Olga Romanoff . f their brightness by to-morrow. So saying, she busied herself putting away her phials, andpowders, and apparatus. The half of the colourless liquid shehad left she carefully decanted into a tiny flask, over thestopper of which she screwed a silver cap that had a little ringon the top, and this she hung on the chain round her replaced the slip of parchment in its silken bag, and care-fully burnt the paper on which she had made her calculations. By this time the bottom of the crucible was glowing redhot. She noted the time that had elapsed since she hadscrewed the cap d
Olga Romanoff . f their brightness by to-morrow. So saying, she busied herself putting away her phials, andpowders, and apparatus. The half of the colourless liquid shehad left she carefully decanted into a tiny flask, over thestopper of which she screwed a silver cap that had a little ringon the top, and this she hung on the chain round her replaced the slip of parchment in its silken bag, and care-fully burnt the paper on which she had made her calculations. By this time the bottom of the crucible was glowing redhot. She noted the time that had elapsed since she hadscrewed the cap down, waited five minutes longer, and thenextinguished the furnace, undressed, and got into bed, and inhalf an hour was sleeping as quietly as a little child. She hadset the chime of her repeating watch to sound at six, and hungthe watch close above her head. Calm as her sleep was at first, it was by no means dreamless,and her dreams were well fitted to be those of a guilty soulsluniberino; after a work of As SHE GAZED UPON IT, THE FiRES DIED AWAY. Prtge i)l Deed and Dream 57 She saw herself standing with Alan on the glass-domed deckof the air-ship, beneath the light of a clear, white moon sailinghigh in the heavens, and a host of brilliant stars glittering outof the deep-blue depths beyond it. Far below them lay anunbroken cloud-sea of dazzling whiteness, which stretched awayinto the infinite distance on all sides, until it seemed to blendwith the moonlight and melt into the sky. Then the scene changed, and the air-ship swept downwardsin a wide, spiral curve, and plunged through the noiselessbillows of the shadowy sea. As she did so, a fearful chorus ofsounds rose up from the earth below. The moonlight and starlight were gone, and in their placethe lurid glare of burning cities and blazing forests cast a fear-ful radiance up through the great eddying waves of smoke, andreflected itself on the under surface of the clouds; now the air-ship swept hither and thither with be
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