The Crystal Egg
The Star (audiobook from librivox)
A Story of the Stone Age (audiobook from librivox)
1. Ugh-lomi and Uya
2. The Cave Bear
3. The First Horseman
4. Uya the Lion
5. The Fight in the Lion's Thicket
A Story of the Days to Come
1. The Cure for Love
2. The Vacant Country
3. The Ways of the City
4. Underneath
5. Bindon Intervenes
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
d the ray, and that the crystal none the less remained luminous. Greatly astonished, he lifted it out of the light ray and carried it to the darkest part of the shop. It remained bright for some four or five minutes, when it slowly faded and went out. He placed it in the thin streak of daylight, and its luminousness was almost immediately restored.
So far, at least, Mr. Wace was able to verify the remarkable story of Mr. Cave. He has himself repeatedly held this crystal in a ray of light (which had to be of a less diameter than one millimetre). And in a perfect darkness, such as could be produced by velvet wrapping, the crystal did undoubtedly appear very faintly phosphorescent. It would seem, however, that the luminousness was of some exceptional sort, and not equally visible to all eyes; for Mr. Harbinger--whose name will be familiar to the scientific reader in connection with the Pasteur Institute--was quite unable to see any light whatever. And Mr. Wace's own capacity for its appreciation was out o
