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diff --git a/41586-h/41586-h.htm b/41586-h/41586-h.htm index 9717039..a024df7 100644 --- a/41586-h/41586-h.htm +++ b/41586-h/41586-h.htm @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <title> The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Red Dust, by Murray Leinster. @@ -172,43 +172,7 @@ table { </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Red Dust, by Murray Leinster - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: The Red Dust - -Author: Murray Leinster - -Release Date: December 9, 2012 [EBook #41586] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RED DUST *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 41586 ***</div> <div class="figcenter"> <img src="images/cover.jpg" alt=""/> @@ -276,18 +240,18 @@ hundred feet in the air. Upon its gravel and boulder-strewn side a commotion became visible.</p> <p>The earth crumbled, and fell into an invisible opening, then a dark -chasm appeared, and two slender, threadlike antennæ peered out.</p> +chasm appeared, and two slender, threadlike antennæ peered out.</p> <p>A warrior ant emerged, and stood for an instant in the daylight, looking all about for signs of danger to the ant-city. He was all of ten inches long, this ant, and his mandibles were fierce and strong. A second and third warrior came from the inside of the ant-hill, and ran with tiny -clickings about the hillock, waving their antennæ restlessly, searching, +clickings about the hillock, waving their antennæ restlessly, searching, ever searching for a menace to their city.</p> <p>They returned to the gateway from which they had made their appearance, evidently bearing reassuring messages, because shortly after they had -reëntered the gateway of the ant-city, a flood of black, ill-smelling +reëntered the gateway of the ant-city, a flood of black, ill-smelling workers poured out of the opening and dispersed upon their business. The clickings of their limbs and an occasional whining stridulation made an incessant sound as they scattered over the earth, foraging among the @@ -451,7 +415,7 @@ which the clotho spider's nest was slung. They were men, degraded remnants of the once dominant race.</p> <p>Burl was their leader, and was distinguished solely by two three-foot -stumps of the feathery, golden antennæ of a night-flying moth he had +stumps of the feathery, golden antennæ of a night-flying moth he had bound to his forehead. In his hand was a horny, chitinous spear, taken from the body of an unknown flying creature killed by the flames of the burning purple hills.</p> @@ -630,7 +594,7 @@ there was no other jaw to meet it. An evil-smelling, sticky liquid exuded from the mangled writhing, thing upon the earth, moving in terrible contortions of torment.</p> -<p>Presently an ant drew near and extended inquisitive antennæ at the +<p>Presently an ant drew near and extended inquisitive antennæ at the helpless monster wounded to death. A shrill stridulation sounded out, and three or four other foot-long ants hastened up to wait patiently just outside the spider's reach until its struggles should have lessened @@ -645,7 +609,7 @@ triumph and walked down the hill in haughty grandeur. He would reproach his timid followers for fleeing from the spider, leaving him to kill it alone.</p> -<p>Quite naïvely Burl assumed that it was his place to give orders and that +<p>Quite naïvely Burl assumed that it was his place to give orders and that of the others to obey. True, no one had attempted to give orders before, or to enforce their execution, but Burl had reached the eminently wholesome conclusion that he was a wonderful person whose wishes should @@ -803,7 +767,7 @@ They slept, while beneath a glowing mushroom at one side of the clearing Burl struggled with his new problem. He squatted upon the ground in the dim radiance of the shining toadstool, his moth-wing cloak wrapped about him, his spear in his hand, and his twin golden plumes of the moth's -antennæ bound to his forehead. But his face was downcast as a child's.</p> +antennæ bound to his forehead. But his face was downcast as a child's.</p> <p>The red mushrooms had begun to burst. Only that day, one of the women, seeking edible fungus for the tribal larder, had seen the fat, distended @@ -995,17 +959,17 @@ the wounded for the same fate.</p> <p>They hung about the edges of the battle, and invaded the abandoned areas when the tide of battle shifted, insect guerrillas, fighting for their own hands, careless of the origin of the quarrel, espousing no cause, -simply salvaging the dead and living débris of the combat.</p> +simply salvaging the dead and living débris of the combat.</p> <p>Burl and his little group of followers had to make a wide detour to avoid the battle itself, and the passage between bodies of reinforcements hurrying to the scene of strife was a matter of some difficulty. The ants running rapidly toward the battle-field were hugely -excited. Their antennæ waved wildly, and the infrequent wounded one, +excited. Their antennæ waved wildly, and the infrequent wounded one, limping back toward the city, was instantly and repeatedly challenged by the advancing insects.</p> -<p>They crossed their antennæ upon his, and required thorough evidence that +<p>They crossed their antennæ upon his, and required thorough evidence that he was of the proper city before allowing him to proceed. Once they arrived at the battle-field they flung themselves into the fray, becoming lost and indistinguishable in the tide of straining, fighting @@ -1057,7 +1021,7 @@ wore loin-cloths of the yellow stuff.</p> <p>There were perils, too, in the journey. On the fourth day of the tribe's traveling, Burl froze suddenly into stillness. One of the hairy tarantulas—a trap-door spider with a black belly—had fallen upon a -scarabæus beetle, and was devouring it only a hundred yards ahead.</p> +scarabæus beetle, and was devouring it only a hundred yards ahead.</p> <p>The tribefolk, trembling, went back for half a mile or more in panic-stricken silence, and refused to advance until he had led them a @@ -1395,7 +1359,7 @@ had come even before the ants appeared to take their toll of the carcass, and not even a buzzing flesh-fly had placed its maggots on the unresisting form.</p> -<p>The long, whiplike antennæ lay upon the carpet of mold and rust, and the +<p>The long, whiplike antennæ lay upon the carpet of mold and rust, and the fiercely toothed legs were drawn close against the body. The many-faceted eyes stared unseeingly, and the stiff and horny wing-cases were rent and torn.</p> @@ -1410,10 +1374,10 @@ time would have ended its life.</p> <p>Burl was thrilled once more by his superlative greatness, and conveniently forgot that it was the red dust that had actually -administered the <i>coup de grâce</i>. It was so much more pleasant to look +administered the <i>coup de grâce</i>. It was so much more pleasant to look upon himself as the mighty slayer that he hacked off one of the barb-edged limbs to carry back to his tribe in evidence of his feat. He -took the long antennæ, too, as further proof.</p> +took the long antennæ, too, as further proof.</p> <p>Then he remembered that he did not know where his tribe was to be found. He had no faintest idea of the direction in which the beetle had flown. @@ -1424,7 +1388,7 @@ it had started.</p> <p>Burl wrestled with his problem for an hour, and then gave up in disgust. He set off at random, with the leg of the huge insect flung over his -shoulder and the long antennæ clasped in his hand with his spear. He +shoulder and the long antennæ clasped in his hand with his spear. He turned to look at his victim of the night before just before plunging into the near-by mushroom forest, and saw that it was already the center of a mass of tiny black bodies, pulling and hacking at the tough armor, @@ -1598,7 +1562,7 @@ gathered from the wound.</p> little clump, their bases so close together that they seemed but one. From between two of them, however, just where they parted, twin tufts of reddish threads appeared, twinkling back and forth, and in and out. As -if they had given some reassuring sign, two slender antennæ followed, +if they had given some reassuring sign, two slender antennæ followed, then bulging eyes, and then a small black body which had bright-red scalloped markings upon the wing-cases.</p> @@ -1702,7 +1666,7 @@ to dream of looking upon the ground.</p> <p>Twenty yards from a huge toadstool thicket a noise arrested him sharply. There was a crashing and breaking of the brittle, spongy growths. Twin -tapering antennæ appeared, and then a monster beetle lurched into the +tapering antennæ appeared, and then a monster beetle lurched into the open space, its horrible, gaping jaws stretched wide.</p> <p>It was all of eight feet long, and its body was held up from the ground @@ -1735,7 +1699,7 @@ torn it from the body of just such a monster but a few hours ago, a monster in whose death he had had a share. With a yell of insane defiance, he flung the fiercely toothed limb at his advancing opponent.</p> -<p>The sharp teeth cut into the base of one of the beetle's antennæ, and it +<p>The sharp teeth cut into the base of one of the beetle's antennæ, and it ducked clumsily, then seized the missile in its fierce jaws and crushed it in frenzy of rage. There was meat within it, sweet and juicy meat that pleased the beetle's palate.</p> @@ -1809,7 +1773,7 @@ of thankfulness, then curious interrogations filled the air.</p> <p>Burl, for once, showed some common sense. Instead of telling them in his usual vainglorious fashion of the adventures he had undergone, he merely -cast down the two long and tapering antennæ from the flying beetle that +cast down the two long and tapering antennæ from the flying beetle that he had torn from its dead body. They looked at them, and recognized their origin. Amazement and admiration showed upon their faces. Then Burl rose and abruptly ordered two of the men to make a chair of their @@ -2134,7 +2098,7 @@ leering silhouettes as of malicious demons rejoicing at the coming doom of the gray-faced, huddled tribefolk.</p> <p>Burl stood still, drooping in discouragement upon his spear, the -feathery moth's antennæ bound upon his forehead shadowed darkly against +feathery moth's antennæ bound upon his forehead shadowed darkly against the graying sky. Soon the mushrooms would begin to burst—</p> <p>Then, suddenly, he lifted his head, encouragement and delight upon his @@ -2335,7 +2299,7 @@ sides covered with flaking molds of an exotic shade of rose-pink, mingled here and there with lavender and purple. Rocks, not hidden beneath a coating of fungus, protruded their angular heads from the hillsides. The river valley became a gorge, and then little more than a -cañon, with beetling sides that frowned down upon the swift current +cañon, with beetling sides that frowned down upon the swift current running beneath them.</p> <p>The small flotilla passed beneath an overhanging cliff, and then shot @@ -2399,7 +2363,7 @@ darkness. All the valley and the plateau were illumined by the shining beacons of huge but graceful fireflies, who darted here and there in delight and—apparently—in security.</p> -<p>Upon the earth below, also, many tiny lights glowed. The larvæ of the +<p>Upon the earth below, also, many tiny lights glowed. The larvæ of the fireflies crawled slowly but happily over the fungus-covered mountainside, and great glow-worms clambered upon the shining tops of the toadstools and rested there, twin broad bands of bluish fire burning @@ -2407,7 +2371,7 @@ brightly within their translucent bodies.</p> <p>They were the females of the firefly race, which never attain to legs and wings, but crawl always upon the earth, merely enlarged creatures in -the forms of their own larvæ. Moths soared overhead with mighty, +the forms of their own larvæ. Moths soared overhead with mighty, throbbing wing-beats, and all the world seemed a paradise through which no evil creatures roamed in search of prey.</p> @@ -2562,7 +2526,7 @@ cocoon. Its wings were folded and lifeless, without substance or color, but the body was a perfect white. The butterfly moved a little distance from its cocoon and slowly unfurled its wings. With the action, life seemed to be pumped into them from some hidden spring in the insect's -body. The slender antennæ spread out and wavered gently in the warm air. +body. The slender antennæ spread out and wavered gently in the warm air. The wings were becoming broad expanses of snowy velvet.</p> <p>A trace of eagerness seemed to come into the butterfly's actions. @@ -2580,7 +2544,7 @@ full of delights and adventures—Burl struck home with his spear.</p> <p>The delicate limbs struggled in agony, the wings fluttered helplessly, and in a little while the butterfly lay still upon the fungus-carpeted earth, and Burl leaned over to strip away the great wings of snow-white -velvet, to sever the long and slender antennæ, and then to call his +velvet, to sever the long and slender antennæ, and then to call his tribesmen and bid them share in the food he had for them.</p> <p>And there was a feast that afternoon. The tribesmen sat about the white @@ -2736,381 +2700,6 @@ his in the obscurity. 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