Forbidden Gold by L. Ron Hubbard

Author:L. Ron Hubbard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Action & Adventure
Publisher: Galaxy Press
Published: 2014-06-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

THE pungent odor of woodsmoke drifted into the dark room shortly after darkness had fallen. Kurt sniffed at it uneasily. He felt very like a trapped animal, unable to do anything about his circumstances. His strength, in this emergency, had returned to him.

He stopped in his pacing at the window. A fire was somewhere in the front of the building. He could see its reflected glare on the houses opposite the window. The black night was drawn down tight as a net over the village.

The wish to defeat Nathan Reid had carried him to this. But then, if he hadn’t tried, he never would have met Joy. That seemed very vital to him and he felt himself standing in fear of the fact that he would have missed being with her.

What would happen to her now? She was dangerous to Bruce and therefore Bruce could hardly be expected to take her away. She was certainly no use to these Indians and they would therefore kill her as they were going to kill him.

He thought about her a little while. Her blue eyes, laughing. Her hair with its golden lights. Joy hadn’t been afraid.

If only he could get to his plane somehow. But then, of course, they’d found the yellow ship. It wouldn’t be there anymore.

His musings were interrupted by the sounds of men outside. The door was flung back. Straight Mayans were standing there, led by the old man in the robe. Their glistening bodies were silhouetted against the fires on top of the huge pyramid.

Kurt began to understand now. He’d come for gold, he was going to get gold.

He stepped out into the center of the military file. Coppery spears, coppery skins. Dark eyes which did not even look at him. These Mayans had remembered something of their ancient mercenaries, the Toltecs. They marched on either side of him, in two lines, in step.

The pyramid looked bigger than it was in the flaring light of the smoking fires at its top. Kurt became aware of a horde of people standing about the front of the base. Faces were turned exultantly, wonderingly, cruelly, in his direction.

This show was for the devil who had returned after fifty years. For the killer who had come for gold. And now they were going to give him the gold he wanted. They were going to give him death besides in spite of his charmed existence and his talisman.

Kurt held his head erect, neither looking to the left or right. He wouldn’t give them the pleasure of seeing that he was afraid anyway. He marched like the soldiers and their copper spears. His boots rang above the sounds of bare feet on the stone pavements.

They reached the base of the pyramid. A ripple of sound went over the assembly like a wave. It died as Kurt started the ascent toward the narrow top.

The moon was shining now, clear and yellow, sparkling on the surface of the lake. Great stone statues stood out in all their grotesque hideousness.

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