The Golden Amazon's Triumph (The Original Golden Amazon Saga Book 3) by John Russell Fearn

Author:John Russell Fearn [Fearn, John Russell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lume Books
Published: 2017-04-23T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER VIII

With rests ever and again for refreshment and brief sleep, the party continued the journey for nearly forty hours — then at last the jungle began to show signs of thinning, and they came to a bare and rocky plateau, flanked in the far distance by part of Half-way Range, the scum of creamy cloud reaching down nearly to its foothills.

Mueller halted and waited for the others to catch up with him.

“There it is,” he said, pointing. “My city. Quite extensive, isn’t it?”

Kerrigan, already acquainted with it, passed no comment; but the others gazed across the base expanse to buildings composed entirely of heavy blocks of black stone. The architecture was somehow medieval, suggestive of long-dead ruins of cities on Earth which have been discovered from time to time. There were streets dividing the rows of buildings, and here and there a black dome towered. Altogether the whole place gave a conflicting impression of both ruin and beauty.

The survey finished, Mueller led the way onwards again, and in another hour they had reached the first buildings. He led the way inside one of them, along a gaunt, delightfully cool passage, and finally into an immense room. The surprising thing was that three huge fans, electrically driven, were swinging round lazily in the glazed stone ceiling, and there was also a generous assortment of quite normal looking furniture.

There were divans, arm-chairs, rugs, carpets, cushions, tables — raffia-like shades half lowered over the big glassless windows to lessen the torrid wind blowing from jungle and mountains.

“As you will observe,” Mueller remarked, seeing the wondering expressions, “I have been quite busy in the past five years. Little by little my Earth agents smuggled necessities to me in the shape of machine tools…However, this is my own room for general purposes. While I have a meal prepared for us, we can all wash and change. I have everything arranged, even to clothes. And rooms are ready for you. That is, Miss Dodd, if you will share with Miss Brant just for now? I will remedy the matter later. You, Commander, had better use my dressing-room for the moment. I trust you ladies will manage with male attire similar to what you are wearing now? Now, come this way.”

After turning to a panel covered with buttons and giving his order for a meal, he motioned to a door. The party followed him to it.

Beyond it was a long corridor, down which Mueller strode, pausing finally at yet another door. He swung it open into a wide, well-furnished room, very much like a lounge in a modern hotel, only smaller.

“From here,” Mueller explained, nodding to doors, “lead bedrooms. One for you, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, and one for you, Miss Brant — and Miss Dodd. You will find everything you need within them, I fancy. You come with me, Commander…We will meet again in the main room in half an hour.”

When the party returned they found the meal perfectly laid out. There were fruits, essences,

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