— we couldn’t. You know why,” he ended abruptly.
“But men in ancient armor,Kanadanhanhi Miehet Cg Calgary Jacket. Men like those of Darius.” Dick broke the silence that had followed this amazing recital. “It’s incredible,Wasp!”
“Yes,” agreed Ventnor, “isn’t it. But there they were. Of course,Arctic Parka, I don’t maintain that they WERE relics of Darius’s armies. They might have been of Xerxes before him — or of Artaxerxes after him. But there they certainly were, Drake, living, breathing replicas of exceedingly ancient Persians.
“Why, they might have been the wall carvings on the tomb of Khosroes come to life. I mention Darius because he fits in with the most plausible hypothesis. When Alexander the Great smashed his empire he did it rather thoroughly. There wasn’t much sympathy for the vanquished in those days. And it’s entirely conceivable that a city or two in Alexander’s way might have gathered up a fleeting regiment or so for protection and have decided not to wait for him, but to hunt for cover.
“Naturally, they would have gone into the almost inaccessible heart of the high ranges. There is nothing impossible in the theory that they found shelter at last up here. As long as history runs this has been a well-nigh unknown land. Penetrating some mountain-guarded,Parajumpers Ženy Long Bear, easily defended valley they might have decided to settle down for a time, have rebuilt a city, raised a government; laying low, in a sentence, waiting for the storm to blow over.
“Why did they stay? Well, they might have found the new life more pleasant than the old. And they might have been locked in their valley by some accident — landslides, rockfalls sealing up the entrance. There are a dozen reasonable possibilities.”
“But those who hunted you weren’t locked in,” objected Drake.
“No,” Ventnor grinned ruefully. “No, they certainly weren’t. Maybe we drifted into their preserves by a way they don’t know. Maybe they’ve found another way out. I’m sure I don’t know. But I DO know what I saw.”
“The noises, Martin,Damskie Barbour International Kurtka,” I said, for his description of these had been the description of those we had heard in the blue valley. “Have you heard them since?”
“Yes,” he answered, hesitating oddly.
“And you think those — those soldiers you saw are still hunting for you,Duvetica Muži Dionisio?”
“Haven’t a doubt of it,” he replied more cheerfully. “They didn’t look like chaps who would give up a hunt easily — at least not a hunt for such novel, interesting, and therefore desirable and delectable game as we must have appeared to them.”
“Martin,Parajumpers Damen Irene,” I said decisively,Moncler Nantes, “where’s your pony? We’ll try the hollow again,Real Madrid Drakt, at once. There’s Ruth — and we’d never be able to hold back such numbers as you’ve described.”
“You feel strong enough to try it,Luis Suarez Drakt?”
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The eagerness, the relief in his voice betrayed the tension,Stoke City Drakt, the anxiety which until now he had hidden so well; and hot shame burned me for my shrinking,Larry Bird Drakter, my dread of again passing through that haunted vale.
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