...Behind the wheel of the weatherbeaten, sunburned car, Dean Rawson squintedhis eyes against the glare...
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...ive hours of driving, and Rawson walked into the office of Erickson,Incorporated, with a steady step...
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..."Even that does not damn the scheme; but, Rawson, there's only one factorwe gamble on...
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...Before Rawson could get his own lanky six feet of wiry length from thecar, the man had struggled to his feet...
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...Dean Rawson turned and looked withfair appraisal at the man he had saved...
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...Dean Rawson, with Smithyclose at hand, pushed through the crowd...
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..."Right," said Rawson tersely...
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..."That's fine," Rawson interrupted with heavy sarcasm...
Charles Willard Diffin 「Two Thousand Miles Below」
...ean Rawson had crossedthe room while the man was still speaking...
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...But Rawson postponed their going...
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..."Are you telling me?" Rawson asked grimly...
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...But Rawson was staring at thesmooth lava block that was in his hand...
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..."Quiet!" ordered Rawson sharply...
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...ut the casting!" Smithy protested when he and Rawson were alone...
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...And he, Rawson, had been so sure he would find traceshere that would allow him to give that opposing force a name...
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...In the mind of Dean Rawson was but onethought: the sights—and a something blurred beyond—a triggerto be pressed...
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..."Fine dust!" Rawson interrupted in the same whisper...
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...Before Rawson could raise his own weapon the blast had tornthe rock from beneath his feet...
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...But to Rawson it meant the fruit of years of effort, the goal of hisdreams brought almost within his reach...
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...To Rawson it was only a confused medley of conflicting sounds inwhich no one voice was clear...
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...Then one ofthem pointed above toward the open shaft that Rawson had drilled, theshaft up which the bailer had gone...
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