Tales of Space and Time
The Crystal Egg
The Star
A Story of the Stone Age
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
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s. Even with Mr. Cave the power varied very considerably: his vision was most vivid during states of extreme weakness and fatigue.
Now, from the outset this light in the crystal exercised a curious fascination upon Mr. Cave. And it says more for his loneliness of soul than a volume of pathetic writing could do, that he told no human being of his curious observations. He seems to have been living in such an atmosphere of petty spite that to admit the existence of a pleasure would have been to risk the loss of it. He found that as the dawn advanced, and the amount of diffused light increased, the crystal became to all appearance non-luminous. And for some time he was unable to see anything in it, except at night-time, in dark corners of the shop.
But the use of an old velvet cloth, which he used as a background for a collection of minerals, occurred to him, and by doubling this, and putting it over his head and hands, he was able to get a sight of the luminous movement within the crystal even in t