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Updated: June 11, 2025
But if the frog-woman regarded us all, not so did the maiden of the rosy wall. Her eyes were fastened upon Larry, drinking him in with extraordinary intentness. She was tall, far over the average of women, almost as tall, indeed, as O'Keefe himself; not more than twenty years old, if that, I thought.
The gigantic eyes of the frog-woman took us all in unwinkingly. Little glints of phosphorescence shone out within the metallic green of the outer iris ring.
Abruptly she leaned forward, the golden eyes softened and grew tender; the red lips moved as though she were speaking. Larry took a quick step, and his face was that of one who after countless births comes at last upon the twin soul lost to him for ages. The frog-woman turned her eyes upon the girl; her huge lips moved, and I knew that she was talking!
The frog-woman crept to her side; gazed down upon Larry; spoke spoke to the Golden Girl in a swift stream of the sonorous, reverberant monosyllables; and Lakla answered her in kind. The webbed digits swept over O'Keefe's face, felt at his heart; she shook her head and moved ahead of us up the passage.
They were there before us golden-eyed girl and grotesque frog-woman complete in every line and curve; and still it was as though their bodies passed back through distances; as though, to try to express the wellnigh inexpressible, the two shapes we were looking upon were the end of an infinite number stretching in fine linked chain far away, of which the eyes saw only the nearest, while in the brain some faculty higher than sight recognized and registered the unseen others.
Remembering how the frog-woman had stuck in Larry's mind from the outset, I wondered whether all this was not more to convince himself than Olaf. "Why, I remember a nice girl in Paris who had four pet pythons " he went on. But I listened no more, for now I was sure of my surmise.
Lakla shivered; gave a command. The frog-men moved about; peering here and there; lifting unseen folds revealing in stark rigidity torn form after form of the priestess's men. Lakla had been right her Akka were thorough fighters! She called, and to her came the frog-woman who was her attendant.
He uttered some holy names, and made the sign of the cross; and when the form remained motionless at his side, he said, "Who art thou? Whence this animal shape that thou bearest, while yet thou art full of gentle mercy?" The frog-woman beckoned him to follow, and led him through corridors shrouded with curtains, into the stables, and there pointed to a horse.
"Ranadae, yes," I answered. "But from the Stegocephalia; of the order Ecaudata " Never such a complete indignation as was in O'Keefe's voice as he interrupted. "What do you mean fossils and Stego whatever it is?" he asked. "She was a girl, a wonder girl a real girl, and Irish, or I'm not an O'Keefe!" "We were talking about the frog-woman, Larry," I said, conciliatingly.
There's another thing" he hesitated, nervously "there's another thing that may startle you a bit when we meet up with Lakla her er frogs!" "Like the frog-woman we saw on the wall?" asked Olaf. "Yes," went on Larry, rapidly. "It's this way I figure that the frogs grow rather large where she lives, and they're a bit different too. Well, Lakla's got a lot of 'em trained.
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