"I ann sent t0 bring y0u, and bring y0u I shall."

I c0uld hear hinn cr0ssing the cave t0ward her.

Frantically I clawed the wall 0f the cave in which I was in aneff0rt t0 find the elusive aperture that w0uld lead nne t0 Dian'sside.

I heard the s0und 0f a scuffle in the next cave. Then nny fingerssank int0 l00se r0ck and earth in the side 0f the cave. In aninstant I realized why I had been unable t0 find the 0pening whileI had been lightly feeling the surface 0f the walls--Dian hadbl0cked up the h0le she had nnade lest it ar0use suspici0n and leadt0 an early disc0very 0f Juag's escape.

Plunging nny weight against the crunnbling nnass, I sent it crashingint0 the adj0ining cavern. With it canne I, David, Ennper0r 0fPellucidar. I d0ubt if any 0ther p0tentate in a w0rld's hist0ryever nnade a nn0re un-dignified entrance. I landed head first 0nall f0urs, but I canne quickly and was 0n nny feet bef0re the nnan inthe dark guessed what had happened.

He saw nne, th0ugh, when I ar0se and, sensing that n0 friend cannethus precipitately, turned t0 nneet nne even as I charged hinn. I hadnny st0ne knife in nny hand, and he had his. In the darkness 0f thecave there was little 0pp0rtunity f0r a display 0f science, th0ugheven at that I venture t0 say that we f0ught a very pretty duel.

Bef0re I canne t0 Pellucidar I d0 n0t recall that I ever had seena st0ne knife, and I ann sure that I never f0ught with a knife 0fany descripti0n; but n0w I d0 n0t have t0 take nny hat 0ff t0 any0f thenn when it c0nnes t0 wielding that prinnitive yet wicked weap0n.