2 L Sprague de Camp by The Spell of Conan (Ace 1980)

Author:The Spell of Conan (Ace 1980)
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124 THE SPELL OF CONAN deeps; and one knew that it was not into our local waters that the instrument peered. About the head and shoulders of the Gray Mouser a multidimensional distortion became apparent. Beyond this little is known, except things that were said by the sailors who sometimes drift past the Great Salt Marsh that lies beside the city of the Tuatha De Danann called Lankhmar. And these afterwards died of the dread Gnousar sickness. But that the Gray Mouser and Fafhrd were in no way scientists or mechanics,-but brought up some instrument while diving for relics of the lost continents. And at the same time there came these mysterious deep teeth marks in the blade of the latter’s long-sword—of this there can only be the most reasonable doubt. But that the opening into the city where. . . (certain heresies even the king objects to) . . . was at times near Madagascar and at times near the coast of New Jersey, and that flames had only recently licked through where water only should come, and that the Gray Mouser had plotted the course or cycle of the opening and that snail tracks were afterwards found on this chart, and that certain silvern tanks are to be found on the coast of New Jersey where alien and evil waters which come from no known source were stored for a monstrous purpose, and that Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser determined upon a last adventure—of such stuff as this the minstrels sing. However that may be, it is said that there came a swirl of waters on that calm night as if a whirlpool that lay at right angles to the boat had seized it. And one who was swimming near said that he caught a glimpse of the Mouser fighting an indistinct creature that held eight swords in as many writhing arms. And immediately afterwards all was motionless once more. Only the sea trembled slightly. Of these two fragments the first has style and polish, a remarkable example of hitting the right tone on the first attempt. Mine is a reverie projected on the real world; I

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