Every atom of me quivered with delight and shrank with despair.

There was nothing loathsome in it.

But it was as though the icy soul of evil and the fiery soul of good had stepped together within me.

The pistol dropped from my hand.
"So I stood while the Pool gleamed and sparkled; the streams of light grew more intense and the radiant Thing that held me gleamed and strengthened.

Its shining core had shape--but a shape that my eyes and brain could not define.