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“We’ll probably have to come back, Walter,” he said. “I don’t believe the place is passable.”
I pointed — we were then just over the threshold of the elfin globe. Where the veils had stretched between the perpendicular pillars of the cliffs was now a wide and ragged-edged opening.
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The amethystine ring from which had been streamed the circling veils was cracked and blackened; like a seam of coal it had stretched around the Pit — a crown of mourning. The veils were gone. The floor of the valley was fissured and blackened; its patterns, its writings burned away. As far as we could see stretched a sea of slag — coal black, vitrified and dead.
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So thinking I became aware of increasing light; strode past Yuruk to the door and peeped out. Dawn was paling the sky. I stooped over Drake, shook him. On the instant he was awake, alert.
“I only need a little sleep, Dick,” I said. “When the sun is well up, call me.”
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I rolled myself up in his warm blanket; sank almost instantly into dreamless slumber.
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“You men pick out the things and I’ll get breakfast ready,” said Ruth.
Drake picked up the teakettle and motioned me before him.
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