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I rose softly, and touched one of the kneeling domestics on the shoulder. "Did you hear the organ?" I said. The woman looked up at me with tearful, alarmed eyes. "No, mademoiselle." I paused, listening. The music grew louder and louder, and surged round me in waves of melody. Evidently no one in the chapel heard it but myself. I looked about for Heliobas, but he had not entered.
"Not possible!" he cried. ... then he added eagerly, "May I look at it?" Silently Heliobas placed it in his outstretched hand.
Turning towards the left, Heliobas drew aside the folds of some azure satin hangings, and calling in a low voice "Zara!" motioned me to enter.
By MY desire, you gave me, without being aware of it, a message from one I love when you said, 'Dieu vous garde! You remember? And the elixir I gave you, which is one of the simplest remedies discovered by Heliobas, had the effect of making you learn what he intended you to learn his name." "He!" I exclaimed. "Why, he does not know me he can have no intentions towards me!"
He paused again, and again continued: "When he found me perfectly healthy again in mind and body, Heliobas showed me his art of mixing colours. From that hour all my works were successful. You know that my pictures are eagerly purchased as soon as completed, and that the colour I obtain in them is to the world a mystery almost magical.
"'Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle Why not I with thine?" "Yes," I said. "I know the lines well. I used to think them very sentimental and pretty." "They contain," said Heliobas, "the germ of a great truth, as many of the most fanciful verses of the poets do. Poets must always be prophets, or their calling is in vain.
His voice thrilled with passion, his aspect was so solemn, and earnest, and imposing that Alwyn, awed and startled, remained for a moment mute then, lifting his head proudly, answered "Yes, I DARE! If I am immortal I will test my immortality! I will face God and find these angels you talk about! What shall prevent me?" "Find the angels!" Heliobas surveyed him sadly as he spoke.
"Fearest thou me, my child? Am I not thy friend? Knowest thou not the name of HELIOBAS?" At this word I start and gasp for breath; I would shriek, but cannot, for a heavy hand seems to close my mouth, and an immense weight presses me down. I struggle violently with this unseen Power little by little I gain the advantage. One effort more! I win the victory I wake!
A remarkable change had taken place in the aspect and bearing of Heliobas, he stood as though rooted to the spot, trembling from head to foot, he had lost all his usual composure, he was deathly pale, and breathed with difficulty.
Tranced into a dream bewilderment by the arts of the mystic Chaldean, Heliobas, tricked into visiting the Field of Ardath, what more likely than that a real earth-born maiden, trained to her part, should have met the dreamer there, and, with the secret aid of the hermit Elezar, continued his strange delusion?
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