[Caves of Terror by Talbot Mundy]@TWC D-Link bookCaves of Terror CHAPTER XII 19/35
They crumbled as his foot struck them, and turned to dust as he trod on them--all except the teeth.
As he kicked the skull across the floor the teeth scattered, but King and I picked up a few of them, and I have mine yet--two molars and two incisors belonging to a man, who to my mind was as much an honest martyr as any in Fox's book. "Well, Mr.King," asked one of the committee in his choicest note of sarcasm, "have you any more marvels to exhibit, or shall we adjourn ?" "Adjourn by all means," King advised him. "We know it all, eh ?" "Truly, you know it all," King answered without a smile. Then speaking sidewise in an undertone to me: "And you and I know nothing.
That's a better place to start from, Ramsden.
I don't know how you feel, but I'm going to track their science down until I'm dead or master of it.
The very highest knowledge we've attained is ignorance compared to what these fellows showed us.
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