Rador

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Portrait of Abraham Merritt Abraham Merritt,  The Moon Pool

“ And remembering, with a little shock of apprehension, that he had no knowledge of the Dweller beyond my poor description of it—for there are no words actually to describe what that miracle of interwoven glory and horror was—I wondered what Larry O'Keefe would say and do when he did behold it!
Rador began to show impatience.
"Come!" he urged. "There is much to be done—and the time grows short!"
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Source: Gutenberg

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

“ The amber light grew stronger; the rift above us wider. The tunnel curved; on the left a narrow cleft appeared. The green dwarf leaped toward it, thrust us within, pushed us ahead of him up a steep rocky fissure—well nigh, indeed, a chimney. Up and up this we scrambled until my lungs were bursting and I thought I could climb no more. The crevice ended; we crawled out and sank, even Rador, upon a little, leaf-carpeted clearing circled by lacy tree-ferns.
Gasping, legs aching, we lay prone, relaxed, drawing back strength and breath. Rador was first to rise.
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Source: Wikisource

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

“ The. cavern was paved with the dead-alive, the Akka carrying them out by the hundreds, casting them into the waters. Through the lane, down which the Dweller had passed we went as quickly as we could, coming at last to the space where the coria waited. Rador and the frog-king we placed in our own, where sat, too, the little frog-prince and Lakla's woman monster. ”
Source: Wikisource

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