Abraham Merritt

Name: The Conquest of the Moon Pool — 4. The Moon Pool
Author: Abraham Merritt

The Conquest of the Moon Pool… (1919)

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“The Conquest of the Moon Pool — 4. The Moon Pool”, published in 1919, is a work by Abraham Merritt. It explores elements such as Von Hetzdorp, O'Keefe and Huldricksson.

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Abraham Merritt, The Conquest of the Moon Pool… (1919)

“ Before me stood O'Keefe, and a dozen feet in front of him, Huldricksson, with something clasped tightly in his arms. The Norseman's feet were at the verge of a shining, silvery lip of stone within whose, oval lay a blue pool. ”

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Abraham Merritt, The Conquest of the Moon Pool… (1919)

“ Larry threw back his shoulders as though shaking a burden from them.
"We're four able-bodied men up against a bunch of moonshine and a lot of dead ones. Buck up, for Heaven's sake!"
"Do you suggest that we poonch our way out?" asked Von Hetzdorp mildly.
"Forget that, professor," answered Larry almost testily. "I suggest that we look around this place and find something that will take us somewhere. You can bet the people that built it had more ways of getting in than that once-a-month family entrance. Doc, you and Olaf explore the left wall; the professor and I will take the right." ”

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Abraham Merritt, The Conquest of the Moon Pool… (1919)

“ A colossal secret!" he said at last. "We cannot leave it hidden."
"The first thing to do is to try the door," said Larry, matter of fact.
"There is no use, my young friend," said Von Hetzdorp mildly.
"Nevertheless we'll try," said Larry.
We retraced our way through the winding tunnel to the end, but soon even O'Keefe saw that any idea of moving the slab from within was hopeless. We returned to the Chamber of the Pool. The pillars of light were fainter, and we knew that the moon was sinking. On the world outside before long dawn would be breaking. ”

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Abraham Merritt, The Conquest of the Moon Pool… (1919)

“ He covered his eyes, and dropping his head on O'Keefe's shoulder, stood, racked by sobs that seemed to tear at his very soul.
VON HETZDORP nodded his head solemnly as Olaf finished.
"Ja!" he said. "That which comes from here took them both—the woman and the child. Ja! They came clasped within it and the stone shut upon them. ”

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Abraham Merritt, The Conquest of the Moon Pool… (1919)

“ The German nodded, betraying no surprise at the recognition,
"And you?" he asked.
"Lieutenant O'Keefe of the Royal Flying Corps," replied Larry, saluting. "And this gentleman is Dr. Walter T. Goodwin."
Von Hetzdorp's face brightened.
"The American botanist?" he queried. I nodded.
"Ach!" cried Von Hetzdorp eagerly; "but this is fortunate. Long I have desired to meet you. Your work, for an American, is most excellent; surprising—"
Huldricksson interrupted him. The big seaman had risen stiffly to his feet and stood with Larry's arm supporting him. He stretched out his hands to me. ”

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Abraham Merritt, The Conquest of the Moon Pool… (1919)

“ I lifted him to his feet.
"I have heard," he said. "We follow quick. If you will take my arm, please, I am shaken yet, yes—" I gripped his shoulder without a word, and the two of us set off down the corridor after Larry. Von Hetzdorp was gasping, and his weight pressed upon me heavily, but he moved with all the will and strength that was in him.
As we ran I took hasty note of the tunnel. I saw that its sides were smooth and polished, and that the light seemed to come not from their surfaces, but from far within them—giving to the walls an illusive aspect of distance and depth ”

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Abraham Merritt, The Conquest of the Moon Pool… (1919)

“ I concluded that whoever had made them, knew the secret of the Almighty's manufacture of light from the ether itself. Colossal! Ja! But the substance of these blocks confines an atomic—how would you say?—atomic manipulation, a conscious arrangement of electrons, light-emitting, and perhaps indefinitely so. ”

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Abraham Merritt, The Conquest of the Moon Pool… (1919)

“ Upon the living skin it acts like radium raised to the nth power and with an element most mysterious added. The solution with which I treated him," he pointed to Huldricksson, "I had prepared before I came here, from information I had of what I might find. It is largely salts of radium, and its base is Loeb's formula for the neutralization of radium and X-ray burns. Taking this man at once, before the degeneration had become really active, I could negative it. But after two hours I could have done nothing." He paused a moment.
"Next I studied the nature of these luminous walls. ”

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