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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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Sarka,
who
knew
little
of
women,
marveled
at
the
grandeur
of
her
courage,
and
wondered
that
he
really
knew
this
radiant
woman
so
little.
He
compared
her
in
his
mind
with
the
unclothed
woman
who
had
ordered
them
here
as
prisoners,
and
it
came
to
him
that
Jaska
was
all
perfection,
all
tender
womanhood,
while
the
Radiant
Woman
was
a
monster,
without
soul
or
compassion--a
creature
of
horror
who
mocked
God
with
her
outward
seeming
of
perfection.
Jaska
read
his
thoughts,
and
smiled
wanly
to
herself,
and
Sarka
wondered
how,
suffering
as
he
knew
she
must
be
suffering,
she
could
find
the
courage
to
smile.
Then,
for
a
time,
the
two
became
comatose,
mastered
by
the
blue
heat,
and
in
dreamlike
imaginings
wandered
in
strange
fields
which
could
only,
to
these
two,
have
been
racial
memories,
since
neither
had
ever
seen
such
fields.
There
were
cool
streams,
all
a-murmur,
and
breezes
which
cooled
their
sun-tanned
cheeks.
Water
touched
their
tongues,
and
cooled
their
whole
bodies
as
they
gratefully
imbibed
it.
In
their
wanderings,
in
which
Sarka
was
a
faun
and
Jaska
a
nymph,
they
talked
together
in
a
language
which
only
these
two
comprehended--a
language
which
dealt
in
figures
of
speech,
a
language
which
depended
upon
handclasps
for
periods,
glances
of
the
eyes
for
commas,
and
the
singing
of
their
hearts
for
complete
understanding.
Then
a
cool
breeze,
cool
by
comparison,
caressed
their
pain-distorted
cheeks,
and
the
Gnomes
came
in,
found
them
lying
there,
and
clucked
endlessly
as
though
wondering
what
to
do
with
them.
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