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Prince Erlik laughed.

”And suddenly the old order of things began to pa.s.s away more swiftly.

”Between earth and outer s.p.a.ce--between Creator and created, confusing and confounding their ident.i.ties,--a rus.h.i.+ng darkness grew--the hurrying wrack of immemorial storms heralding whirlwinds through which Truth alone survives.

”Awaiting the inevitable reestablishment of such temporary conventions as render the incident of human existence possible, the brooding Demon which men call Truth stares steadily at Tengri under the high stars which are pa.s.sing too, and which at last shall pa.s.s away and leave the Demon watching all alone amid the ruins of eternity.”

The Prophet of the Kiot Bordjiguen

CONTENTS

Preface. Children of the Star

CHAPTER PAGE

I. The Wonder-Box 1

II. Brookhollow 18

III. In Embryo 30

IV. The Trodden Way 38

V. Ex Machina 47

VI. The End of Solitude 60

VII. Obsession 71

VIII. A Change Impends 80

IX. Nonresistance 88

X. Driving Head-on 102

XI. The Breakers 112

XII. A Life Line 122

XIII. Letters from a Little Girl 137

XIV. A Journey Begins 157

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