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Darkness and Dawn

Chapter 10 TERROR

Word Count: 1715    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

ced in the preliminaries

temporarily forgotten and the future still put far away--half a

less some strange, untoward accident befell, th

was entirely impractical, since it would mean that most of their time woul

the cool green beauty of Madison Forest. In an hour or so, they cleared out the bat

remarked the engineer, standing back an

a while. It's not too high for ease, and it's high enough for safety--to keep

ion. "In a day or two I'll make some kind of an outer door, or barricade. But

answered wistfully, from the w

ve got to go 'way to the top of the tower and bring

oil and no end of things. You save your strength for

ling a little sadly. "But rea

y!" And he started for the door. Then a t

ne of those revolvers. With the best of this leather here," nodding at the G

her thongs to lash it with. Presently it was done, and a strap to tie it round his waist

omatic and a handful of cartridges. Quickly he filled the magazine. The shells were gr

p and welcome report burst from the weapon. And a few leaves, clipped

his new holster. "You see, the powder and fulminate, sealed up in the

ut there, see? And don't be afraid of wasting ammunition. There mu

had climbed a hundred feet up the tower stair, he heard a slow, uneven pop--pop--popping, and

y, badly--before we know it!" thought

segai-point, that he made still another excuse that afternoon and so go

rk at home to do, making some real clothing and some sandals for them b

furs from the shop in the arcade, and

neighborhood from Sixth Avenue as far east as Third an

away troublesome bush or brambles, or to slit imped

of Broadway and Nineteenth--he ran into nothing more formidable than a lynx which

ith pain, out of view. Stern noted with s

these x years!" he commented, stooping to exa

watchful, he contin

ity, as such, had e

ns," he sized up the situation, "traversed by lanes o

nes practically gone. Steel alone standing, and that in rotten

twentieth century could have foreseen this they wouldn't have

noting that the Osterhaut Building, on Seventeenth

dding with grim satisf

lty down the choked stairway, through bushes and over masses of ruin that

water settled in the ancient road-bed. The rails were wholly go

long tangle of rubbish that had been a train--stall

rms of ages had beaten down, and lush grasses flour

ce every vestige of man had been swept away. Stern shuddered, more

of it. "They boasted--like the financiers, the churchmen, the merchants, eve

laying in still more supplies from the wrecked shops. Now for the first time, his wonde

of his own voice uncanny in that woodland street of death. "All gone, everything! M

ly away and went to work. Wherever he stumble

Beatrice or to himself if either should meet with any mishap. The consequences o

t hem of his bearskin, things of all kinds and uses. He found a clay pipe--

are wines. Coffee and salt he came upon. In the ruins of the little French brass-ware shop,

in it. The fluid hermetically seale

, he betook himself, heavy laden, once more back past the spring, and so through the p

iling up the stair with his burden: "What will she say, I wonder, w

y he heard a cry from above. Then a spat

, listenin

led, his voice falling flat and

her

Stern. "What's

and, spurred by a great terror

lter, their home, he

eply

short, his fac

Heaven!" s

rl was

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1 Chapter 1 THE AWAKENING2 Chapter 2 REALIZATION3 Chapter 3 ON THE TOWER PLATFORM4 Chapter 4 THE CITY OF DEATH5 Chapter 5 EXPLORATION6 Chapter 6 TREASURE-TROVE7 Chapter 7 THE OUTER WORLD8 Chapter 8 A SIGN OF PERIL9 Chapter 9 HEADWAY AGAINST ODDS10 Chapter 10 TERROR11 Chapter 11 A THOUSAND YEARS!12 Chapter 12 DRAWING TOGETHER13 Chapter 13 THE GREAT EXPERIMENT14 Chapter 14 THE MOVING LIGHTS15 Chapter 15 PORTENTS OF WAR16 Chapter 16 THE GATHERING OF THE HORDES17 Chapter 17 STERN'S RESOLVE18 Chapter 18 THE SUPREME QUESTION19 Chapter 19 THE UNKNOWN RACE20 Chapter 20 THE CURIOSITY OF EVE21 Chapter 21 EVE BECOMES AN AMAZON22 Chapter 22 GODS!23 Chapter 23 THE OBEAH24 Chapter 24 THE FIGHT IN THE FOREST25 Chapter 25 THE GOAL, AND THROUGH IT26 Chapter 26 BEATRICE DARES27 Chapter 27 TO WORK!28 Chapter 28 THE PULVERITE29 Chapter 29 THE BATTLE ON THE STAIRS30 Chapter 30 BEGINNINGS31 Chapter 31 SETTLING DOWN32 Chapter 32 THE MASKALONGE33 Chapter 33 THE GOLDEN AGE34 Chapter 34 DEADLY PERIL35 Chapter 35 TRAPPED!36 Chapter 36 A NIGHT OF TOIL37 Chapter 37 THE REBIRTH OF CIVILIZATION38 Chapter 38 PLANNING THE GREAT MIGRATION39 Chapter 39 TOWARD THE GREAT CATARACT40 Chapter 40 THE PLUNGE!41 Chapter 41 TRAPPED ON THE LEDGE42 Chapter 42 ON THE CREST OF THE MAELSTROM43 Chapter 43 A FRESH START44 Chapter 44 LABOR AND COMRADESHIP45 Chapter 45 FINDING THE BIPLANE46 Chapter 46 ALL ABOARD FOR BOSTON!47 Chapter 47 THE HURRICANE48 Chapter 48 WESTWARD HO!49 Chapter 49 ON THE LIP OF THE CHASM50 Chapter 50 LOST IN THE GREAT ABYSS51 Chapter 51 LIGHTS!52 Chapter 52 THE WHITE BARBARIANS53 Chapter 53 THE LAND OF THE MERUCAANS54 Chapter 54 THE DUNGEON OF THE SKELETONS55 Chapter 55 "YOU SPEAK ENGLISH!"56 Chapter 56 DOOMED!57 Chapter 57 THE BATTLE IN THE DARK58 Chapter 58 SHADOWS OF WAR59 Chapter 59 EXPLORATION No.5960 Chapter 60 ESCAPE 61 Chapter 61 PREPARATIONS62 Chapter 62 THE PATRIARCH'S TALE63 Chapter 63 THE COMING OF KAMROU64 Chapter 64 FACE TO FACE WITH DEATH65 Chapter 65 GAGE OF BATTLE66 Chapter 66 THE FINAL STRUGGLE67 Chapter 67 DEATH, LIFE, AND LOVE68 Chapter 68 EASTWARD HO!69 Chapter 69 CATASTROPHE!70 Chapter 70 "TO-MORROW IS OUR WEDDING-DAY"71 Chapter 71 THE SEARCH FOR THE RECORDS72 Chapter 72 TRAPPED! No.7273 Chapter 73 THE LEADEN CHEST74 Chapter 74 TILL DEATH US DO PART75 Chapter 75 AT SETTLEMENT CLIFFS76 Chapter 76 SEPARATION77 Chapter 77 "HAIL TO THE MASTER!"78 Chapter 78 CHALLENGED!79 Chapter 79 THE RAVISHED NEST80 Chapter 80 ON THE TRAIL OF THE MONSTER81 Chapter 81 IN THE GRIP OF TERROR82 Chapter 82 A RESPITE FROM TOIL83 Chapter 83 THE DISTANT MENACE84 Chapter 84 THE ANNUNCIATION85 Chapter 85 THE MASTER OF HIS RACE86 Chapter 86 DISASTER!87 Chapter 87 ALLAN RETURNS NOT88 Chapter 88 THE TREASON OF H'YEMBA89 Chapter 89 THE RETURN OF THE MASTER90 Chapter 90 THE BOY IS GONE!91 Chapter 91 THE FALL OF H'YEMBA92 Chapter 92 THE COMING OF THE HORDE93 Chapter 93 WAR!94 Chapter 94 THE BESOM OF FLAME95 Chapter 95 ALLAN'S NARRATIVE96 Chapter 96 INTO THE FIRE-SWEPT WILDERNESS97 Chapter 97 A STRANGE APPARITION98 Chapter 98 THE MEETING OF THE BANDS99 Chapter 99 FIVE YEARS LATER100 Chapter 100 HISTORY AND ROSES