But Dean Rawson had gathered the slender figure, starry-eyed and sobbing into his arms.
CHAPTER XXIII
Oro and Grah
Then there were footsteps approaching the chest.
he Place of Death!" said Dean Rawson. "Whoever named it had the right idea."
As part of their titanic plan, Rawson and Loah-San return to sacrifice themselves in the flaming caverns of the Red Ones.
He looked out across the wide stretch of ground with its covering of white salt almost entirely stripped of the carpet of vines. The bodies of the mole-men lay where they had fallen; their flame-throwers still tore futilely at the earth or stabbed upward in vain, thrusting toward the green-gold sun that shone pitilessly down.