A. E. Merritt - The Pool of the Stone God

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Title: The Pool of the Stone God

Author: Abraham Merritt

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THE POOL OF THE STONE GOD

Abraham Merritt

(written under the pseudonym W. Fenimore)

This is Professor James Marston's story. A score of learned bodies have courteously heard him tell it,

and then among themselves have lamented that so brilliant a man should have such an obsession.

Professor Marston told it to me in San Francisco, just before he started to find the island that holds his

pool of the stone god and--the wings that guard it. He seemed to me very sane. It is true that the

equipment of his expedition was unusual, and not the least curious part of it are the suits of fine chain mail

and masks and gauntlets with which each man of the party is provided.

The five of us, said Professor Marston, sat side by side on the beach. There was Wilkinson the first

officer, Bates and Cassidy the two seamen, Waters the pearler and myself. We had all been on our way

to New Guinea, I to study the fossils for the Smithsonian. The Moranus had struck the hidden reef the

night before and had sunk swiftly. We were then, roughly, about five hundred miles northeast of the

Guinea coast. The five of us had managed to drop a lifeboat and get away. The boat was well stocked

with water and provisions. Whether the rest of the crew had escaped we did not know. We had sighted

the island at dawn and had made for her. The lifeboat was drawn safely up on the sands.

"We'd better explore a bit, anyway," said Waters. "This may be a perfect place for us to wait rescue. At

least until the typhoon season is over. We've our pistols. Let's start by following this brook to its source,

look over the place and then decide what we'll do."

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