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But as the Thurian came Raja loosened his hold upon the lidi and dashed for him, with the female close after. When the man saw them he yelled to me to help him, protesting that we should both be killed if we did not fight together. But I only laughed at him and ran toward Dian.“None whatever,” replied Perry. “It was in search of her that I came to the pretty pass in which you discovered me, and from which, David, you saved me.

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“Furthermore, close to the Mountains of the Clouds dwells a good friend, Ja the Mezop. You did not know him, but you know all that he did for me and all that he will gladly do to aid me.���õ�pk10�ƻ��������õ�pk10�ƻ�����

���õ�pk10�ƻ�����Finally she spread her giant wings, flapped them vigorously a score of times and rose above the blue sea. A single time she circled far aloft — and then straight as an arrow she sped away.���õ�pk10�ƻ�����Ten minutes after reading this letter I had cabled Mr. Nestor as follows:

�������ι��� Even as I was thinking these thoughts the quarry emerged from the forest. But it was no terrified four-footed beast. Instead, what I saw was an old man — a terrified old man!���õ�pk10�ƻ�����Then, too, she must have been impressed by the wondrous mechanism of the prospector which had bored its way from world to world and back again. And that it had been driven by a rational being must also have occurred to her.���õ�pk10�ƻ�����

���õ�pk10�ƻ�����Dian, of course, I looked upon as more than friend. She was my mate — a part of me.The End

She rested safely now upon an even keel; nor did she leak, for she was well calked with fiber and tarry pitch. We rigged up a single short mast and light sail, fastened planking down over the ballast to form a deck, worked her out into midstream with a couple of sweeps, and dropped our primitive stone anchor to await the turn of the tide that would bear us out to sea.���õ�pk10�ƻ��������õ�pk10�ƻ�����At last the sea subsided, and we were able to get a better view of the armada of small boats in our wake. There must have been two hundred of them. Juag said that he had never seen so many boats before in all his life. Where had they come from? Juag was first to hazard a guess.���õ�pk10�ƻ�����