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Title: Stories from The earthly paradise
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Evans, C. S. (Charles Seddon), 1883-1944 Morris, William, 1834-1896
Subjects: Mythology Legends
Publisher: London : E. Arnold
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ped aboutthe walls in search of the door bv which he had entered. «/ But he could not find it, for at the very moment whenthe lamp fell, the entrance had been sealed close, and thedesign of the Master Sorcerer who fashioned the placewas accomplished. Thus, in that underground hall, surrounded by themarvels he had seen and the wealth he had coveted, thescholar found the end of all things; and no man, of allwho knew him, guessed what his fate had been. But in the town that very same night, an hour beforedawn, a dreadful storm arose. Peal after peal of thundercrashed, and the blue lightning darted like a flamingsword across the sky. One flash brighter than all therest struck the wooden image, and destroyed it utterly.so that only a charred stump remained to show where ithad been. When the storm had passed, and the frightened folkcame out of their houses in the morning, they wonderedmuch to find the image destroyed, and the pavement atthe foot of it all turned up and broken. They thought
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HE REACHED HIS HAND TO THE SLIM NECK OF THE QUEENAND UNCLASPED THE GOLDEN COLLAR. THE WRITING ON THE IMAGE 89 this, too, was the work of the lightning, for the plate thatcovered the mouth of the pit was set in its place again,and the heavy downfall of rain had washed the soilover it. Yet some idea of an evil purpose still remained in thepeoples minds, and in order to avert whatever fate mightthreaten, and to please the gods, they set up in the placewhere the wooden image had stood a statue of Jove,carved in white stone and thickly overlaid with gold. At the time when this tale was first told, the statuestill remained, so men said, as a witness to the truth ofit, although, indeed, the gold had all vanished, havingbeen stripped away by some needy lord. To-day, nodoubt, not even a trace of the weather-beaten stoneremains. 11 THE LADY OF THE LAND A NUMBER of seamen from Italy once went sailing amongthe islands of Greece in order that they might trade withthe people who lived upon them. Th

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