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The Metal Monster

CHAPTER XXIII
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It will not bring her back if we kill him through whom she was taken.

We would punish him--yes, but slay him we cannot.

And we would be after the maid and her brother quickly." A moment she looked at us, perplexity shading the high and steady anger.
"As you will," she said at last; then added, half sarcastically, "Perhaps it is because I who am now awake have slept so long that I cannot understand you.

But Yuruk has disobeyed ME.

That of MINE which I committed to his care he has given to the enemies of me and those who were mine.


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