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But now that you may be strong for what is before us, you must sleep again." Olaf Huldricksson looked upon me and in his eyes was that something which souls must see in the eyes of Him the old Egyptians called the Searcher of Hearts in the Judgment Hall of Osiris. "You speak truth!" he said at last slowly. "I will do what you say!" He stretched out an arm at my bidding.
They dropped a boat and left me. I steered straight on the path. I lashed my hands to the wheel that sleep might not loose them. I steered on and on and on "Where was the God I prayed when my wife and child were taken?" cried Olaf Huldricksson and it was as though I heard Throckmartin asking that same bitter question. "I have left Him as He left me, ja!
And that she djaevelsk of beauty what is she but harlot of that shining devil they worship. I, Olaf Huldricksson, know what she meant when she held out to you power over all the world, Ja! as if the world had not devils enough in it now!" "What?" The cry came from both O'Keefe and myself at once. Olaf made a gesture of caution, relapsed into sullen silence.
"I saw a white fire spring over the rail," whispered Olaf Huldricksson. "It whirled round and round, and it shone like like stars in a whirlwind mist. There was a noise in my ears. It sounded like bells little bells, ja! Like the music you make when you run your finger round goblets. It made me sick and dizzy the hell noise. "My Helma was indeholde what you say in the middle of the white fire.
Opposite us sat the Russian, clothed as we were, leaning forward, his eyes eager behind his glasses; but if he saw us he gave no sign. "And there's Olaf!" said O'Keefe. Beneath the carved stall in which sat the Russian was an aperture and within it was Huldricksson.
Da Costa's head appeared at the top of the companion steps. "There is nobody, nobody," he paused then "nobody nowhere!" His hands flew out in a gesture of hopeless incomprehension. "I do not understan'." Then Olaf Huldricksson opened his dry lips and as he spoke a chill ran through me, checking my heart. "The sparkling devil took them!" croaked Olaf Huldricksson, "the sparkling devil took them!
A restraint fell upon us; the embarrassment all men experience when they feel a great sympathy and a great pity, to neither of which they quite know how to give expression. By silent consent we discussed at breakfast only the most casual topics. When the meal was over Huldricksson expressed a desire to go aboard the Brunhilda. The Suwarna hove to and Da Costa and he dropped into the small boat.
But after I had finished he cross-examined me rather minutely upon my recollections of the radiant phases upon each appearance, checking these with Throckmartin's observations of the same phenomena in the Chamber of the Moon Pool. "And now what do you think of it all?" I asked. He sat silent for a while, looking at Huldricksson. "Not what you seem to think, Dr.
The shadow of mystery had retreated far over the rim of this wide awake and beautiful world and if, subconsciously, I knew that somewhere it was brooding and waiting, for a little while at least I was consciously free of its oppression. "How's the patient?" asked O'Keefe. He was answered by Huldricksson himself, who must have risen just as I left the cabin.
Then with Huldricksson manipulating our small sail, and Larry at the rudder, we rounded the titanic wall that swept down into the depths, and turned at last into the canal that Throckmartin, on his map, had marked as that which, running between frowning Nan-Tauach and its satellite islet, Tau, led straight to the gate of the place of ancient mysteries.
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