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Updated: June 1, 2025
"But this is a rotten town for candy canes they only had little ones." And they all laughed. "I have a present for you, Lylda," the Chemist said after a moment. "Oh, but you must not give it until to-morrow; you yourself have told me that." The Chemist rose. "I want to give it now," he said, and left the room.
And I shall get big. Oh, not so very big, but big enough to be the height of a man it may be ten times. Then shall I talk to the people I, Lylda woman of the Master, and then shall I tell them that this power, this magic, is for good, not for evil, if only they will give up Targo and all who are with him." "I will take it with you," said the Chemist. "Together we " "No, no, my husband.
When I looked up after a moment, I found the landscape dwindling to tiny proportions in quite as astonishing a way as it had grown before. The king and Lylda stood now hardly above my ankle. "A great cry arose from the people a cry wherein horror, fear, and applause seemed equally mixed. I looked down and saw thousands of them running away in terror.
"A plan I have made," said Lylda. She sat forward tensely in her chair, brushing her hair back from her face with a swift gesture. "A plan I have made. It is the only way I now think that may be there comes no harm to our people. It is that we want to do, if we can." She spoke eagerly, and without waiting for them to answer, went swiftly on. "This drug that you have brought, I shall take it.
"At the city of Arite, where Lylda first took me, and where I had my first view of the inner surface, the curvature is slightly greater than that of our own earth, although, as I have said, in the opposite direction." "And the space within this curvature the heavens you have mentioned how great do you estimate it to be?" asked the Doctor.
Her breath came fast; she put a hand to her mouth and stifled the cry that rose to her lips. "They will not hurt him, Lylda; that I know. And soon we will have him back." For a moment more her searching eyes stared steadily into his. He heard the whispered words, "My little son with Targo," come slowly from her lips; then with a low, sobbing cry she dropped senseless into his arms.
They had just decided to send Oteo to see what had become of him and to bring down Reoh and his daughter, when Lylda unexpectedly returned. It was Eena, standing at one of the side windows, who first saw her mistress. A cry from the girl brought them all to the window. Far away beyond the city they could see the gigantic figure of Lylda, towering several hundred feet in the air.
"The food was not greatly different from our own, although I found not a single article I could identify. It consisted principally of vegetables and fruits, the latter of an apparently inexhaustible variety. "Lylda visited me at intervals, and I learned I was awaiting an audience with the king.
You must understand, though, that these other worlds are infinitely tiny compared to the Oroids, and, if inhabited, support beings nearly as much smaller than the Oroids, as they are smaller than you." "Great Caesar!" ejaculated the Banker. "Don't let's go into that any deeper!" "Tell us more about Lylda," prompted the Very Young Man. "You are insatiable on that point," laughed the Chemist.
When the people had quieted a little Lylda raised her arms in greeting and spoke, softly, yet with a voice that carried far away over the field. As she talked the people seemed to recover their composure rapidly. Her tremendous size no longer seemed to horrify them.
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