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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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CHAPTER
XV
The
Place
of
the
Blue
Light
So
the
Gnomes
were
Moon-people,
masters
of
the
Moon
cubes!
And
people
and
cubes
were
ruled
by
a
woman
who
resembled
a
woman
of
Earth!
The
Gnomes
took
them
back
the
way
they
had
come.
Where,
Sarka
wondered,
were
the
people
of
the
Gens
of
Dalis?
And
where
was
Dalis
himself!
Sarka
was
sure
that,
in
those
first
discords
which
had
come
out
of
the
crater,
he
had
heard
at
least
a
hint
of
the
laughter
of
Dalis.
And
this
woman
clothed
in
radiance--who
was
she?
And
what?
That
she
was
a
creature
of
the
Moon,
and
yet
resembled
in
all
ways
a
woman
of
Earth,
save
that
she
was
more
beautiful
than
any
woman
Sarka
had
ever
seen,
seemed
almost
impossible
to
believe.
Yet
he
had
seen
her.
So
had
Jaska,
and
as
Sarka
and
Jaska,
with
the
capering
Gnomes
still
about
them,
were
led
away
to
a
fate
at
which
they
could
only
guess,
Sarka
wondered
at
Jaska's
silence
and
at
the
strange
lack
of
expression
on
her
face.
He
pressed
her
hand,
but
somehow
she
failed
to
return
the
pressure,
mystifying
more
than
ever.
This
sudden
coldness
was
not
like
Jaska.
Back
they
went
through
the
vast
cavern
where
the
cone
of
the
bluish
column
still
moaned
and
murmured.
Sarka
moved
as
close
to
the
cone
as
the
Gnomes
would
permit,
and
peered
up
along
the
mighty
length
of
the
column.
At
its
tip
was
still
the
Earth,
like
a
star
viewed
from
the
bottom
of
a
deep
well.
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