![]() Both wore their hats pulled low over their eyes. Coffin Ed stepped inside, closed the door behind him and leaned back against it. While they were staring, he went quickly across to the window and drew the shade. The door had opened quietly, and Grave Digger had come into the room. At the same time he drove his knee into the man's groin and butted him in the face. His hand shot out and trapped the guard's hand where it snatched at the pistol, jamming it back down into its holster. I'll go as high as I can before the sun comes over the horizon. I would never have told him if it was.I've figured a method. And suddenly there was a great exhilaration in me because I realized I meant it! It wasn't just some fancy. He was making me laugh against my will.Tonight's a fine night for doing it, I said.No, I'm going. Apart from the hissing of the pressure lamp, there was no sound inside the hut other than the metallic drumfire of the ice spicules against the icesheathed eastern wall of the hut. ![]() Lying packed closely together in a rough semicircle at the end of the room, far from the door, they were utterly still, as unmoving as men would be if they had been lying that way for a frozen eternity. Shapeless, huddled, lifeless forms lying under a shapeless mass of blankets, mackinaws, duffels and furs I wouldn't have bet a cent on my chances of finding one heartbeat among the bunch. I had seen many dead men in my life, I knew what dead men looked like, and now I was looking at just that many more. My first thought, conviction rather, and one that struck at me with a heart-sapping sense of defeat, with a chill that even the polar storm outside had been unable to achieve, was that we had arrived too late.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |