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-*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GRAVE OF SOLON REGH ***
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-
-
-
-                        The Grave of Solon Regh
-
-                          By CHAS. A. STEARNS
-
-              _Among the miserable Ghels of southern Mars
-              George Seeling ventured--ready to share his
-             fearless feats with all the world--but hardly
-               ready to share the grave of Solon Regh._
-
-           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
-                      Planet Stories Winter 1954.
-         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
-         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
-
-
-
-George Seeling was one of the most personable ghouls you would ever
-care to meet. When he disappeared three years ago, somewhere in the
-unexplored wilderness of southern Mars, his loss was mourned not only
-by the Terran Museum of Natural History, for whom he worked, but by a
-multitude of lovers of adventure by proxy, as well, who kept up with
-his astounding fortunes through their daily papers.
-
-For George Seeling, who feared nothing that walked, crawled, flew, or
-pulsed, and who owned, moreover, a shining pair of seven league boots,
-in the form of an inexhaustible expense account, believed in sharing
-himself with the public. He adored publicity.
-
-There was the time, for instance, that he made off with the crown
-jewels of the Tsarn Princess of Ganymede. The people loved it. All of
-them excepting, of course, the Ganymedians. They were considerably
-upset, but being a minority group, there was not much that they could
-do, once Seeling had escaped with the jewels.
-
-Then there was the celebrated occasion of his robbing the crypts of
-Nakor, the Moon Goddess of Io. From Io he swiped several golden idols
-of inestimable value, which was just as well, for they were not doing
-the natives the least bit of good, despite their complaints. It almost
-caused an international incident, but the Museum kept the treasure, and
-their procurer collected a fat commission.
-
-This, as one can readily see, demonstrates graphically that George
-Seeling felt almost as much at home in tombs as he did in the public
-eye.
-
-The south of Mars is a rugged land of naked, red peaks and deep,
-impassable canyons; of reed-filled swamp lands and barren plateaus. The
-people who live there are primitive, and thin as greyhounds, but of a
-shy, gentle nature, with huge, dark, melting eyes set deep in leathery,
-purplish skin, and nervous, splayed bare feet that can pad the sands
-of the uplands at incredible speed.
-
-To George Seeling the ghels were merely an incidental impression to
-add to the menagerie of weird people from many worlds that already
-stuffed his brain and made him rather a cosmopolitan with regard to
-alien cultures. He had already spent several weeks on Mars; most of it
-in Parthena, the chief spaceport of southern Mars, where he haunted the
-bars of the native district, asking, seeking, wheedling, bribing, until
-he found what he sought--a man who could lead him to one of the old
-cities that lay hidden back in the hills.
-
-So it came about that he landed himself and his guide in a rented
-'copter on a certain, uncharted mountainside to the south and west of
-Parthena.
-
-Through the field glasses, the minarets of the city were just visible,
-but it was impossible to get any closer for there was no place to land.
-The old Martians had been averse to flat roofs, a circumstance which
-led Seeling to doubt, audibly, that they could have had the sense of an
-addled eel.
-
-After loading himself down with the paraphernalia that explorers are
-supposed to carry, he went on alone, the guide declining an invitation
-to accompany him.
-
-It was almost dark when he stumbled over the first bit of masonry--some
-prehistoric curbstone, perhaps. He had walked for hours in a tangled
-forest of giant reeds, and the suddenness of his discovery startled him.
-
-He had wandered right into the midst of the abandoned city without even
-knowing it. Such was the customary luck of George Seeling. He could see
-shadowy outlines of some of the eroding old towers from where he stood,
-but he knew it was too late in the evening to explore them safely. He
-had waited this long; it wouldn't hurt to wait through one more short,
-Martian night.
-
-He found a clearing near a roofless columnar tower and spread his
-sleeping bag beneath its wall. He went to sleep elated with his good
-fortune, and slept dreamlessly, and without disturbance.
-
-But then, it took a great deal to disturb George Seeling when he slept.
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-In the morning the ghels were there. There were about a dozen of them,
-silently squatting in a semi-circle about his camp, contemplating him
-at a respectful distance with their soulful, gazelle eyes.
-
-There is something disconcerting about waking up and finding that one
-has acquired uninvited guests, but Seeling never turned a hair. He
-reached over and grabbed his rifle, but the ghels never moved. They
-looked, for all the world, like purple-brown graven images squatting
-there, except that the round, black eyes blinked once in a while.
-
-The ghel tongue was a very rudimentary one, and Seeling, who was
-naturally adept at such things, had studied it at some length during
-the weeks in Parthena. He felt that he could get along.
-
-"I greet you," he said, still fondling his rifle. "I am an Earthman."
-
-"We know," one of the ghels said in a curious, whistling voice. "What
-do you want here?"
-
-"I come to see the city," George said.
-
-"This is the sacred dead city of Solon Regh, the wisest of the ancient
-ones. We do not welcome visitors here."
-
-"It's not your city, dammit," George said.
-
-"What did you say?"
-
-"Sorry, I said, this is not the work of your race. Why do you care if I
-look around?"
-
-"It is a shrine. The old ones took care of us before they went away. We
-loved them, and do not want their dead disturbed."
-
-George Seeling grinned with delight. He never enjoyed himself so much
-as when he was where he wasn't supposed to be.
-
-"We would be very sad if the dead were desecrated," the ghel said.
-
-"Umm," said Seeling impudently, "but what would you do if I went ahead
-and desecrated them anyway?"
-
-The head ghel looked shocked. He turned his saucer eyes on his
-companions, and they all squirmed on their haunches and looked shocked
-too.
-
-"We would be very sad," the ghel answered.
-
-"No hard feelings," George Seeling said, "but if the advancement of
-science and the dispersal of knowledge were left up to you fellows, the
-world would be in a hell of a fix." He aimed his rifle suggestively at
-the ghel's chest. "Do you know what this is that I am pointing at you?"
-
-"It is a death stick. We have seen them before."
-
-"Right. Now, there's something you can do for me, and I'll take it very
-kindly if you cooperate."
-
-"Kindness is something we understand."
-
-"That's fine. Somewhere about here are the tombs of the old race. All
-the legends of Mars tell about the wealth of the ancients, and I hear
-this Solon Regh was sort of a Martian King Tut. Lead me there, and I'll
-be kind enough to spare your life."
-
-The ghels all blinked their eyes rapidly. Seeling fancied that there
-would have been tears in their eyes, except that ghels have no tear
-glands. He felt a little sorry for them.
-
-"Come with us," the leader of the ghels said.
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-Seeling was properly impressed. He had seen enough of the old cultures
-of the planets to realize that here, indeed, was something special. The
-walls loomed high above his head, shutting out the light of the morning
-sun as he walked down the street canyons where the vegetation had not
-yet penetrated. The ghels padded on ahead of him.
-
-There was a musty smell about the place. Most appropriate. And the old
-timers had quite a flair for architecture, he thought. The masonry was
-a kind of cemented substance that was nearly as hard as granite. The
-weather had eroded it into a lovely, pearly grayness that was satiny
-smooth to the touch. He stroked the walls lovingly, and wished that he
-could transport the whole place back to Earth.
-
-At the end of one street a bright yellow kral snake struck at him and
-he killed it with the butt of his rifle. They encountered no other
-life. Everywhere there was silence.
-
-The ghels made several turns through narrow passageways, and all at
-once Seeling was face to face with the most breathtaking sight he had
-ever beheld.
-
-In a great, hidden courtyard the palace lay. It was at least six
-hundred feet high, from massive base to delicate multiple pinnacles
-that festooned the arched roof. The facade was inscribed with countless
-lacy designs, set into the mother masonry with snowy white stones.
-
-The great arched doorway gaped open invitingly to the kind of darkness
-that Seeling found most exciting.
-
-The ghels stopped. "You are certain that you will not change your mind?"
-
-"Look here," Seeling said. "I've come here to collect artifacts, or
-anything I can lay my hands on for my people on Earth. If I don't bring
-something good back, they'll send others who won't be as patient with
-you as I am."
-
-"That is sad, indeed, for the Radiance that made us still lingers in
-the castle," said the ghel.
-
-"I'm not going to hurt His Radiant Majesty, whoever he is," Seeling
-said. "What I want is junk--stuff that you never use anyhow. So let's
-get on with it."
-
-George Seeling was panting by the time he had climbed to the top of the
-central tower. He had always thought of a tomb as some damp, dark hole
-beneath the surface of the ground, for such had been his experience
-many times before. But the resting place of Solon Regh the Wise was a
-large, light room, not half so eerie as the big throne room below, for
-instance.
-
-It took him five minutes to work the mechanism of the outer door. When
-he got it open he went in and found a convenient coffin to sit on,
-wiped the sweat from his forehead, and indulged in a cigarette before
-continuing.
-
-The room had no windows, but there was light coming in from the
-great transparent dome of roof. A cheerful place, he thought, for a
-crypt. There were six coffins in the room, neatly arranged around its
-periphery. He wondered which one was Solon Regh's.
-
-All of the biers were plain, untarnished metal--a silvery alloy he
-couldn't quite identify. Upon one of them there was a modest crest, or
-symbol. That one, he decided, must be the coffin of Solon Regh.
-
-He was feeling a little ill. A headache from the altitude, he thought.
-Or perhaps he'd caught a touch of the fever. Better to get it over with
-and get out of here. All the pleasure of discovery was gone now.
-
-He took out his array of chisels and went to work on the coffin, which
-yielded easily to his professional looter's touch. The lid was light
-and slid aside soundlessly.
-
-George Seeling came face to face with Solon Regh. The relics of
-Regh the Wise seemed to be in perfect condition. Over all lay a
-semi-transparent coating of a waxy substance--the preservative, he
-supposed. The figure was as large as his own. The old race must have
-been much closer, genetically, to his own than the ghels.
-
-But Seeling was not concerned with any of this. He flopped Solon
-Regh over on his belly without ceremony and examined the bottom of
-the coffin. It was no use. No treasure here. He did find something,
-however. The ring on Solon Regh's finger. He chipped off the
-preservative, slid the ring off and put it in his pocket. Then he
-examined the other coffins. Wives, perhaps, and dignitaries of court,
-these had been. There were both male and female. But no jewelry.
-
-He searched the room carefully, but there was nothing to be found.
-It had not been their custom, then, to bury their treasures with
-the dead--or perhaps the ghels had taken it. No matter, he knew the
-futility of looking further.
-
-When a race chose to hide its treasures, rather than try to take them
-along to the happy hunting grounds, they usually did a good job. He
-remembered searching in vain for a solid year in the catacombs of
-Neptune once.
-
-His face was burning with some inner fire now; he knew that he must
-have a high fever. He felt much worse. But to go back empty handed!
-
-And suddenly he knew that he would not.
-
-He took the steps back down to the throne room three at a time, for he
-felt, strangely, that he must hurry. The ghels were still waiting for
-him there in the gloom. There seemed to be more of them now, but he
-didn't bother to count.
-
-"I want eight of you," he said. "You are to come with me up to the
-crypts. I'm taking the coffin of Solon Regh back with me, and you are
-going to carry it. I don't want any arguments. I'll pay you whatever
-you want, but it's got to be done right away."
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-They were not a strong race, the ghels, and the box was without
-handles, but they finally got it to their shoulders. Twice coming down
-the spiraling staircases they slipped, and he cursed them furiously,
-then was amazed that he could be so distraught.
-
-They carried it down to the throneroom and set it down. The big rotunda
-was full of ghels by this time; hundreds of them.
-
-"What the hell is this?" George Seeling said, and his voice sounded
-thick to him. "If you're going to start trouble--I'll kill the first
-ghel that lays a hand on me or the coffin."
-
-He waited for an answer. There was not a sound among the dark multitude
-of ghels. They watched him, sorrowfully.
-
-"Well?" Seeling bellowed.
-
-The ghel who had talked with him before said, "We are gathered here for
-a telling. Will you crouch there and hear us?"
-
-"I don't know what you're talking about!"
-
-"Please hear us."
-
-Seeling looked around him. Better not to antagonize them at that, he
-supposed, since it seemed that they had no intentions, at present, of
-doing anything drastic.
-
-He waited.
-
-"Long ago," the ghel said, "there were the old ones. They were as gods,
-and knew great magic. All was happiness. But the magic was not great
-enough, for one day there came invaders from beyond the stars, and
-sprayed the cities with green fire that was so light that its touch
-could not be felt, and yet it killed in great numbers--and the rest it
-changed.
-
-"Solon Regh, who was wise, took his family about him and hid in the
-tower behind air-tight doors where the green fire could not come. Many
-weeks he stayed there, with an air purifier to keep out the radiance,
-and let in fresh air, and at last the enemy left. The ones who were
-left had changed more and more, so that even in their heads they were
-affected, and could scarcely take care of themselves.
-
-"Solon Regh, from behind his steel door, where the pure air was,
-sorrowed for us, and counseled us to pick up our lives as best we
-could. He did not dare come out because the radiance did not leave, but
-hung about the palace. We did not care any more. We knew the radiance
-would always be there, but it could not hurt us now. Solon Regh and
-his family did all they could for us, and remembered all the wonderful
-knowledge that we had forgotten. They tried to teach us, but we had
-forgotten how to learn, too."
-
-"We? We?" George Seeling screamed. "What are you talking about?"
-
-"We ghels. Do you not understand? _We_ were the old ones."
-
-"Oh, God!" George said.
-
-"The Radiance is still in the buildings. That is what we tried to tell
-you before. But it is too late now. It has touched you."
-
-"Let me out of here!" Seeling sobbed. "I won't be changed by any damned
-radiation. I'll go back to Earth. They'll help me. They'll know what to
-do. He-help me, dammit!"
-
-"You will not go back," the ghel said. "I am sorry, but you really
-cannot go back like this; you will be more at home here from now on."
-
-All the ghels looked at George Seeling with sad, limpid stares. They
-were silent. There wasn't any more to be said. Nothing that they could
-think of.
-
-And George Seeling, squatting there, gazed back at them with big,
-saucer eyes.
-
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-<h1>The Grave of Solon Regh</h1>
-
-<h2>By CHAS. A. STEARNS</h2>
-
-<p><i>Among the miserable Ghels of southern Mars<br />
-George Seeling ventured&mdash;ready to share his<br />
-fearless feats with all the world&mdash;but hardly<br />
-ready to share the grave of Solon Regh.</i></p>
-
-<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br />
-Planet Stories Winter 1954.<br />
-Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br />
-the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p>
-
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<p>George Seeling was one of the most personable ghouls you would ever
-care to meet. When he disappeared three years ago, somewhere in the
-unexplored wilderness of southern Mars, his loss was mourned not only
-by the Terran Museum of Natural History, for whom he worked, but by a
-multitude of lovers of adventure by proxy, as well, who kept up with
-his astounding fortunes through their daily papers.</p>
-
-<p>For George Seeling, who feared nothing that walked, crawled, flew, or
-pulsed, and who owned, moreover, a shining pair of seven league boots,
-in the form of an inexhaustible expense account, believed in sharing
-himself with the public. He adored publicity.</p>
-
-<p>There was the time, for instance, that he made off with the crown
-jewels of the Tsarn Princess of Ganymede. The people loved it. All of
-them excepting, of course, the Ganymedians. They were considerably
-upset, but being a minority group, there was not much that they could
-do, once Seeling had escaped with the jewels.</p>
-
-<p>Then there was the celebrated occasion of his robbing the crypts of
-Nakor, the Moon Goddess of Io. From Io he swiped several golden idols
-of inestimable value, which was just as well, for they were not doing
-the natives the least bit of good, despite their complaints. It almost
-caused an international incident, but the Museum kept the treasure, and
-their procurer collected a fat commission.</p>
-
-<p>This, as one can readily see, demonstrates graphically that George
-Seeling felt almost as much at home in tombs as he did in the public
-eye.</p>
-
-<p>The south of Mars is a rugged land of naked, red peaks and deep,
-impassable canyons; of reed-filled swamp lands and barren plateaus. The
-people who live there are primitive, and thin as greyhounds, but of a
-shy, gentle nature, with huge, dark, melting eyes set deep in leathery,
-purplish skin, and nervous, splayed bare feet that can pad the sands
-of the uplands at incredible speed.</p>
-
-<p>To George Seeling the ghels were merely an incidental impression to
-add to the menagerie of weird people from many worlds that already
-stuffed his brain and made him rather a cosmopolitan with regard to
-alien cultures. He had already spent several weeks on Mars; most of it
-in Parthena, the chief spaceport of southern Mars, where he haunted the
-bars of the native district, asking, seeking, wheedling, bribing, until
-he found what he sought&mdash;a man who could lead him to one of the old
-cities that lay hidden back in the hills.</p>
-
-<p>So it came about that he landed himself and his guide in a rented
-'copter on a certain, uncharted mountainside to the south and west of
-Parthena.</p>
-
-<p>Through the field glasses, the minarets of the city were just visible,
-but it was impossible to get any closer for there was no place to land.
-The old Martians had been averse to flat roofs, a circumstance which
-led Seeling to doubt, audibly, that they could have had the sense of an
-addled eel.</p>
-
-<p>After loading himself down with the paraphernalia that explorers are
-supposed to carry, he went on alone, the guide declining an invitation
-to accompany him.</p>
-
-<p>It was almost dark when he stumbled over the first bit of masonry&mdash;some
-prehistoric curbstone, perhaps. He had walked for hours in a tangled
-forest of giant reeds, and the suddenness of his discovery startled him.</p>
-
-<p>He had wandered right into the midst of the abandoned city without even
-knowing it. Such was the customary luck of George Seeling. He could see
-shadowy outlines of some of the eroding old towers from where he stood,
-but he knew it was too late in the evening to explore them safely. He
-had waited this long; it wouldn't hurt to wait through one more short,
-Martian night.</p>
-
-<p>He found a clearing near a roofless columnar tower and spread his
-sleeping bag beneath its wall. He went to sleep elated with his good
-fortune, and slept dreamlessly, and without disturbance.</p>
-
-<p>But then, it took a great deal to disturb George Seeling when he slept.</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<p>In the morning the ghels were there. There were about a dozen of them,
-silently squatting in a semi-circle about his camp, contemplating him
-at a respectful distance with their soulful, gazelle eyes.</p>
-
-<p>There is something disconcerting about waking up and finding that one
-has acquired uninvited guests, but Seeling never turned a hair. He
-reached over and grabbed his rifle, but the ghels never moved. They
-looked, for all the world, like purple-brown graven images squatting
-there, except that the round, black eyes blinked once in a while.</p>
-
-<p>The ghel tongue was a very rudimentary one, and Seeling, who was
-naturally adept at such things, had studied it at some length during
-the weeks in Parthena. He felt that he could get along.</p>
-
-<p>"I greet you," he said, still fondling his rifle. "I am an Earthman."</p>
-
-<p>"We know," one of the ghels said in a curious, whistling voice. "What
-do you want here?"</p>
-
-<p>"I come to see the city," George said.</p>
-
-<p>"This is the sacred dead city of Solon Regh, the wisest of the ancient
-ones. We do not welcome visitors here."</p>
-
-<p>"It's not your city, dammit," George said.</p>
-
-<p>"What did you say?"</p>
-
-<p>"Sorry, I said, this is not the work of your race. Why do you care if I
-look around?"</p>
-
-<p>"It is a shrine. The old ones took care of us before they went away. We
-loved them, and do not want their dead disturbed."</p>
-
-<p>George Seeling grinned with delight. He never enjoyed himself so much
-as when he was where he wasn't supposed to be.</p>
-
-<p>"We would be very sad if the dead were desecrated," the ghel said.</p>
-
-<p>"Umm," said Seeling impudently, "but what would you do if I went ahead
-and desecrated them anyway?"</p>
-
-<p>The head ghel looked shocked. He turned his saucer eyes on his
-companions, and they all squirmed on their haunches and looked shocked
-too.</p>
-
-<p>"We would be very sad," the ghel answered.</p>
-
-<p>"No hard feelings," George Seeling said, "but if the advancement of
-science and the dispersal of knowledge were left up to you fellows, the
-world would be in a hell of a fix." He aimed his rifle suggestively at
-the ghel's chest. "Do you know what this is that I am pointing at you?"</p>
-
-<p>"It is a death stick. We have seen them before."</p>
-
-<p>"Right. Now, there's something you can do for me, and I'll take it very
-kindly if you cooperate."</p>
-
-<p>"Kindness is something we understand."</p>
-
-<p>"That's fine. Somewhere about here are the tombs of the old race. All
-the legends of Mars tell about the wealth of the ancients, and I hear
-this Solon Regh was sort of a Martian King Tut. Lead me there, and I'll
-be kind enough to spare your life."</p>
-
-<p>The ghels all blinked their eyes rapidly. Seeling fancied that there
-would have been tears in their eyes, except that ghels have no tear
-glands. He felt a little sorry for them.</p>
-
-<p>"Come with us," the leader of the ghels said.</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<p>Seeling was properly impressed. He had seen enough of the old cultures
-of the planets to realize that here, indeed, was something special. The
-walls loomed high above his head, shutting out the light of the morning
-sun as he walked down the street canyons where the vegetation had not
-yet penetrated. The ghels padded on ahead of him.</p>
-
-<p>There was a musty smell about the place. Most appropriate. And the old
-timers had quite a flair for architecture, he thought. The masonry was
-a kind of cemented substance that was nearly as hard as granite. The
-weather had eroded it into a lovely, pearly grayness that was satiny
-smooth to the touch. He stroked the walls lovingly, and wished that he
-could transport the whole place back to Earth.</p>
-
-<p>At the end of one street a bright yellow kral snake struck at him and
-he killed it with the butt of his rifle. They encountered no other
-life. Everywhere there was silence.</p>
-
-<p>The ghels made several turns through narrow passageways, and all at
-once Seeling was face to face with the most breathtaking sight he had
-ever beheld.</p>
-
-<p>In a great, hidden courtyard the palace lay. It was at least six
-hundred feet high, from massive base to delicate multiple pinnacles
-that festooned the arched roof. The facade was inscribed with countless
-lacy designs, set into the mother masonry with snowy white stones.</p>
-
-<p>The great arched doorway gaped open invitingly to the kind of darkness
-that Seeling found most exciting.</p>
-
-<p>The ghels stopped. "You are certain that you will not change your mind?"</p>
-
-<p>"Look here," Seeling said. "I've come here to collect artifacts, or
-anything I can lay my hands on for my people on Earth. If I don't bring
-something good back, they'll send others who won't be as patient with
-you as I am."</p>
-
-<p>"That is sad, indeed, for the Radiance that made us still lingers in
-the castle," said the ghel.</p>
-
-<p>"I'm not going to hurt His Radiant Majesty, whoever he is," Seeling
-said. "What I want is junk&mdash;stuff that you never use anyhow. So let's
-get on with it."</p>
-
-<p>George Seeling was panting by the time he had climbed to the top of the
-central tower. He had always thought of a tomb as some damp, dark hole
-beneath the surface of the ground, for such had been his experience
-many times before. But the resting place of Solon Regh the Wise was a
-large, light room, not half so eerie as the big throne room below, for
-instance.</p>
-
-<p>It took him five minutes to work the mechanism of the outer door. When
-he got it open he went in and found a convenient coffin to sit on,
-wiped the sweat from his forehead, and indulged in a cigarette before
-continuing.</p>
-
-<p>The room had no windows, but there was light coming in from the
-great transparent dome of roof. A cheerful place, he thought, for a
-crypt. There were six coffins in the room, neatly arranged around its
-periphery. He wondered which one was Solon Regh's.</p>
-
-<p>All of the biers were plain, untarnished metal&mdash;a silvery alloy he
-couldn't quite identify. Upon one of them there was a modest crest, or
-symbol. That one, he decided, must be the coffin of Solon Regh.</p>
-
-<p>He was feeling a little ill. A headache from the altitude, he thought.
-Or perhaps he'd caught a touch of the fever. Better to get it over with
-and get out of here. All the pleasure of discovery was gone now.</p>
-
-<p>He took out his array of chisels and went to work on the coffin, which
-yielded easily to his professional looter's touch. The lid was light
-and slid aside soundlessly.</p>
-
-<p>George Seeling came face to face with Solon Regh. The relics of
-Regh the Wise seemed to be in perfect condition. Over all lay a
-semi-transparent coating of a waxy substance&mdash;the preservative, he
-supposed. The figure was as large as his own. The old race must have
-been much closer, genetically, to his own than the ghels.</p>
-
-<p>But Seeling was not concerned with any of this. He flopped Solon
-Regh over on his belly without ceremony and examined the bottom of
-the coffin. It was no use. No treasure here. He did find something,
-however. The ring on Solon Regh's finger. He chipped off the
-preservative, slid the ring off and put it in his pocket. Then he
-examined the other coffins. Wives, perhaps, and dignitaries of court,
-these had been. There were both male and female. But no jewelry.</p>
-
-<p>He searched the room carefully, but there was nothing to be found.
-It had not been their custom, then, to bury their treasures with
-the dead&mdash;or perhaps the ghels had taken it. No matter, he knew the
-futility of looking further.</p>
-
-<p>When a race chose to hide its treasures, rather than try to take them
-along to the happy hunting grounds, they usually did a good job. He
-remembered searching in vain for a solid year in the catacombs of
-Neptune once.</p>
-
-<p>His face was burning with some inner fire now; he knew that he must
-have a high fever. He felt much worse. But to go back empty handed!</p>
-
-<p>And suddenly he knew that he would not.</p>
-
-<p>He took the steps back down to the throne room three at a time, for he
-felt, strangely, that he must hurry. The ghels were still waiting for
-him there in the gloom. There seemed to be more of them now, but he
-didn't bother to count.</p>
-
-<p>"I want eight of you," he said. "You are to come with me up to the
-crypts. I'm taking the coffin of Solon Regh back with me, and you are
-going to carry it. I don't want any arguments. I'll pay you whatever
-you want, but it's got to be done right away."</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<p>They were not a strong race, the ghels, and the box was without
-handles, but they finally got it to their shoulders. Twice coming down
-the spiraling staircases they slipped, and he cursed them furiously,
-then was amazed that he could be so distraught.</p>
-
-<p>They carried it down to the throneroom and set it down. The big rotunda
-was full of ghels by this time; hundreds of them.</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<div class="figcenter">
-  <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<p>"What the hell is this?" George Seeling said, and his voice sounded
-thick to him. "If you're going to start trouble&mdash;I'll kill the first
-ghel that lays a hand on me or the coffin."</p>
-
-<p>He waited for an answer. There was not a sound among the dark multitude
-of ghels. They watched him, sorrowfully.</p>
-
-<p>"Well?" Seeling bellowed.</p>
-
-<p>The ghel who had talked with him before said, "We are gathered here for
-a telling. Will you crouch there and hear us?"</p>
-
-<p>"I don't know what you're talking about!"</p>
-
-<p>"Please hear us."</p>
-
-<p>Seeling looked around him. Better not to antagonize them at that, he
-supposed, since it seemed that they had no intentions, at present, of
-doing anything drastic.</p>
-
-<p>He waited.</p>
-
-<p>"Long ago," the ghel said, "there were the old ones. They were as gods,
-and knew great magic. All was happiness. But the magic was not great
-enough, for one day there came invaders from beyond the stars, and
-sprayed the cities with green fire that was so light that its touch
-could not be felt, and yet it killed in great numbers&mdash;and the rest it
-changed.</p>
-
-<p>"Solon Regh, who was wise, took his family about him and hid in the
-tower behind air-tight doors where the green fire could not come. Many
-weeks he stayed there, with an air purifier to keep out the radiance,
-and let in fresh air, and at last the enemy left. The ones who were
-left had changed more and more, so that even in their heads they were
-affected, and could scarcely take care of themselves.</p>
-
-<p>"Solon Regh, from behind his steel door, where the pure air was,
-sorrowed for us, and counseled us to pick up our lives as best we
-could. He did not dare come out because the radiance did not leave, but
-hung about the palace. We did not care any more. We knew the radiance
-would always be there, but it could not hurt us now. Solon Regh and
-his family did all they could for us, and remembered all the wonderful
-knowledge that we had forgotten. They tried to teach us, but we had
-forgotten how to learn, too."</p>
-
-<p>"We? We?" George Seeling screamed. "What are you talking about?"</p>
-
-<p>"We ghels. Do you not understand? <i>We</i> were the old ones."</p>
-
-<p>"Oh, God!" George said.</p>
-
-<p>"The Radiance is still in the buildings. That is what we tried to tell
-you before. But it is too late now. It has touched you."</p>
-
-<p>"Let me out of here!" Seeling sobbed. "I won't be changed by any damned
-radiation. I'll go back to Earth. They'll help me. They'll know what to
-do. He-help me, dammit!"</p>
-
-<p>"You will not go back," the ghel said. "I am sorry, but you really
-cannot go back like this; you will be more at home here from now on."</p>
-
-<p>All the ghels looked at George Seeling with sad, limpid stares. They
-were silent. There wasn't any more to be said. Nothing that they could
-think of.</p>
-
-<p>And George Seeling, squatting there, gazed back at them with big,
-saucer eyes.</p>
-
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