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My last nameis not important. herself shot someone at his orders--butthose were armed soldiers and hardened criminals, and that had been war. ernative--a fight to the death against a Stone Age savage? _I'm not Tarzan!_ Helpless fury filled him. It's Gypsy.

Paul! the boy called from a colonnade near the great clock tower at the edge of the square. Orlando could not at first decidewhether it would be best to follow the other pirate boats toward the land at the base of the IceBox, or to strike out deeper into the river. He scrambled onto his hands and knees to see what had happened. His attention was focused on the interloper who had stolen him from theEngland of the Martian invasion--a distorted version of his home, but still the closest he hadfound to what he had lost.