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Alchemist, v. 1, issue 4, December 1940
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ALCHEMIST 17 of the stratosphere, a faintly sparking cloud grew like a condensation of cosmic dust. And just before down the rock of the hill behind the house melted away, like a curtain that had covered a great tunnel. Five of the men came out of the house and went into the airship. It lifted silently from the ground, slipped into the aperture and vanished. There was a whispering sound, and when it had died away the breast of the hill was whole again. The rocks had been drawn together like a closing curtain and boulders studded it as before. That the breast was now slightly concave where before it had been convex, none would have noticed. For two weeks the sparkling cloud was observed for up in the stratosphere, was comment upon idly, and then was seen no more. Narodny's caverns were finished. Half of the rock from which they had been hollowed had gone with that sparkling cloud. The balance, reduced to its primal form of energy, was stored in blocks of the vitreous material that had supported the cones, and within them it moved as restlessly as always with that same suggestion of prodigious force. .And it was force, ,unthinkably potent; from it came the energy that made the little suns and moons, and actuated the curious mechanisms that regulated pressure in the caverns, supplied the air, created the rain, and made of Narodny's realm a mile deep under earth the Paradise of poetry, of music, of color and of form which he had concieved in his brain and with the aid of those ten others had caused to be. Now of the ten there is no need to speak further. Narodny was the Master. But there, like him, were Russians; two were Chinese; of the remaining
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ALCHEMIST 17 of the stratosphere, a faintly sparking cloud grew like a condensation of cosmic dust. And just before down the rock of the hill behind the house melted away, like a curtain that had covered a great tunnel. Five of the men came out of the house and went into the airship. It lifted silently from the ground, slipped into the aperture and vanished. There was a whispering sound, and when it had died away the breast of the hill was whole again. The rocks had been drawn together like a closing curtain and boulders studded it as before. That the breast was now slightly concave where before it had been convex, none would have noticed. For two weeks the sparkling cloud was observed for up in the stratosphere, was comment upon idly, and then was seen no more. Narodny's caverns were finished. Half of the rock from which they had been hollowed had gone with that sparkling cloud. The balance, reduced to its primal form of energy, was stored in blocks of the vitreous material that had supported the cones, and within them it moved as restlessly as always with that same suggestion of prodigious force. .And it was force, ,unthinkably potent; from it came the energy that made the little suns and moons, and actuated the curious mechanisms that regulated pressure in the caverns, supplied the air, created the rain, and made of Narodny's realm a mile deep under earth the Paradise of poetry, of music, of color and of form which he had concieved in his brain and with the aid of those ten others had caused to be. Now of the ten there is no need to speak further. Narodny was the Master. But there, like him, were Russians; two were Chinese; of the remaining
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