The Return of the Nyctalope by Jean de La Hire

Author:Jean de La Hire
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Black Coat Press
Published: 2014-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Ariste Fageat was an imperfect criminal, like the majority of criminals, but unlike the great majority of them, he was intelligent in the logical anticipation of events. The first hours that he spent in the world of the Nocturnals were judiciously employed.

Firstly, he allowed Rrou sand Ggo to explain themselves and him, as fully as possible, to the numerous and soon innumerable Nocturnals they encountered, who assembled and came running, clustering around them, and finally immobilizing them. To half a dozen “chiefs” one of whom was indubitably the “supreme chief,” the Woo of that population, Rrou and Ggo spoke for a long time, not because they were making long speeches—the Nocturnal vocabulary being very restricted—but because they each repeated their extraordinary story and their difficult explanations several times over.

Then Ariste Fageat thought it useful to make, by the light of his camouflaged lamp, held twenty paces away from Rrou, a few demonstrations of the mortal power of his rifle and pistol. For that purpose, Ggo had brought two quadrumanes from a reserve stock of those living animals, which the Nocturnal carefully maintained in their grottoes.

After that, Fageat thought it equally useful to acquaint the Nocturnals with the binding, unbearable light of his uncamouflaged electric torch—and he saw immediately that all the Nocturnals present, headed by the chiefs, recognized him as a great all-powerful Woo, come from the extrarhean world represented in the minds of Noturnal Rheans by what Terrans called the moon, the Earth and the stars.

“Good!” he said, with satisfaction. “Here I am, tranquil in my power. And now, let’s insure against the probable—the certain—arrival of the Nyctalope and his companions. Time’s pressing. Better to make my troops wait for hours than be a single minute late!”

And to the chief of the Nocturnals, whose name was Tugg, he explained via Rrou and Ggo that although he, the “great Woo Fagg”—that was the Nocturnally-pronounceable name he had given himself—was animated by the best sentiments toward the world of the Nocturnals, his companions, five in number, wanted, by contrast, to fight the Nocturnals on behalf of the Diurnals. So he, Fagg, had to make arrangements so that the five enemies, when they arrived, would be put beyond the possibility of doing any harm in the blink of an eye.

The chief, Tugg, approved vehemently—and Fageat gave his orders to Ggo and Rrou.

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