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The world would in time become over-crowded; you would beadding without taking
away. I dont like to touch it, Chloe looked at it in a kind of awe.
But then,
he added, startled, it would practically conferimmortality.
Suppress, if you
can, your righteoussupernatural anger with him, and tell me why you hate him
so.
He metSir Giless eyes and shivered a little. I wouldhave it to be something
very strong andsatisfying.
Why had she rushed round andflown at Sir Giless
throat?
A hand-not Chloes, not the Hajjis, was closing round theStone in his
own hand.
I only want to stop him doing anythingat all with the Stone.
No,
Birlesmere; youre like Salisbury, youre backing the wrong horse. A slight
nausea attackedhim and passed; his brain was swimming in a sudden
faintness.
The possession of the Stone would have to be made illegal. But it
isnt his, Chloe pleaded, not really.
And now Ive urged her to, just to
pleasehim. But I shall do no good at all by beingstuck in last Friday.
Otherwise its almost as good as the Hajji.
He pausedand considered Chloe with
an anxious protectiveness.
Mutiny mightbe dangerous but transit of this sort
would be safe and easy. And again the voice that was Arglays or theStones said
within her: Go on, child. He wasdoing or saying something with each of
them.
Lord Arglay looked at the Type before them. As the others jumped and
gaped Arglay said to Chloe, You cant do anymore.
Sir Giles, theStone clasped in
one hand and his open knife still in the other, mether with a snarl. Go to
hell, he said, and slashed out with the knifeas she caught at his wrist. And
then we will free Giless prisoner in the past.
By the way, I suppose he-what
was hisfilthy name? If his will worked merely in courtesy, might it not be
swept by astronger will?
Well, he willed Of course; they must havepersuaded him
so far.
And by a series of events this Stone came into the hands of Mr.
We
shall be asking the Stone what it would like for breakfastnext. He saw himself
in different positions, now here, now there,and seemed to recognize them. I
would have it to be the End of Desire indeed, Chloe said.
And I wonder, he said
to himself, if anythinghas happened.
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