World Beneath Ice by John Russell Fearn

Author:John Russell Fearn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: science fiction, adventure, Golden Amazon, superwomen, pulp fiction
ISBN: 9781434447517
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2012-12-23T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

REVENGE OF THE AMAZON

The engineer and his fellow technicians stared in wonder for a moment at the mightily muscled stranger; then pressure of events forced them to work again, But this time it was the Amazon who gave the directions, not the chief engineer—and he was content to relinquish himself to her greater knowledge.

Whirring and grinding, the drills bit gradually through the debris, while the men and the Amazon hurled aside the heavy material that the multiple excavators could not easily grasp.

So, within forty minutes a passage through the rock and rubble had been bored. The Amazon was the first to squeeze down through the narrow space and drop into the cavern below. Here she found about 100 people. The metal walls sagged dangerously around them, the only light they possessed coming from the batteries with which they had been operating their radio.

The Amazon glanced over the assembly swiftly, then her gaze moved to those who were lying flat, their relatives or friends kneeling beside them.

“Chris!” the Amazon exclaimed suddenly, and hurried over to the dirt-streaked man kneeling beside Ethel. Ethel herself, motionless, her face blood-smeared, was muttering incoherently.

“She’s dying, Vi,” Chris whispered. He was too stunned by the events to ask any questions of her reason for being present. “She got crushed in the rocks. Can’t last much longer.”

The Amazon glanced about her. Chris interpreted the action.

“My wife is in one of the other caverns,” he said. “Quite safe so far.”

The Amazon got up from her knees as Abna and the engineers, followed by others from the upper cavern, came down into view.

“Listen, you people,” she said, raising her voice. “You can think of me as you like, but it is an undeniable fact that many of you may yet die if you don’t follow me from here on and ignore whatever other orders you may have been given. These shelters are rotten! They have got to be rebuilt before it’s too late. How many of you are prepared to throw Torrington’s lying propaganda overboard and follow me?”

“All of us!” a man yelled. “We never did believe that big-mouthed moneybags anyway!”

“All right, then. Here are your first orders. Get everybody possible up to the higher cavern and there stop for the time being. Issue radio instructions for all those in deep caverns to come as near the surface as possible. Now give me a hand to get the injured out of here. I’ll deal with Miss Wilson; you folks look after the others.”

The Amazon returned to Ethel’s side and caught at the girl’s hand. For a moment Ethel’s incoherency seemed to leave her and she gazed into the steady violet eyes dully.

“Hello— Aunt Vi,” she whispered. “It’s nice to know you’re around again. Nobody but you can get things straight. I’m finished, Aunt....”

The Amazon pulled down the overcoat that Chris had thrown over the girl’s legs. She wondered how Ethel came to be alive at all, so mercilessly had the rocks crushed her legs and body.

“May I look?” asked Abna quietly.

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