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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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Was
the
Gens
of
Dalis
being
burned
alive?
What
was
the
meaning
of
this?
For
a
moment,
filled
with
horror,
Sarka
looked
away
from
the
spectacle.
Off
to
his
right,
as
he
sat,
he
noted
that
the
flames,
which
here
seemed
lighter
than
they
had
in
high
levels,
were
converging
on
a
single
spot
toward
the
side
of
the
lake
of
white
flames--as
smoke
converges
on
the
base
of
a
chimney
leading
outward
to
the
air!
He
knew
as
he
stared
that
he
was
gazing
at
the
spot
where
the
bluish
column
of
the
cone
was
born!
Shaking
his
head,
he
turned
back
to
the
mighty
spectacle
of
this
horrible
thing
that
was
being
done
to
the
people
of
the
Gens
of
Dalis.
In
his
brain
there
suddenly
crashed
a
thought
whose
source
he
could
only
guess
at,
whose
meaning
mystified
him
more
than
anything
yet
experienced.
The
thought
might
have
emanated
from
Luar,
or
from
Dalis.
But
the
more
he
thought
of
the
matter,
the
more
he
thought
how
the
phrasing
of
the
thought
was
like
the
telepathy
of
Sarka
the
Second,
now
thousands
of
miles
away,
upon
the
Earth.
And
this
was
the
thought:
"If
they
fight
the
flames,
the
flames
will
destroy
them!
If
they
go
into
them
freely,
voluntarily,
they
will
be
rendered
immune
to
heat
and
to
cold,
to
life
and
to
death.
But
it
is
better
that
they
die,
for
Earth's
sake!"
What
did
it
mean?
Sarka
thought
of
the
radiant
white
light
which
perpetually
bathed
the
person
of
Luar,
and
thought
that
he
had
somehow
been
given
a
hint
of
its
source.
If
the
Gens
of
Dalis
were
voluntarily
bathed
in
the
lake
of
white
flames,
would
they
become
as
Luar?
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