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Centauri, issue 2, Winter 1944
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Centauri Page 21 - SECRET OF ATLANTIS - telligence is not high." She said it simply, without mockery. A fact. "When the waters engulfed my race the earth must have been plunged backward into barbarism." I admitted that this was true. She had a super-mind. Many emanations from her agile brain escaped me utterly. I was awed in the presence of such mental power; and yet, she was very beautiful. I remembered suddenly my resolve to forget all earthly things, and the memory stabbed me. She seemed to read my mind, and I felt uncomfortable. A curtain dropped between us. "I would like to stay here always," I said. "If I had a body --" The experience in Portland... She stared through the bars of the swaying wagon. I thought I saw a far-away, wistful gleam in her blue eyes. [Image of a woman in a cage with a "beast" in the background.] She looked so forlorn and helpless I had a strange, wild impulse to catch her in my arms...but I had no arms! She smiled and flushed. "You'd better go now," she said. "The cart has stopped -- soon I will go to work. Come to the city of the slaves tonight. I will show you where I live, alone. I have something to tell you -- of great importance --" That night, as I glided toward the slave-city, a large red moon rode swiftly through the sky. Again the strangeness of my surroundings overwhelmed me. Here was freedom, and, perhaps, an alien companion... I found her room in a high tower near the center of the walled city. I marveled at the queerly-angled struct-
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Centauri Page 21 - SECRET OF ATLANTIS - telligence is not high." She said it simply, without mockery. A fact. "When the waters engulfed my race the earth must have been plunged backward into barbarism." I admitted that this was true. She had a super-mind. Many emanations from her agile brain escaped me utterly. I was awed in the presence of such mental power; and yet, she was very beautiful. I remembered suddenly my resolve to forget all earthly things, and the memory stabbed me. She seemed to read my mind, and I felt uncomfortable. A curtain dropped between us. "I would like to stay here always," I said. "If I had a body --" The experience in Portland... She stared through the bars of the swaying wagon. I thought I saw a far-away, wistful gleam in her blue eyes. [Image of a woman in a cage with a "beast" in the background.] She looked so forlorn and helpless I had a strange, wild impulse to catch her in my arms...but I had no arms! She smiled and flushed. "You'd better go now," she said. "The cart has stopped -- soon I will go to work. Come to the city of the slaves tonight. I will show you where I live, alone. I have something to tell you -- of great importance --" That night, as I glided toward the slave-city, a large red moon rode swiftly through the sky. Again the strangeness of my surroundings overwhelmed me. Here was freedom, and, perhaps, an alien companion... I found her room in a high tower near the center of the walled city. I marveled at the queerly-angled struct-
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