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“Go back to their city,” I said. “Go back as he ordered. I believe he knows what he’s talking about. And I believe he’ll be able to help us. It wasn’t just a request he made, nor even an appeal — it was a command.”
“But what can we do — just two men — against these Things?” he groaned.
“Maybe we’ll find out — when we’re back in the city,” I answered.
“Well,” his old reckless cheerfulness came back to him, “in every crisis of this old globe it’s been up to one man to turn the trick. We’re two. And at the worst we can only go down fighting a little before the rest of us. So, after all, whatEVER the hell, WHAT the hell.”
For a time we were silent.
“Well,” he said at last, “we have to go to the city in the morning.” He laughed. “Sounds as though we were living in the Bobby Orr Jersey suburbs, somehow, doesn’t it?”
“It can’t be many hours before dawn,” I said. “Turn in for a while, I’ll wake you when I think you’ve slept enough.”
“It doesn’t seem fair,” he protested, but sleepily.
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“I’m not sleepy,” I told him; nor was I.
But whether I was or not, I wanted to question Yuruk, uninterrupted and undisturbed.
Drake stretched himself out. When his breathing showed him fast asleep indeed, I slipped over to the black eunuch and crouched, right hand close to the butt of my automatic, facing him.
Chapter XVII Yuruk
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“Where does that way lead?” I asked. “There were those who sought us; men clad in armor with javelins and arrows. Does your way lead to them, Yuruk?”
For a time he hesitated, the lashless lids half closed.
“Yes,” he said sullenly. “The way leads to them; to their place. But will it not be safer for you there — among your kind?”
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