The Golden Age of Pulp Fiction MEGAPACK ™, Vol. 1: George Allan England: 15 Classic Tales by George Allan England

Author:George Allan England [England, George Allan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: mystery, science fiction, short stories, adventure, pulp
ISBN: 9781479402274
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2015-01-26T16:00:00+00:00

“Take—a tree?” gasped Beatrice.

“And maybe stay there a week? And use up—all our ammunition? Not yet—no—no! The boat!”

On, ever on, they struggled.

A strange, unnatural exhilaration filled the girl, banishing thoughts of peril, sending the blood aglow through every vein and fiber of her wonderful young body.

Stern realized the peril more keenly. At any moment now he understood that one of the devils in gray might hurl itself at the full throat of Beatrice or at his own.

And once the taste of blood lay on those crimson tongues—good-by!

“The boat—the boat!” he shouted, striking right and left like mad with the smoky, half-extinguished flare.

“There—the river!” suddenly cried Beatrice.

Through the columns of the forest she had seen at last the welcome gleam of water, starlit, beautiful and calm. Stern saw it, too. A demon now, he charged the snarling ring. Back he drove them; he turned, seized the bag, and again plunged desperately ahead.

Together he and Beatrice crashed out among the willows and the alders on the sedgy shore, with the vague, shifting, bristling horror of the wolf-pack at their heels.

“Here, beat ‘em off while I cut the cord—while I get the bag in—and shove off!” panted Stern.

She seized the torch from his hand. Up he snatched the rifle again, and with a pointblank volley flung three of the grays writhing and yelling all in the mud and weeds and trampled cattails on the river verge.

Down he threw the gun. He turned and swept the dark shore, there between the ruins of the wharves, with a keen reconnoitering glance.

What? What was this?

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