Latest / The H. G. Wells Library / The Dream Part I How Harry Mortimer Smith was made Chapter the First The Excursion

Transcript

The Dream Part I How Harry Mortimer Smith was made Chapter the First The Excursion · The H. G. Wells Library

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Section one of The Dream, a Novel. This is a
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: The Dream, a Novel by H. G. Wells. Section one,
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: Part one, How Harry Mortimer Smith was made The Dream.
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Chapter the first the Excursion, Part one. Sarnak had worked
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: almost continuously for the better part of a year upon
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: some very subtle chemical reactions of the nervous cells of
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: the sympathetic system. His first inquiries had led to the
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: opening out of fresh and surprising possibilities, and these again
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: had lured him on to still broader and more fascinating prospects.
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: He worked perhaps too closely. He found his hope and
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: curiosity unimpaired, but there was less delicacy of touch in
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: his manipulation, and he was thinking less quickly and accurately.
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: He needed a holiday. He had come to the end
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: of a chapter in his work and wished to brace
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: himself for a new beginning. Sunray had long hoped to
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: be away with him. She too was at a phase
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: in her work when interruption was possible, and so the
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: two went off together to wander among the lakes and mountains.
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: Their companionship was at a very delightful stage. Their close
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: relationship and their friendship was of old standing, so that
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: they were quite at their ease with one another. Yet
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: they were not too familiar to have lost the keen
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: edge of their interest in each other's proceedings. Sunray was
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: very much in love with Sarnac and glad and Sarnac
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: was always happy and pleasantly exalted when Sunray was near him.
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: Sunray the richer hearted and cleverer lover. They talked of
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: everything in the world, but Sarnac's work, because that had
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: to rest and grow fresh again. Of her own work,
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: Sunray talked abundantly. She had been making stories and pictures
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: of happiness and sorrow in the past ages of the world,
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: and she was full of curious speculations about the ways
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: in which the ancestral mind has thought and felt. They
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: played with boats upon the great lake for some days.
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: They sailed and paddled and drew up their canoe among
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: the sweet scented rushes of the islands, and bathed and swam.
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: They went from one guest house to another upon the water,
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: and met many interesting and refreshing people. In one house,
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: an old man of ninety eight was staying. He was
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: amusing his declining years by making statuettes of the greatest
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: beauty and humor. It was wonderful to see the clay
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: take shape in his hands. Moreover, he had a method
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: of cooking the lake fish that was very appetizing, and
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: he made a great dish of them, so that everyone
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: who was dining in the place could have some. And
• 3:11
  Speaker 1: there was a musician who made Sunray talk about the
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: days gone by, and afterwards he played music with his
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: own hands on a clavier to express the ancient feelings
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: of men. He played one piece that was, he explained,
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: two thousand years old. It was by a man named Chopin,
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: and it was called the Revolutionary Etude. Sunray could not
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: have believed a piano capable of such passionate resentment. After that,
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: he played grotesque and angry battle music and crude marching
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: tunes from those half forgotten times. And then he invented
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: wrathful and passionate music of his own. Sunray sat under
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: a golden lantern and listened to the musician and wanted
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: his nimble hands. But Sarnac was more deeply moved. He
• 4:05
  Speaker 1: had not heard very much music in his life, and
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: this player seemed to open shutters upon deep and dark
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: and violent things that had long been closed to mankind.
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: Sarnac sat cheek on hand, his elbow on the parapet
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: of the garden wall, looking across the steely blue of
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: the lake at the darkling night sky. At the lower end,
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: the sky had been starry, but a monstrous crescent of clouds,
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: like a hand that closes, was now gathering all the
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: stars into its fist of darkness. Perhaps there would be
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: rain tomorrow. The lanterns hung still, except that ever and
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: again a little shiver of the air set them swaying.
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: Now and then a great white moth would come fluttering
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: out of the night and beat about among the lanterns
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: for a time and pass away. Presently it would return again,
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: or another moth like it would come. Sometimes there would
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: be three or four of these transitory phantoms. They seemed
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: to be the only insects abroad that night. A faint
• 5:11
  Speaker 1: ripple below drew his attention to the light of a boat,
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: a round yellow light like a glowing orange, which came
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: gliding close up to the terrace wall, out of the
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: blue of the night. There was the sound of a
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: paddle being shipped and a diminishing drip of water, But
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: the people in the boat sat still and listened until
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: the musician had done altogether. Then they came up the
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: steps to the terrace and asked the master of the
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: guest house for rooms for the night. They had dined
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: at a place farther up the lake. Four people came
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: by this boat. Two were brother and sister, dark handsome
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: people of southern origin, and the others were fair women,
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: one blue eyed and one with hazel eyes, who were
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: very clearly much attached to the brother and sister. They
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: came and talked about the music, and then of a
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: climbing expedition they had promised themselves in the great mountains
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: above the lakes. The brother and sister were named Radiant
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: and Starlight, and their work in life, they explained, was
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: to educate animals. It was a business for which they
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: had an almost instinctive skill. The two fair girls, Willow
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: and Firefly, were electricians. During the last few days, Sunray
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: had been looking ever and again at the glittering snow
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: fields and desiring them. There was always a magic call
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: for her in snowy mountains. She joined very eagerly in
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: the mountain talk, and it was presently suggested that she
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: and Sarnac should accompany these new acquaintances up to the
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: peaks they had in mind. But before they went on
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: to the mountains, she and Sarnac wanted to visit some
• 6:55
  Speaker 1: ancient remains that had recently been excavated in a valley
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: that came down to the lake from the east. The
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: four newcomers were interested in what she told them about
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: these ruins, and altered their own plans to go with
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: her and Sarnak to see them. Then afterwards all six
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: would go into the mountains. Part two. These ruins were
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: rather more than two thousand years old. There were the
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: remains of a small old town, a railway station of
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: some importance, and a railway tunnel which came right through
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: the mountains. The tunnel had collapsed, but the excavators had
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: worked along it and found several wrecked trains in it,
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: which had evidently been packed with soldiers and refugees. The
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: remains of these people, much disturbed by rats and other vermin,
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: lay about in the trains and upon the railway tracks.
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: The tunnel had apparently been blocked by explosives, and these
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: trainloads of people entombed. Afterwards, the town itself and all
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: its inhabitants had been destroyed by poison gas. But what
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: sort of poison gas it was, the investigators had still
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: to decide. It had had an unusual pickling effect, so
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: that many of the bodies were not so much skeletons
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: as mummies, and there were books, papers, pop yamichet objects
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: or the like in a fair state of preservation. In
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: many of the houses. Even cheap cotton goods were preserved,
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: though they had lost all their color. For some time
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: after the great catastrophe, this part of the world must
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: have remained practically uninhabited. A landslide had presently blocked the
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: lower valley and banked back the valley waters so as
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: to submerge the town and cover it with a fine
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: silt and seal up the tunnel very completely. Now the
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: barrier had been cut through and the valley drained again,
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: and all these evidences of one of the characteristic disasters
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: of the last war period in das Man's history had
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: been brought back to the light once more. The six
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: holidaymakers found the visit to this place a very vivid experience,
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: almost too vivid for their contentment. On Sarnak's tired mind,
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: it made a particularly deep impression. The material collected from
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: the town had been arranged in a long museum gallery
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: of steel and glass. There were many almost complete bodies.
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: One invalid old woman embombed by the gas had been
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: replaced in the bed from which the waters had floated her,
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: and there was a shriveled little baby put back again
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: in its cradle. The sheets and quilts were bleached and browned,
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: but it was quite easy to see what they had
• 9:46
  Speaker 1: once been like. The people had been taken by surprise,
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: it seemed. While the midday meal was in preparation, the
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: tables must have been set in many of the houses,
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: And now, after a score of centuries, beneath mud and
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: weeds and fishes, the antiquaries had disinterred and reassembled these
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: old machine made cloths and plaited implements upon the tables.
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: There were great stores of such pitiful, discolored litter from
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: the vanished life of the past. The holiday makers did
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: not go far into the tunnel. The suggestion of things
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: there were too horrible for their mood, and Sarnak stumbled
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: over a rail and cut his hand upon the jagged
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: edge of a broken railway carriage window. The wound pained
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: him later and did not heal so quickly as it
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: should have done. It was as if some poison had
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: got into it. It kept him awake in the night
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: for the rest of the day. The talk was all
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: of the terrible days of the last wars in the world,
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: and the dreadfulness of life in that age. It seemed
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: to Firefly and Starlight that existence must have been almost unendurable,
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: a tissue of hate, terror, want, and discomfort from the
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: cradle to the grave. But Radiant argued that people then
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: were perhaps no less happy and no happier than himself,
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: that for everyone in every age, there was a normal state,
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: and that any exaltation of hope or sensation above that
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: was happiness, and any depression below it misery. It did
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: not matter where the normal came, they went to great
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: intensities in both directions. He said, there was more darkness
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: in their lives and more pain, but not more unhappiness.
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: Sunray was inclined to agree with him, but Willow objected
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: to radiant psychology. She said that there could be permanently
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: depressed states, in an unhealthy body, or in a life
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: lived under restraint. There could be generally miserable creatures, just
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: as there could be generally happy creatures. Of course, interjected Sarnak,
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: given us standard outside themselves. But why did they make
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: such wars, cried Firefly. Why did they do such horrible
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: things to one another? There were people like ourselves, no better,
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: said Radiant, and no worse, so far as their natural
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: quality went. It is not a hundred generations ago. Their
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: skulls were as big and well shaped. Those poor creatures
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: in the tunnel, said Sarnac, Those poor wretches caught in
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: the tunnel. But every one in that age must have
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: felt caught in a tunnel. After a time, a storm
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: overtook them and interrupted their conversation. They were going up
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: over a low pass to a guest house at the
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: head of the lake, and it was near the crest
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: of the pass that the storm burst. The lightning was tremendous,
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: and a pine tree was struck not a hundred yards away.
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: They cheered the sight. They were all exhilarated by the
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: elemental clatter and uproar. The rain was like a whip
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: on their bare strong bodies, and the wind came in
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: gusts that held them staggering and laughing breathlessly. Unable to
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: move forward, they had doubts and difficulties with the path.
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: For a time they lost touch with the blazes upon
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: the trees and rocks. Followed a steady torrent of rain,
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: through which they splashed and stumbled down the foaming rocky
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: pathway to their resting place. They arrived wet as from
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: a swim, and glowing, but Sarnak, who had come behind
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: the others with sun ray, was tired and cold. The
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: master of this guest house drew his shutters and made
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: a great fire for them with pine knots and pine cones,
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: while he prepared a hot meal. After a while they
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: began to talk of the excavated town again, and of
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: the shriveled bodies lying away there under the the electric
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: light of the still glass walled museum, indifferent for evermore
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: to the sunshine and thunder storms of life without did
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: they ever laugh as we do? Asked Willow for sheer
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: happiness of living. Sarnac said very little. He sat close
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: up to the fire, pitching pine cones into it and
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: watching them flare and crackle. Presently he got up, confessed
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: himself tired, and went away to his bed. Part three.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: It rained hard all through the night and until nearly midday,
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: and then the weather cleared. In the afternoon. The little
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: party pushed on up the valley towards the mountains they
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: designed to climb, but they went at a leisurely pace,
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: giving a day and a half to what was properly
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: only one day's easy walking. The rain had refreshed everything
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: in the upper valley and called out a great multitude
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: of flowers. The next day was golden and serene. In
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: the early afternoon they came to a plateau and meadows
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: of Asphodel, and there they sat down to eat the
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: provisions they had brought with them. They were only two
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: hours climb from the mountain house in which they were
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: to pass the night, and there was no need to
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: press on. Sarnac was lazy. He confessed to a desire
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: for sleep in the night. He had been feverish and
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: disturbed by dreams of men entombed in tunnels and killed
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: by poison gas. The others were amused that any one
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: should want to sleep in the daylight, but sunray said
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: she would watch over him. She found a place for
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: him on the sward, and Sarnac laid down beside her
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: and went to sleep, with his cheek against her side,
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: as suddenly and trustfully as a child goes to sleep.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: She sat up as a child's nurse might do, enjoining
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: silence on the others by gestures, after this he will
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: be well again, laughed Radiant, and he and Firefly stole
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: off in one direction, while Willow and Starlight went off
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: in another to climb a rocky headland near at hand,
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: from which they thought they might get a very wide
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: and perhaps a very beautiful view of the lakes below.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: For some time saw Nac lake quite still in his sleep,
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: and then he began to twitch, and stir Sonray bent
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: down attentively with her warm face close to his. He
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: was quiet again for a time, and then he moved
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: and muttered, but she could not distinguish any words. Then
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: he rolled away from her and threw his arms about
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: and said, I can't stand it. I can't endure it.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Nothing can alter it. Now you're unclean and spoilt. She
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: took him gently and drew him into a comfortable attitude again,
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: just as a nurse might do dear, he whispered, and
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: in his sleep reached out for her hand. When the
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: others came back, he had just awakened. He was sitting
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: up with a sleepy expression, and Sonray was kneeling beside
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: him with her hand on his shoulder. Wake up, she said.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: He looked at her as if he did not know her,
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: and then with puzzled eyes at Radiant. Then there is
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: another life, he said. At last, Sarnac cried Sonray, shaking him.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Don't you know me? He passed a hand over his face. Yes,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: he said, slowly. Your name is Sunray. I seem to
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: remember Sonray, not Hetty. No, though you are very like
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Hetty Queer and mine mineus Sarnac. Of course I am Sarnac,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: he laughed at Willow. But I thought I was Harry
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Mortimer Smith, he said, I did. Indeed a moment ago
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: I was Henry Mortimer Smith, Henry Mortimer Smith. He looked
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: about him mountains, he said, Sunshine, white Narcissus. Of course
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: we walked up here this very morning. Sun Ray splashed
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: me at a waterfall. I remember it perfectly, and yet
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: I was in bed shot, I was in bed a
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: dream then I have had a dream, a whole lifetime
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: two thousand years ago. What do you mean, said Sunray,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: A lifetime, childhood, boyhood, manhood, and death. He killed me,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: poor rat, He killed me a dream, A dream, but
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: a very vivid dream, the realist of dreams. If it
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: was a dream, I can answer all your questions now, Sunray,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I have lived through a whole life in that old world.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: I know. It is as though that life was still
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: the real one, and this only a dream. I was
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: in a bed five minutes ago. I was in bed,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: I was dying. The doctor said he is going. And
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: I heard the rustle of my wife coming across the room.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Your wife, cried, Sonray, Yes, my wife, Milly. Sonray looked
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: at Willow with raised eyebrows and a helpless expression. Sarnac
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: stared at her, dreamily. Puzzled Milly, he repeated, very faintly.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: She was by the window. For some moments, no one spoke.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Radiant stood with his arm on Firefly's shoulder. Tell us
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: about it, Sarak. Was it hard to die? I seemed
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: to sink down and down into quiet, and then I
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: woke up here. Tell us now, while it is still
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: so real to you have we not planned to reach
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: the mountain house before nightfall, said Willow, glancing at the sun.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: There is a little guest house here within five minutes
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: walk of us, said Firefly. Radiance sat down beside Sarnac.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Tell us your dream now. If it fades out presently,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: or if it is uninteresting, we can go on. But
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: if it is entertaining, we can hear it out and
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: sleep down here to night. It is a very pleasant
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: place here, and there is a loveliness about those mauve
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: colored crags across the gorge, a faint mistiness in their
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: folds that I could go on looking at for a
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: week without impatience. Tell us your dream, Sarnac. He shook
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: his friend, Wake up, Sarnak. Sarnac rubbed his eyes. It
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: is so queer a story, and there would be so
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: much to explain. He took off for a while. It
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: will be a long story, naturally, if it is a
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: whole live First, let me get some cream and croup
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: from the guest house for us, all, said Firefly, and
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: then let Sarnac tell us his dream. Five minutes, Sarnac,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: and I will be back here. I will come with you,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: said Radiant, hurrying after her This that follows is the
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: story Sarnac told. End of section one. Read for you
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: by John Peyton of Omaha, Nebraska, Chowdownright dot blogspot dot
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: com