic on the floor drew his bewildered, terror-smitten gaze.
The object in his hand was the girl's gun. One cartridge, and only one, had been exploded.
The stone had been pushed away; it lay inside the cave. Ominously the black entrance seemed staring at him in the dull gleam of the firelight.
He flung from him the bit of the girl's cloak which, ripped and shredded as though by a powerful hand, cried disaster.
Presently, followed by the two colonists who dared not let him for a moment out of their sight, he reached the brow of the canyon. His hand flash-lamp showed him the rough path to the terrace.
"Beta!" again he hailed. "O-he! Beatrice!"
"What's this?"
In the far corner still flickered some remainder of the cooking-fire. But there, too, ashes and half-burned sticks lay scattered all about.
Stern shuddered, and with redoubled haste once more pushed through the vague path he and Beatrice had made from the barrens to Settlement Miffs.
Still no answer, nor any sign from her. As he came to the fire he noted, despite his strong emotions, that it had for the most part burned down to glowing embers
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And--though as yet on no very definite grounds--a quick prescience of catastrophe battered at his heart.
"Oh, master, we shall see the patriarch soon?" asked Bremilu, in a strange voice--a voice to him astonishingly loud, in the clear air of night upon the surface of the world. "Soon shall we speak with him and--"
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Quickly he scrambled along the broken terrace, stumbling in his haste over loose rocks and debris. Now he had reached the turn. The fire was in sight.
Again, his quick eye caught the fact that cinders, ashes and half-burned sticks lay scattered about in strange disorder.
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He sprang, seized the object, and for a moment stood staring, while all about him the very universe seemed thundering and crashing down.
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