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Caves of Terror

CHAPTER III
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But there is yet much else to do, and the eyes of those who have lived so long in darkness are but blinded for the present by the light, so that guides are needed, who can see.

You two shall see--a little!" It was becoming intolerably hot in the room with the curtains drawn and all those lights burning, but I seemed to be the only one who minded it.
The candles in the chandelier were kept from collapsing by metal sheaths, but the very flames seemed to feel the heat and to flicker like living things that wilted.
"Corn is corn and grass is grass," said the Mahatma, "and neither one can change the other.

Yet the seed of grass that is selected can improve all grass, as they understand who strive with problems of the field.
Therefore ye two, who have been chosen, shall be sent as the seeds of grass to the United States to carry on the work that no Indian can properly accomplish.

Corn to corn, grass to grass.

That is your destiny." He paused, as if waiting for the sand to run out of an hour-glass.


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