Jason, Son of Jason

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John Ulrich Giesy. Jason, Son of Jason

Jason, Son of Jason

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INTRODUCTION

I. — THE GATEWAY OF LIFE

II. — THE CHRISTENING

III. — NAIA OF APHUR

IV. — JASON TAKES THE TRAIL

V. — IN BERLA

VI. — PREPARING THE PEOPLE

VII. — PTAR, PRIEST OF BEL

VIII. — THE DREAM OF HELMOR

IX. — THE DEATH PLOT

X. — THE ATTACK

XI. — THE TEMPLE OF BEL

THE END

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John Ulrich Giesy

Published by Good Press, 2022

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Save for the directions for reaching to him, the thing was as real as a telephone message, and the assurance that the husband of your patient would be waiting your arrival at his house. But there was about Croft's promise to await my coming a definite note of conviction in my ability to encompass our mutual purpose that aided me most materially in what followed, as I now confess.

He was so seemingly sure that I would not fail them—that what assistance I could render would be granted—that for the time being it overthrew all doubt of success. Too, I had grown so accustomed to thinking of Naia of Aphur as a woman—a palpitating creature of radiant flesh and blood—that the very reality of her seeming robbed somewhat of its weirdness, its eerie quality, the fact that I was about to respond in the astral body to an urgent medical call. Consciously then I sought to follow Croft's directions.

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