Excerpts from the Book 'Through The Dragon Glass':
... and look at it! Wonderful? It is more than wonderful, the Dragon Glass! Whoever made it lived when the gods walked about the earth creating something ...
... man worth ten millions can't step out into thin air and vanish without leaving behind him the probability of some commotion, naturally. The newspapers ...
... shot up dusky little vaporous yellow flames. Afterward you were aware that the green translucence was an oval slice of polished stone. The flashes and ...
... too-and every other time you looked at it. Where did you get it? I asked, a little shakily. Herndon said evenly: It was in a small hidden crypt ...
... moving across the breast of the peak there is a third that swims into the flame at the farthest edge- The seven moons of Rak, whispered Herndon, ...
... fussing around close to man when Rak was born. The story of his parentage is somewhat scandalous. When he grew older Rak wasn't satisfied with just seeing ...
... so that he might build up a people-and over his people Rak was given the high, the low, and the middle justice. And outside the world Rak went. He ...
... We were Goths sacking imperial Rome. Alexander's hosts pillaging that ancient gemmed courtezan of cities, royal Tyre! Thieves in the great ancient ...
... of the Feathered Serpent they worship down in the Hidden Temple of Tuloon. And they were as wise as Fate. 'There's something else here, sir,' said Martin-you ...
... English. And then Wu-Sing straightened. For a moment his eyes looked into mine. They were as yellow as buttercups, Ward, and wise, wise! My mind rushed ...
... thrust his head into his hands, and rocked to and fro. How long, how long, he moaned, how long, Santhu? Jim! I cried. Jim! What's the matter ...
... the glass? I cried. Through it, he said, and then-I felt another little hand touch my face. I saw Santhu! Her eyes were as blue as the corn ...
... and their hearts glowed like the glow-worms that are fastened to the rainbow bridge to Asgard. A wind sighed through the plumed trees, and luminous ...
... glowed as though they were full light. The girl touched the wall, and a panel slid away. We entered, and the panel closed after us. The room was ...
... swift and compelling. She arose-I took her in my arms- Many times the moons circled the mountains, and the mist held the little, tangled stars passing ...
... world through many gateways. Santhu sang-and I knew that the marching stars in the mist were the souls of the people of Rak which sought rebirth. She ...
... eyes-and he was playing me-playing me as a child plays with a cat when he tempts it with a piece of meat and snatches the meat away again and again ...
... eyes, Jim, I whispered-who is he? He, said Herndon-why, he's the WonderWorker himself! You don't believe such a story as that! I cried. Why, it's-it's ...
... why I found the little passage that led from the throne-room. And he knows it, too. That's why he had to turn his beast on me. And I'll go through ...
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