The Sapphire Goddess
A wholly unusual and thrilling weird story of terrific adventures
and another dimension of space—by the author of "When the
Green Star Waned."
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"Strange, terrible faces
stared at him"
SUICIDE as a means of escaping trouble never appealed to me. I had studied the occult, and knew what consequences that course involved, afterward.
But I was fed up on life. I was destitute, and had no friends who might help, even were I to appeal to them. At forty-eight, one does not easily regain solvency. And, gradually, I'd lost all ambition. Not even hope remained.
If only there were some other road out—a door, for example, into the hypothetical region of four dimensions . . . it certainly couldn't be worse there than what I'd borne in the last three years. Well, I could try. . . .
I seated myself cross-legged on the floor. If I concentrated hard enough, perhaps the miracle might occur . . . atleast I should have tried . . . a last resort. . . . Gradually a vague state ensued wherein I was not unconscious, for I still knew that I was I; yet a queer detach-
