"GOGRUGRON!"
They were visible for a few seconds only—those great eyes burning with a greenish fire.
"Where did they go?" exclaimed Rhodes.
"And," said I, "what can it be? An ape-bat?"
"That is no ape-bat."
He turned to Ondonarkus.
"Loopmuke?" he queried.
No; it was not a loopmuke. But what it was neither Ondonarkus's pantomime nor Drorathusa's could tell us.
"I don't think it's as bad as that. But the Dromans all know what it is themselves."
"There!" I cried, whirling round. "Did you hear that, Milton? There's that other thing again—that thing behind us!"