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"Have you the Keth I mean that with which I sent Songar into the nothingness?" she asked swiftly. "See what she's driving at?" O'Keefe spoke to me, swiftly. "Well I do! But here's where the O'Keefe lands. "I said," he turned to her, "O voice of silver fire, that your spirit is high even as your beauty and searches out men's souls as does your loveliness their hearts.
Stay have you that little cone of the Keth with which you destroyed Songar?" She nodded, gazing at him, fascinated, fear and puzzlement contending. "Then use it." He took a vase of crystal from the table, placed it on the threshold that led into the garden. "Use it on this and I will show you." "I will use it upon one of the ladala " she began eagerly.
"After the oldster was adsprede" Olaf once more used that expressive Norwegian word for the dissolving of Songar "I knew that it was a time for cunning. I said to myself, 'If they think I have no ears to hear, they will speak; and it may be I will find a way to save my Helma and Dr. Goodwin's friends, too. Ja, and they did speak.
"Also that you have called out to the three Silent Ones. Is it true?" "Your spies have spoken and have you not already judged us?" The voice of the old dwarf was bitter. A flicker shot through the eyes of Yolara, again cold grey. The girl reached a trembling hand out to the hem of the priestess's veils. "Tell us why you did these things, Songar," she said.
They sit afar but surely they will hear you." The sweet voice was mocking. "As for these two, they shall pray to the Shining One for forgiveness and surely the Shining One will take them to its bosom! As for you you have lived long enough, Songar! Pray to the Silent Ones, Songar, and pass out into the nothingness you!"
The girl cast herself weeping at the feet of the priestess; the youth regarded her curiously. "You are Songar of the Lower Waters?" murmured Yolara almost caressingly. "And this is your daughter and her lover?" The gnome nodded, the flame in his eyes leaping higher. "It has come to me that you three have dared blaspheme the Shining One, its priestess, and its Voice," went on Yolara smoothly.
But I tell you that your measure of iniquity is full; the tale of your sin near ended! Yea the Silent Ones have been patient, but soon they will speak." He pointed at us. "A sign are they a warning harlot!" He spat the word. In Yolara's eyes, grown black, the devils leaped unrestrained. "Is it even so, Songar?" her voice caressed. "Now ask the Silent Ones to help you!
"As you will, Lugur," she said. And as, shaken to the core, we passed out into the garden into the full throbbing of the light, I wondered if all the tiny sparkling diamond points that shook about us had once been men like Songar of the Lower Waters and felt my very soul grow sick!
It was the girl who had been brought before Yolara when the gnome named Songar was driven into the nothingness! With all the quickness of light a spiral of the Shining One stretched out and encircled her. At its touch there was an infinitely dreadful shrinking and, it seemed, a simultaneous hurling of herself into its radiance.
And when Ailill was born he took a reed flute and first he played slumber on Cairill, and then he played old age so that Cairill grew white and withered; then Ailill played again and Cairill became a shadow then a shadow of a shadow then a breath; and the breath went out upon the wind!" He shivered. "Like the old gnome," he whispered, "that they called Songar of the Lower Waters!"
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