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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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They
were
sucked
into
the
Cone
like
chips
sucked
into
a
whirlpool,
and
Sarka
willed
a
last
command
as
they
entered:
"Quit
the
column
at
the
lip
of
the
crater,
and
muster
about
the
aircars!"
CHAPTER
XVIII
The
People
of
Radiance
The
exaltation
of
Sarka
knew
no
bounds,
and
looking
into
the
eyes
of
Jaska,
he
knew
she
felt
it,
too.
For
her
face
was
shining,
and
all
of
her,
the
wondrous
shining
brilliance
of
her,
was
bathed
in
the
white
radiance
that
mantled
Luar.
And
now,
since
Jaska
too
knew
that
radiance,
her
beauty
was
greater
even
than
that
of
Luar.
Sarka
thrilled
anew
at
the
glory
of
her.
But
even
as
he
stepped
into
the
base
of
the
Cone,
he
stepped
out
of
the
blue
column
at
the
lip
of
the
Moon-crater.
Swift
as
light,
and
swifter,
had
been
the
flight
upward
from
the
Cavern
of
the
Cone;
yet,
so
keen
were
his
perceptions,
he
knew
when
he
had
passed
through
the
chamber
of
the
bluish
glow,
into
which
he
and
Jaska
had
first
dropped
upon
arrival.
Now
they
were
on
the
lip
of
the
crater,
and
the
people
of
the
Gens
who
had
followed
him,
were
slipping
out
of
the
blue
column,
like
insects
out
of
a
flame,
and
converging
on
the
aircars
whose
tentacles
still
waved
as
they
had
when
Sarka
had
last
seen
them.
Sarka
looked
at
these
people
in
amazement.
To
him
there
was
a
divinity
now
about
their
nudeness
which
nudity
never
before
had
suggested
to
him.
For
the
people
shone,
and
there
was
something
glorious
in
those
divinely
white
bodies.
They
reminded
Sarka
of
his
people's
books
of
antiquity,
and
his
childhood's
pictures
of
angels....
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