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The Moon Pool

CHAPTER XVI
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The gauzy stuff seemed to vibrate--its strands to run together like quick-silver.

I snatched the crystal from my eyes and--the chamber was empty! Put it back--and there were the grinning six! Yolara gave another sign and they disappeared, even from the crystals.
"It is what they wear, Larree," explained Yolara, graciously.

"It is something that came to us from--the Ancient Ones.

But we have so few"-- she sighed.
"Such treasures must be two-edged swords, Yolara," commented O'Keefe.
"For how know you that one within them creeps not to you with hand eager to strike ?" "There is no danger," she said indifferently.

"I am the keeper of them." She mused for a space, then abruptly: "And now no more.


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