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A VOICE IN THE DARKNESS
But through the night, through the high stars, a strange, distant voice was calling him:
"Siddereticus! Siddereticus!"
Half awake, he stumbled to his feet, crying:
"Fen!" and then, "What has happened?"
For a launch rose and fell on the glittering water beside the yawl, and in it stood a woman, her auburn hair gleaming in then moonlight.
He was at the gunwale instantly, wide awake.
"What is it? What has happened?" he said.
"Can you come?" she asked, her voice trembling with urgency. "He is very badly hurt. He is asking for you ceaselessly."
Siddereticus had disappeared before she had finished speaking, and in a few min-
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