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 a faint aureole began to form.
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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,PJS Herreklær Linus Parkas, sighting carefully for a third shot.
“Don’t! Martin — don’t fire!” I shouted, leaping toward him.
“Stop! Ventnor —” Drake’s panic cry mingled with my own.
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I heard a wailing, low, bitter and heartbroken. Past us ran Ruth, all dream, all unearthliness gone from a face now a tragic mask of human woe and terror. She threw herself down beside her brother, felt of his heart; then raised herself upon her knees and thrust out supplicating hands to the shapes.
“Don’t hurt him any more! He didn’t mean it!” she cried out to them piteously — like a child. She reached up, caught one of Norhala’s hands. “Norhala — don’t let them kill him. Don’t let them hurt him any more. Please!” she sobbed.
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“If they touch her I’ll kill the woman! I will, by God I will!” He strode to Norhala’s side.
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