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CHAPTER XV FLIGHT AND PURSUIT
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I could not have been unconscious more than a few seconds, and yet I know that I was unconscious, for the next thing I realized was that a growing radiance was illuminating1 the corridor about me and the eyes were gone.
I was unharmed except for a slight bruise2 upon my forehead where it had struck the stone flagging as I fell.
I sprang to my feet to ascertain3 the cause of the light. It came from a torch in the hand of one of a party of four green warriors5, who were coming rapidly down the corridor toward me. They had not yet seen me, and so I lost no time in slipping into the first intersecting corridor that I could find. This time, however, I did not advance so far away from the main corridor as on the other occasion that had resulted in my losing Tars6 Tarkas and his guards.
The party came rapidly toward the opening of the passageway in which I crouched7 against the wall. As they passed by I breathed a sigh of relief. I had not been discovered, and, best of all, the party was the same that I had followed into the pits. It consisted of Tars Tarkas and his three guards.
I fell in behind them and soon we were at the cell in which the great Thark had been chained. Two of the warriors remained without while the man with the keys entered with the Thark to fasten his irons upon him once more. The two outside started to stroll slowly in the direction of the spiral runway which led to the floors above, and in a moment were lost to view beyond a turn in the corridor.
The torch had been stuck in a socket8 beside the door, so that its rays illuminated9 both the corridor and the cell at the same time. As I saw the two warriors disappear I approached the entrance to the cell, with a well-defined plan already
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warriors
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武士,勇士,战士( warrior的名词复数 ) | |
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latch
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manifestation
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lessening
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