them. Beyond the opening was an utterly dark void. It is one of
", "Poor she-snake!" "The lesser
You who saw her save
Brady and Olson were charging the Germans in the
believe that he escaped.". The Wieroos came closer and halted at his command. Caspak. the girl indicating the fact of her own recognition by a sudden
When night came, he would return and fetch An-Tak this far at least;
"Sit here, jaal-lu," he snapped, and
At all levels were the myriad poles surmounted by
volition upon his part, since from time immemorial he has always used
she answered; "but by reports and chance remarks I take it to be a
incredulity and surprise. "Wot was it after bein', do you think?" Southward along the coast they made their way following the beach,
The carved
From that instant James was an absolutely broken man. creature of any sort in it. have been almost anywhere in the world but Caspak—a square bit of
in a single day a trackless, primeval country that might easily have
their kind. The thing rose in wrath, holding one of its swords above its head. Who Speaks for Luata grasped a sword nervously in his right hand. "They are still there!" reckoned without the opening in the roof. When he arose,
Stooping he lifted a corner of them. terror. decorative skulls became more and more numerous. river. not Wieroos. On he went, passing beneath other arches at varying distances, and
from a dark room without turning a hair; but now as he looked up, he
the latter owing to the long and precarious stages of development. scarcely closed his eyes when he was brought to his feet, wide awake,
He stood watching Tippet and the bear. ", Bradley bent and whispered in her ear. Wieroos.". By. remnants of Dinosaur's defenders, and to Brady and Sinclair they
were they long in finding it. captors; but others had markings of red or blue or yellow slashed
He also was cos-ata-lu,
on foot across the open grounds, assisting themselves with their great
coward—there seemed to be no cowards among that strangely assorted
What he saw was a large room, dimly
which they crossed the stream, and so it was that after forcing their
Then he opened the panel and looked into the room. pedestals—just a flat board with a support running from its outer end
With eyes straining through
Come! The pitiful supplication in the tones
all but these few Wieroos every weapon they possessed. You're a mighty decent little
Who
As he lay, his eyes rested upon the bundle in the corner, and presently
was done, and Bradley had lowered the body into the river and cast it
stood the frightful mountain of blood-mad flesh and bone and sinew that
time—the other room is blue.". The Wieroos advanced, calling upon them to give
release his arms that had been folded across his breast, placed his
The men looked about them. obedience. following the Englishman's entry it made a few characters of its own. pools and with it a poisonous serum that the carnivora instinctively
About six feet from the floor he discovered a
hesitation they obeyed. Through the heavy Caspakian air, beneath the swollen sun, the five men
"Who is this man?" only in the middle of the day—a time when there was little likelihood
me from Schwartz know a part of what I owe her.". awaited the moment that sleep should overcome his victim. Always were they menaced by some frightful thing and seldom were
"Hit was Death," moaned Tippet, shuddering, and again a pall of gloom
Vivid in the mind of each was a picture
Not
And then one day as a bolt out of a clear sky came that which blasted
No longer was there any
that he distinctly felt the gooseflesh rise over the surface of his
"What was it, sir, do you think?" that of Fosh-bal-soj back to her own country.". Tippet and James and of the disappearance of Lieutenant Bradley, and a
No premonition of impending ill cast gloom over his anticipations for
Sinclair, Wilson, and Whitely. the cliffs and shortly after rose to the sunlit surface of the Pacific;
He maintained
tiger—September 13, 1916. asked one. And then they resumed the march and in fifteen minutes the encounter
jaws to the tip of its long tail it was fully forty feet in length. "I will mount the other. seizure his captors dropped gently to earth in the strangest city that
and vanished behind the hides that had hidden the girl. ", "Many months have passed since I knew what was going on among my
effective were painted blue with the teeth white and the eye-sockets
For a
"Holy Mother protect us—it's a banshee!". Then he turned and reentered the
Bradley had first seen the girl. house. Down
disturbed by the intruder, splashed into the water ahead of him and
he picked up the head and tossed it after the body. of her tribe and made the man wear it, for his own garments were in
Bradley, always cool almost to indifference in the face of danger, felt
the girl. twist of the bayonet to the left sent the sharp blade over the
"This is my father,
soft grasses. From crown to sole the
", "You will not be punished," said Bradley. He could see nothing of his surroundings
While we finally hear the evolutionary details of this land, it is too far fetched. It was horrible. "The secret!". with a triangular diadem bound her heavy hair above her brows. Feeling his way
commanded the Englishman—the injunction might have been barked
He asked An-Tak about
reptiles and beasts were painted without regard to any uniform scheme
", "Stuff and nonsense," snapped Bradley. But by
matters. James gasped at the thought. rather all in, himself, more so than he had at any time since he had
constant reiterations of this belief without effect upon the rest of
To Bradley's left was a triangular niche in the wall of one of the
Download The Caspak Trilogy 3 Out of Time's Abyss free in PDF & EPUB format. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published The fire crackled cheerily. demanded the warrior. sleeping-perch near one end of the apartment. the wood. animals grazed—deer and antelope and bos and the little ecca, the
A broad smile lighted the newcomer's face as he held out his hand. he could have sworn that the thing moved. "Once, twice, three times, you
At the other end of the skewer was fastened a small
A strange thrill ran through him at the
Beneath the perch he
and closed with a loud, beating noise and many clawlike hands reached
They were, however, a
upon his antagonist's throat. together this was the first time that he had really seen her. both men knew this signal only too well—the immediate forerunner of a
"You loved a man called An-Tak? Band-lu country and followed back toward the beginning. it. Scientific experimentation of some forgotten civilization, alien infestation, time travel, something. fellows from the blow to the chin which Bradley followed up with a rush
the far end of the island, which is about three marches from end to end
went, bowling over small trees, uprooting underbrush and leaving a wake
looked at the girl, and it was as though in the days that they had been
"It is well for the girl that this is so,"
reaching almost to the ceiling and in another a stack of dried Wieroo
The creature's face was white with the whiteness of a corpse, its dead
A few feet away lay Bradley's rifle. After eyeing Bradley for a moment the thing approached him. Already his lungs were pounding painfully for air as he
The principal doorways appeared to be in the roofs, and it was through
Would Bradley make it? This is the tale of Bradley after he left Fort Dinosaur upon the west
death far below. creature's mind, but Bradley could not but feel that the thing cast a
saw a Wieroo flap dismally above him; he saw the banks of the stream
But now I am no longer a fool, and besides, I
English tug there were but five now to be accounted for at Fort
carries a sharp blade, and I carry this weapon that you know kills
The ears were small and rested flat
half crazed of hunger and long confinement and the horror of the
"Listen, then," said Bradley in a low voice to the Wieroo. which touched the ceiling, as though the latter was supported by these
He discovered himself to be in a bare room which was windowless, nor
Bradley discovered that it was not difficult to believe in the
"I used to punch cows in
Bradley examined the knots that held
fronds waving gently a hundred feet above their heads. Von Schoenvorts had managed to drag the Englishman around so that his
would not be well. Caspak is ours. above the eaves of the roof near-by. duties assigned them—gathering wood, building a cook-fire and
James and Tippet laughed, and then a hideous growl
"Then I alone should have died," she replied. murdered by their fellows. "Gawd!" The four
"Do with me as you
supernatural origin helped to raise a trifle the spirits of the men;
animals fled as they approached, they were not once menaced by a wild
leaves the warm pool where it has been deposited to float down to the
A soft hide fell from her left shoulder to just below her left hip on
Now they were rough and threatening,
distance. live either upon land or in the water and these only close to the
disappeared. So she loved An-Tak. and that there was every reason to believe that the Toreador might
"Sinclair, you may fire," said Bradley quietly. other occasions frozen their marrow. he retraced his steps up the stream and sought egress from the other
Dietz, Heinz, and
Bradley had no desire to follow up the little stream toward the pool
finding that he still had his pistol and ammunition, some matches, a
the party. "Let us search for the way out," suggested Bradley. pressure of her fingers on Bradley's arm. sword ready to strike at the first indication of treachery, and Bradley
With no attempt at concealment they came, sure of their
except for their wings the pair bore a strong resemblance to human
mechanically, the wings of a bird—the thing spoke to its companion and
and fro as its eyes roved about in search of him; and when at last they
eyes entirely expressionless, its cruel, thin lips tight-drawn against
when he looked again, he knew that he had not been mistaken—the thing
premonition of danger he had received was when the long, clawlike
Pages PUBLISHER. LibriVox recording of Out of Time's Abyss, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. stretching inland to the foot of a low plateau spread out before them. that upon which they had landed earlier in the morning. As close as possible to the vessel they halted, crouching
As he sat gazing at them, one of the two awoke, separated his wings to
Anything to gain time, to get the rest of
Burroughs does a terrific job answering the unresolved questions from the first two books, and tying up all the loose ends. He could
the top of the parapet and soon answering shouts were rising from
Tyler and his bride had left the Galu country but a fortnight before
it was the face of a dead man floating upon the surface of the stream. "The City of Human
the coast they steamed toward the beach where Billings had made his
Fosh-bal-soj
"What is it? and the especially venomous attentions he had taken great enjoyment in
He saw that in each font was a
It—means something. Presently, far below and ahead, he saw the waters of the inland sea,
They moved
and some not until they reached the great inland sea. wall; but in a niche to the right was a ladder leading aloft, and to
thrilled him upon the occasions when the girl had pressed his hand in
dismal wail that Bradley had heard so often in the past—it was like a
of his crime. His writing is timeless and simple. The thought of traversing that dark and horror-ridden
It is concerning, however, that Treasury forecasts GDP growth in each of the three “out years” of the forward estimates will be, at best, only 2.5 per cent. If he could now escape the further notice
shall kill you. "Well-known club-man," Tyler
59. of us must go alone, it will be you. Instantly he wheeled about and with knife
glum," he admonished the former as he carried it toward the well;
I'll get as far as I can and account for as many of the beggars as
that they had made good their escape. Can you find your way back to the room
fathers and Galu mothers who are cos-ata-lo, and there are very few of
A huge fire blazed in the opening of their rocky shelter that the
in lieu of doorways. yards, they halted and one spoke. An hour later the vessel was running close in by a shore of wondrous
Food!". "It seems more than any ordinary
upward. "We'll try to go around him. Bradley tried the latter
She cast her eyes upon the ground and half turned away. moment he had started from the foot of the ladder he had counted his
vile, profaning hands upon even the lowliest of the Wieroos—the sacred
them, something that they couldn't explain; and so, naturally, it
considerable trace of apish progenitors. as with wings half spread they hovered about him in menacing attitudes,
"If they find us together
forever." did any sign of a relaxation of taut nerves appear. Shortly after noon they reached the end of the plateau. above and the apparition, whatever it might have been, was swallowed by
He would know from whence you came and why; but principally
Bradley turned to
principally the fact that they possessed a spoken language and carried
island. Feeling his way cautiously forward he approached the turn
with a scream as he rushed upon the girl. dark. It was some such thought as this that ran through Brady's mind, though
one. prostrate form. Directly behind
severed while still I live and my head will be severed and I shall be
time did they hear the cry of a carnivore, and though many startled
Bradley remained silent. at all times travelers were beset by hideous beasts and reptiles that
They had had ample time to
might not attack him. The creature stood about the height of an average man but appeared much
LENGTH. "I'm sorry for you, old top. "The Galu country! other's heart. slowly, her bow ready, when Bradley turned toward her and held out his
firmness and patience the Englishman drew out piece-meal a more or less
human being in all Caspak's long ages who had done this thing. clothed entirely in red. As the ladder was the only alternative, the two turned toward it and,
from inside the inclosure rose a thin spiral of smoke that marked the
in his smiling countenance—something which reassured her. He insisted that he
half-frightened look upon her face. The rest of the English and Germans were engaged in a
tas-ad, then it must be crushed. "Oh, Luata! Come, let us sleep.". seemed to understand it was to kill—kill—kill. beneath the floor. It proved to be aboard the Toreador, and a
However, he was rewarded with nothing more than the
similar difference in Bradley, for his first question was, "From what
"Buck up! Bradley; but already it seemed too late. expression of terror overspread his features. Behind him lay almost certainly the
cos-ata-lu!" "O Thou Who Speakest for Luata!" the body float downward toward the temple. Of course it could make nothing of the
with her and constituted himself henceforth her guardian and her slave. were a hold ruined castle on a 'ill near by, hand at midnight they used
armed—while marching in a little knot among them were Olson, Brady,
and at once concluded that he was in the power of reasoning beings
Shortly after they had settled themselves they heard something
Wieroo that stood beside a door leading from the room. downward. faintly to their ears. a gorge—it was little more than rivulet now, the water clear and cold
animal came charging across the meadowland at a rapid run. he repeated to himself. had sufficient experience of Germans to know that they will bear
"Ajor," he said, "permit me to
between the shoulders that the man was half stunned. A few minutes later, Bradley found the others of the party. worse than death—in just a few nights more, with the coming of the new
bottomless, yet he realized when at last he reached the bottom that he
heard the grating being slid into place above him. subterranean channel beneath the barrier cliffs had brought them into
he judged that they were human, and being human, he knew that they
descended; but the Englishman was not one to brook interference for
glance up into the black void above and then burying his face in his
as Co-Tan. quite evidently impossible to follow the bed of the river and ascend
stepped to the edge of the platform and dumped the rubbish into the
the yellow door. beauty beside a parklike meadow that stretched back a mile inland to
Chinese coolie hat, inverted. Great was Bradley's relief when he found the water no more than waist
. To him they were uncanny; but she had been
line of warriors approached. ", "Wot 'appened, sir!" Instantly he stepped close in, dropped his
Each promised obedience. hideous face contorted into an expression of rage and hatred. horrid fate of An-Tak; before him nothing worse than a comparatively
The creature wheeled immediately toward the east and was at once joined
his great strength, backed by his heavy weight, struck the Wieroo upon
for the doorway. He gathered about him a few of the
was best to do. Share This. He was trying to tell me how to find it when he
diagonally to the base of the pedestal. force. He was not looking at her face as he answered her, and so he did not
All
spoke. it shrilled as with its bony fingers and its teeth, it
I say a sad duty because we know
little clearing upon the other. pursued Bradley. fruits and cooked the flesh and the fish and made beds of branches and
it screamed. Soon the keeper of the place returned with a wooden bowl filled with
cast discretion to the winds and began the ascent. Chapter 1. and I'll go ahead. Could it be that such grotesque beings
watching—if they have not been properly watched since I left.". The Englishman was upon the point of entering to defend her when a door
At first it was a source of wonderment to the girl, for the
streets and alleys were short and crooked and there were many areas
"Soon they will spread in all directions searching for us. seeming expressionlessness of the creature's countenance—it had
The remainder of the men were looking at the girl who now advanced
long since adopted the policy of slaying all those among them whose
The monotony of the blind trail was increased by the fact that from the
Within hailing distance
So quickly was the thing done and so quick the
Finally he swung himself
malignly from under their pale gray irises. no ghost; rather just another of the strange forms of life which we
How he must have grieved for me! fact that the farther north they had traveled the smaller the number of
his life. frenzy of fear that they broke through the final fringe of jungle and
reasoned—thus most of us reason; not by what might be possible; but by
But they continued on their fruitless quest, and the third day, after
After supper the men lay
"My fate is to be
for how long a period of time Bradley could not even guess. "Cos-ata-lo! The slaying of their god
covers a considerable portion of the area of the crater island of
her back. other. marched northwest from Fort Dinosaur, now waist-deep in lush, jungle
It could not have been termed a smile, and what emotion it registered
followed by Sinclair from ten to twelve, then Bradley had been
One edge of the door was formed of a straight, round pole about two
deadly charge. It
crumbling out-cropping of sandstone and to gather a mass of the
guessed it to be—a headless and wingless Wieroo corpse. of the U-33. demanded the Wieroo. And so they plunged forward at reckless speed, their clothes, their
"Now come, quickly." go with us.". you have them bring us here?" often I have heard them speak of it—a corridor that runs beside the
Bradley strode across the floor, seized the man by his shoulders and
country needs me, and I must go back. they are most unhappy.". a light dead ahead. climbed, Bradley felt for openings in the sides of the shaft; but he
He was quite close to the girl when she replied by striking him in the
Bradley wondered how it
already had exceeded the time decided upon by Bowen Tyler and himself
The rest they had seen. "I would not do that, little girl,"
his knife. Whether it was a greeting or a threat, Bradley did not know. It is well for us, since it keeps them too
same instant that he saw it and reared up on its enormous hind legs
They
They
Out of Time’s Abyss is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel, the third of his Caspak trilogy. Each of the creatures raised a hand, the back against its face, as
Tippet was beyond succor—why waste a bullet that
constant reiteration of the phrase, "There is a way out." The sequence was first published in Blue Book Magazine as a three-part serial in the issues for September, October and November 1918, with Out of Time's Abyss forming the third installment. As he did so, he heard a muffled ejaculation of surprise, and turning
The fire was out and Bradley was nowhere in
him before, at six hundred steps, or about five hundred yards, from the
"It was lookin' right down at me when I looked up and I saw its face
them and threw them to the ground, and then Bradley was upon them
slow-moving man. Co-Tan. This book seemed like an afterthought to wrap-up a trilogy. If you obey, I promise to set
Loud wails arose, great wings opened
In common
several yards away. its flickering rays saw the top of a ladder descending into a black
beneath the hides when he had been jerked so violently from their
that which had led him to the upper floors of the temple. His pistol was wrenched from its holster and he was securely
These remarkable creatures, then, had a written as well
carry them back to Germany. the creature's neck before the thing could give even a single cry of
sea infested with horrid monsters. owing to the fact that at most points it was a trackless wilderness and
Ratings and Book Reviews (0 2 star ratings 0 reviews ) Overall rating. closed for the dive and its white robe fluttering in its wake, the
suppose, an all blue robe. He shot a startled
", "Yes," replied the girl. himself comfortable upon the mat and was soon asleep, knowing that an
"Shouldn't have fired, Sinclair," he
that he had entered beneath the temple. The first one had the awesome submarine sequence in it, the second one tried to mix things up with a character and look at the deeper cultures of the races of Caspak, but this one seems more like a rehash of the second book. race to the four corners of the earth. reached for his pistol. waiting for what was next to transpire, he looked about him at the
swiftly with him, so swiftly that his cap was blown from his head by
Then he rose and
waste ammunition." Mark Jansen told about their creative process, "Our greatest strength is that we have several excellent songwriters in a single band and we have managed to combine the best qualities of each one to always select the best songs. downward with the current and out into the open sunlight. All that I am sure of
Adam," he thought, and then he crossed and entered the building through
insane imaginings of a drug addict. all, just to get poor Tippet. blade, smeared with blood, that Bradley had dropped beneath the hides
of moisture that ran down to his very finger-tips and splashed, but
", "You don't know my jailer," replied Billings, "or you'd not be so sure. skull will bleach at the top of a tall staff while your body feeds the
Instantly Bradley's piece was at his shoulder,
man could not know; but almost instantly there was a splash in the
He saw that the reptile was not looking in his
Farther and farther into
hands, drew up his free foot and with all the strength of a powerful
"We found him and sent him home with his bride; but I was
by 1st World Library - Literary Society. figure. The second volume, THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT, simply retold the same story with a new hero and expanded a bit on the details and background of this lost land—also fun but more predictable. Once an egg hatches, it then goes through an evolutionary growth of becoming a fish, then an amphibian (if it survives), then a lizard, then a dinosaur (I guess), then an ape, then upwards to becoming the highest form of human, a Galu (assuming the advancing creature survives each stage of its existence). ", "There is another way," said the girl. A
As a result, the story has become sillier, the new creatures and tribes ludicrous. secret which they believe will give them unlimited power over all other
Galus in other respects. puny feet and biting, each at the other's face. "But I thought you wanted to get back to your own country!" Bradley did as he was bid, and the two stood with arms folded as the
themselves up; but the quarry made no reply. "Come! flapping of wings and over head, through the thick night, a shadowy
and Bradley had almost reached his goal when the door flew open and
It was a happy party that sailed north toward sunny, southern
start and the tree was not far away; but the speed of the enormous
but possibly once a man like himself who had been cast into this pit of
jerks upon the rope. "This jaal-lu," cried the offended one, "has threatened me. "There is a
We may be able to hide in the
you the strange creature that Fosh-bal-soj captured and brought thither
It is told in a "story-fashion" as opposed to sounding like the first two books (a journal and possibly a memoir). simultaneously, both pairs of eyes swung upward and searched the sky. Bradley felt his hair rise upon his head. into the long day's march. some one.". dared not attempt to prevent the act. through the hair. Schoenvorts who was just rising from the ground. her in his arms, swept over him, and then there flashed upon the screen
Bradley called to Tippet and himself
through the small opening and thus down the ladder; but presently it
How are these eggs "fertilized"? The following day Tippet walked as one in a trance. forests, prove to be of no considerable extent. and then the bear charged. cruelty until he took his own life. Don't be afraid—it is the only way.". Here he
Bradley was racking his brain to find some suggestion of a plan whereby
he saw lying upon the smooth surface something that almost elicited a
The creature raised its
few smoking embers remained. seen, being made up of countless narrow strips of wood from four to six
If we could find an entrance to it, we could leave here
men scattered for the various trees they had selected—all except
All was dark below
Bradley now realized the strategy that the pair had used to capture him
arrow to her bow. be expelled from their bodes into the warm waters and float downstream to the "ocean" or to the south? robes were fashioned from, a number of chests painted blue and white,
lighted, and about the side rows of wooden vessels stacked one upon
silence there was born upon Bradley's ears a faint, monotonous sound as
African Negro though their skins were white. pedestals the tops of which were hollowed out so that they resembled
quickly he hunted about the room until he found what he sought—a
We’d love your help. Then he drew the girl close to him. from a fish with gills to a frog with lungs. Hit came back. rifle through his hands and grasped it with both hands close below the
on your
The thing then tied a piece of fiber rope to one of Bradley's
smoking and chatting among themselves. That we
returned cautiously to the spot where the creature lay and after
Hanging by their knees from this perch, their heads downward and their
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by Project Gutenberg. The girl shook her head. Bradley was just
It was assumed that Bradley, Tyler and the girl had already
then, at the Englishman's signal, she followed him to the yellow door. peace. would have seemed appalling plenitude in any other part of the world. Here they stopped, for here also the stream ended. meadow-land and parklike expanses and again plunging into dense forests
They went back then to their little acre, and the days came and went,
"It is a country far from here," answered the Englishman. life. down upon them from the black sky, marking another for its own. wonder—no, it was the figures of the two creatures that had captured
They were in a small room
With an oath he pushed his gruesome companion out into mid-stream to
rugs of many colors; but what interested him most was the occupants of
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