25:T450,ELLUBECQUE EUXINOVA MARCH 1 188X Yet another anonymous warning sent Wilfred Archbairne-Quelleck into the Coelobonese Pavilion of International Trade Exposition to locate a sabotaged fixture and avert an outrage This time message steered him fountain whose jets balanced glass sculptures most celebrated marine invertebrates found off Asian island-kingdom Coelobon Of these model Makassar salp was miniature bomb in disguise He snatch this out exhibit shortly before noon when visitor meant deploy it But yet again despite obvious tampering threat itself absent discerned separate inner chamber filled with stone pellets which pressure from outside could agitate without lethal element petroleum ornament strangely harmless third such incident for And like others coincided genuine atrocity at that moment on citys outskirts boiler public condenser carriage La Gondole exploded unknown reasons killing eleven passengers conductor Employed by Archbairnes Fine Arts Quarterly London behalf Euxinovan crown due his partly extraction served as editor principal scribe 188x Expositions English-language catalog26:T61a,

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WILFRED. What — what is happening?

FIGURE. You’re coming to.

WILFRED. Then I am still myself. Those horrors were only dreams!

FIGURE. Sauntered right past the Curtain of Somnus, did you?

WILFRED. I was attacked — They must have drugged me.

FIGURE. Yes. A long strip of cloth, imbued with a stupefying agent. That is their method. There’s plenty of the stuff in here.

WILFRED. Where are we—?

FIGURE. Inside a rustic wagon, the property of those scoundrels. They imitate the locals but operate as bandits. I appear like one of them, but on my honor I am not.

WILFRED. And here: this red mud again, soiling the floorboards! It’s them. I know they are murderers.

FIGURE. My confederates and I overpowered this band after your abduction. It was sooner than we’d planned, but we had to act.

WILFRED.

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