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The Great Stone of Sardis

CHAPTER XXII
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"What we have here is enough for us, and if I were offered all the good that there is in this world, which money cannot buy, I would never go down into that cleft again.
There was one moment when I stood in that cave in which an awful terror shot into my soul which I shall never be able to forget.

In the light of my electric lamps, sent through a vast transparent mass, I could see nothing, but I could feel.

I put out my foot and I found it was upon a sloping surface.

In another instant I might have slid--where?
I cannot bear to think of it!" She threw her arms around him and held him tightly..


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