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They may come out."
We must find the sphere!"
Yes," I said; "but how?"
Crawl till we come to it."
But if we don't?"
Keep hidden. See what they are like."
We will keep together," said I.
He thought. "Which way shall we go?"
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We must take our chance."
We peered this way and that. Then very circumspectly, we began to crawl
through the lower jungle, making, so far as we could judge, a circuit,
halting now at every waving fungus, at every sound, intent only on the
sphere from which we had so foolishly emerged. Ever and again from out of
the earth beneath us came concussions, beatings, strange, inexplicable,
mechanical sounds; and once, and then again, we thought we heard
something, a faint rattle and tumult, borne to us through the air. But
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