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nized. "For the love of God, Angus!"

The man before them answered only with another hissing cry, a cry echoed again by the hordes who rushed up the mound's sides toward his aid.

And then David shot him down. Warren heard the pistol crack, beside him, and saw the mad figure before them crumple to the ground, a spreading red stain on the breast of his shirt. Then he had leapt over and past that prostrate figure and was at the switches in the cylinder's side, was jamming the great red one frenziedly upward, just as the hordes of toad-men from below rushed up onto the mound's summit.

As the great switch clicked beneath his hands the mighty shaft of light above vanished, and at the same moment there vanished with it the flood of tropical heat about them, replaced instantly by the bitter polar cold, that searing, icy cold which the great heat-magnet alone had held at bay. And beneath that cold the toad-men on the summit were stumbling and falling, writhing and twisting and then lying still, the white of their bodies changing swiftly to black. Far out on the island and over all its surface was rising a confused babel of whispering cries and speech, that cut short and ceased as the mighty hordes from the domes fell beneath the icy sword of the arctic cold. The toad-men who had slept for ages had arisen from that sleep to be annihilated. The polar race had awakened at last—to death.

Warren turned, now, saw his companion kneeling beside the man on the ground, stepped to his side and with him gazed down into the face of the dying scientist. It was a face from which the madness had been suddenly wiped away, from which the man's wide eyes looked up at them uncomprehendingly.

"Why, Davie!" he said, staring up into his brother's face with infinite surprize and wonder; "why, Davie

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