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THE ENSORCELLED CHAMBER.
"Goodwin!" Drake broke the silence; desperately he was striving to keep his fear out of his voice.

"Goodwin--this isn't the way to get out.
We're going up--farther away all the time from the--the gates!" "What can we do ?" My anxiety was no less than his, but my realization of our helplessness was complete.
"If we only knew how to talk to these Things," he said.

"If we could only have let the Disk know we wanted to get out--damn it, Goodwin, it would have helped us." Grotesque as the idea sounded, I felt that he spoke the truth.

The Emperor meant no harm to us; in fact in speeding us away I was not at all sure that he had not deliberately wished us well--there was that about the Keeper-- Still up we sped along the shaft.