CHAPTER XIIII got along through the doorway fine as silk and found myself safe out in the dark, with the night wind cooling off my face and the stars shining over me.
“I’m all right!” says I to myself. “All I got to do is to take a couple of deep breaths. Then my head will clear and I can figure out what I’ll do if big Rusty decides to call my bluff. I can relax!”
Well, that was what I done. I relaxed. I loosened up my jaw muscles and I let go of myself all over. But when I say that I let myself go, I want you to know that it was exactly as though I was falling a whole block. A wave of darkness started up at me from the ground. The stars, they begun to spin around and turn into red globes, and the red globes exploded like shells, and each turned into a million rockets shooting across the
