feelings created by the atmosphere.

After they had proceeded for about ten minutes, the tunnel began to
widen out. The roof was high above their heads, and six men could
have walked side by side. Leehallfae was visibly weakening. Ae
dragged aerself along slowly and painfully, with sunken head.

Maskull caught hold of aer. "You can't go on like that. Better let
me take you back."

The phaen smiled, and staggered. "I'm dying."

"Don't talk like that. It's only a passing indisposition. Let me
take you back to the daylight."

"No, help me forward. I wish to see Faceny."

"The sick must have their way," said Maskull. Lifting aer bodily in
his arms, he walked quickly along for another hundred yards or so.
They then emerged from the tunnel and faced a world the parallel of
which he had never set eyes upon before.

"Set me down!" directed Leehallfae feebly. "Here I'll die."

Maskull obeyed, and laid aer down at full length on the rocky ground.
The phaen raised aerself with difficulty on one arm, and stared with
fast-glazing eyes at the mystic landscape.

Maskull looked too, and what he saw was a vast, undulating plain,
lighted as if by the moon--but there was of course no moon, and