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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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The
Gnome
who
had
first
leaped
upon
Jaska
advanced
to
the
wall,
paused
with
his
face
almost
against
the
lower
line
of
the
triangle,
and
remained
there,
intently
staring,
while
the
other
Gnomes
remained
mute
and
unmoving.
Stronger
and
stronger
appeared
the
blinding
light.
Slowly
the
inner
portion
of
the
triangle
began
to
give
inward,
like
a
door.
And
out
of
the
opening
came
that
blinding
radiance.
As
the
triangular
door
stood
entirely
open,
Sarka
and
Jaska
stood
in
thunderstruck
silence,
staring
like
people
bereft
of
their
senses.
For
there,
standing
in
the
opening,
the
now
white
radiance
itself
a
mantle
to
cover
her,
was
a
woman,
unclothed
save
for
the
radiance,
who
might
have
been
of
the
Earth,
save
that
she
was
more
beautiful
than
any
woman
of
Earth.
Beside
her
the
radiant
beauty
of
Jaska
paled,
became
wan
and
sickly.
But
Sarka
noted
immediately
her
eyes,
whose
depths
bewildered,
amazed
him.
For
in
them
he
could
see
no
expression,
no
feeling,
but
only
abysmal
cruelty.
That
she
was
Sarka's
master,
and
Jaska's
master,
and
master
of
all
these
Gnomes,
became
instantly
apparent
for
telepathically
she
addressed
Sarka.
"I
am
busy
now.
The
Moon-people
will
hold
you
prisoners
in
the
Place
of
the
Blue
light,
until
I
am
ready
to
give
you
to
the
Cone!"
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