...Behind the wheel of the weatherbeaten, sunburned car, Dean Rawson squintedhis eyes against the glare...
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...ive hours of driving, and Rawson walked into the office of Erickson,Incorporated, with a steady step...
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..."Yes," said Rawson, "it is a gamble...
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..."Even that does not damn the scheme; but, Rawson, there's only one factorwe gamble on...
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...But to Rawson, there was more than the eye could see...
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..."Gold mine!" Rawson echoed...
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...Five days, then one hour of boring, and another five days to pull out thedrill before Rawson could hope for his answer...
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...But Rawson, looking dazedly into Smithy's eyes, said only: "It'scold—the bailer's cold...
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...And then, when he and Smithy had driven away from camp with thedistant city as their announced destination, Rawson still did not godirectly to the mountain grade...
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..."Are you telling me?" Rawson asked grimly...
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..."Come on," said Rawson...
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...Then Rawson moved, looked past, and founda true perspective for the phenomenon...
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...ut the casting!" Smithy protested when he and Rawson were alone...
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...And he, Rawson, had been so sure he would find traceshere that would allow him to give that opposing force a name...
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...ome three hours later Rawson was not smiling as he climbed the steelladder of the great derrick; he was grimly intent upon the job at hand...
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...Slowly Rawson began to feel the return flow of life through his body; theshock had jarred every nerve to insensibility...
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...And nothing Smithy could say seemed able to reach Rawson and swerve himfrom his single idea...
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..."You'll be safe on the road," Rawson told him, while he filled a canteenwith water in preparation for his own trip...
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...Was Rawson out of his mind? He could notbe sure...
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...And, even as he shrankinvoluntarily from that touch, Rawson wondered how the creature couldreach out and grip him so surely in the dark...
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...Two of the redfigures came toward Rawson where he was waiting...
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...ow far his guard of wild, red man-things had taken him Dean Rawson couldnot know...
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