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When the World Shook

CHAPTER X
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"Here they are, fashioned of the crystal itself.

A living person within could have pulled it down before the senses departed." "No," I answered; "for look, here is a crystal bolt at the end and it is shot from without." This puzzled him; then as though struck by an idea, he began to examine the other coffin.
"I've got it!" he exclaimed presently.

"The old god in here" (somehow we all thought of this old man as not quite normal) "shut down the Glittering Lady's coffin and bolted it.

His own is not bolted, although the bolt exists in the same place.

He just got in and pulled down the lid.


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