Your courage and your
intuition may lead us out. Follow the prophecy to the letter,
Chick; it MUST come to pass, exactly as it is written! Don't fail
to read it, there on the walls of the Temple of the Bell, when you
encounter the Bar Senestro on the Day of the Prophet!
"I have discovered many things, my boy, but I am not omnipotent.
Your coming has made possible my last hope that I may return to my
own kind, and take with me the secrets of life. You have done
right to trust your instinct; have no fear, yet remember that if
you--if we--make one false step we are lost.
"Finally, if you should succeed in your contest with the Senestro,
I shall send for you; but if you fail, I know how to die.
"Return at once to the Mahovisal. Don't cross into the Region of
Carbon. Take care how you go back; the Bars are waiting. But you
can put full confidence in the Rhamdas."
Then the speaker dropped the language of the earth and used the
Thomahlian tongue again: "It is I who speak--I, the Prophet; the
Prophet Jarados!"
All in the voice of Dr. Holcomb.
The blazing leaf faded into blackness, and the talking ceased.
Chick was glad of the darkness; the whole thing was like magic,
and too good to believe. The first actual words from the missing
professor! Each syllable was frozen into Watson's memory.
The Geos was clutching his arm.
"Did you understand, my lord? We heard the voice of the prophet!
What did he say?"
"Yes, I understand.
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