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Updated: May 1, 2025
"Kiss the bride, Doc!" cried the O'Keefe. And for the third and, soul's sorrow! the last time, Lakla dimpling and blushing, I thrilled to the touch of her soft, sweet lips. Quickly were our preparations for departure made. Rador, conscious, his immense vitality conquering fast his wounds, was to be borne ahead of us.
But this remember Rador is more friend to you than you yet can know. And now let us go!" he ended abruptly. He led us, not through the entrance, but into a sloping passage ending in a blind wall; touched a symbol graven there, and it opened, precisely as had the rosy barrier of the Moon Pool Chamber.
O'Keefe's pistol hand dropped. "You're a good sport, Rador, and far be it from me to get you in bad," he said. "Take us to the temple when we get there well, your responsibility ends, doesn't it?" The green dwarf nodded; on his face a curious expression was it relief? Or was it emotion higher than this? He turned curtly. "Follow," he said.
I was wondering how I could with comparative safety study the fungus when Rador stopped; in front of us was again the road ribbon. "Now is all danger passed," he said. "The way lies open and Lugur has fled " There was a flash from the road. It passed me like a little lariat of light. It struck Larry squarely between the eyes, spread over his face and drew itself within!
There was a hissing; the crown of horns fell, whipped and writhed like the tentacles of an octopus; the towering length dropped back. "Quick!" gasped Rador and through the fern moss, along the path and down the other side of the steep we raced. Behind us for an instant there was a rushing as of a torrent; a far-away, faint, agonized screaming silence!
Well content!" He gripped our hands again. "We will fight!" he muttered. "Ja! And I will have vengeance!" The sternness returned; and with a salute Rador and he were gone. Two great tears rolled from the golden eyes of Lakla. "Not even the Silent Ones can heal those the Shining One has taken," she said. "He asked me and it was better that I tell him.
Rador leaped to the head of the little path, sword in hand; Olaf, shouting and whirling his mace, followed. I strove to get my own gun quickly. For up that path were running twoscore of Lugur's men, while from below Lugur's own voice roared. "Quick! Slay not the handmaiden or her lover! Carry them down. Quick! But slay the others!"
"Nay, Yolara, nay; you shall be accompanied," said Lakla; "and by those who will guard and watch you well. They are here even now." The hangings parted, and into the chamber came Olaf and Rador. The priestess met the fierce hatred and contempt in the eyes of the Norseman and for the first time lost her bravado. "Let not him go with me," she gasped her eyes searched the floor frantically.
But clearly Lugur had kept his information even from Yolara; and as clearly she had spoken to none of that episode when O'Keefe's automatic had shattered the Keth-smitten vase. Again I felt that sense of deep bewilderment of helpless search for clue to all the tangle. For two hours we were questioned and then the priestess called Rador and let us go. Larry was sombre as we returned.
Larry became immediately his old gay self. The green dwarf regarded us whimsically, sipping from his great flagon of rock crystal. "Much do I desire to know of that world you came from," he said at last "through the rocks," he added, slyly. "And much do we desire to know of this world of yours, O Rador," I answered. Should I ask him of the Dweller; seek from him a clue to Throckmartin?
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