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David, though, wasted no glance upon them, pushing rapidly on, until both men were sweating profusely in the tropical warmth. It was with an effort that Warren remembered himself to be within a few hundred miles of the supreme icy desolation of the pole itself.

The great light-shaft ahead was growing in apparent size as they forged on toward it, and McQuirk had begun to move more carefully, more quietly. Suddenly he flung himself prostrate oh the ground, pulling Warren down beside him. In a moment there passed over them a buzzing, dwindling whine, and then they saw, silhouetted against the white brilliance ahead, a dozen or more dark shapes that were dropping smoothly down toward the mound from which the light sprang.

"The first raiders!" McQuirk was whispering. "They've come back; God knows where they've been!"

The two lay motionless for a moment, then crept stealthily on. Through the unending lanes of gleaming domes they threaded their way, forging on and on, until at last they were within a few thousand feet of the dark, low mound of the light, and could catch a few drifting fragments of whispering, clicking speech from the mound itself, and once a snatch of human-voiced imitation of the former, at which Warren felt his arm convulsively gripped by the other. And now they had slowed their progress to a crawl, and were creeping onward with infinite stealth and patience, hiding as much as possible from the revealing light from ahead behind the domes and their shadows, crawling from shadow to shadow and drawing ever nearer toward the sides of the low, broad mound.

At last they had reached the end of the forest of domes which encircled

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