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"But, Catherine," I ventured to say "the yacht was not really 'strange, it was only moved by a different application of electricity from that which the world at present knows. You would not call it 'strange' if the discovery made by Mr. Santoris were generally adopted?" She sighed. "Perhaps not! But just now it seems a sort of devil's magic to me. Anyhow, I'm glad he's gone.
He spoke with a kind of passion his eyes were luminous his face transfigured with an almost superhuman glow, and we all looked at him in something of amazement. Mr. Harland fidgeted uneasily in his chair. "You go too far!" he said "Life is agreeable as long as it lasts " "Have you found it so?" Santoris interrupted him.
I shuddered a little, as with cold. 'The women who have loved Rafel Santoris! This phrase seemed to darken the very recollection of the handsome face and form of the man I had, almost unconsciously to myself, begun to idealise something coarse and common suggested itself in association with him, and my heart sank within me, deprived of hope. Voices, merely! yet how they tortured me!
There are such people, you know, father! people who, when they are getting old and feeble, go about taking stores of fresh life out of others." He looked amused. "You are full of fancies, Catherine," he said "And no logical reasoning will ever argue you out of them. Santoris is all right. For one thing, he gave me great relief from pain to-day." "Ah!
The floor sank, and I sank with it, down to a great depth so swiftly that I had no time to think what had happened till the sensation of falling stopped abruptly, and I found myself in a narrow green lane, completely shadowed by the wide boughs of over-arching trees. Hardly could I realise my surroundings when I saw Rafel! Rafel Santoris himself walking towards me but not alone!
"You live like a king" then said Mr. Harland, a trifle bitterly "You know how to use your father's fortune." "My father's fortune was made to be used," answered Santoris, with perfect good-humour "And I think he is perfectly satisfied with my mode of expending it. But very little of it has been touched. I have made my own fortune." "Indeed! How?"
And in my foolish pride I had voluntarily severed myself from him! was this my punishment? More talking began, and I listened, like a criminal listening to a cruel sentence. "Aselzion will tell her, of course. Rather a difficult business! as he will have to admit that his teachings are not infallible. And on the whole there was something very taking about Santoris I'm sorry he's gone.
Still walking together like lovers, they came on I knew they must pass me, and I stood in their way that Rafel Santoris at least might see me might know that I had adventured into the House of Aselzion for his sake, and that so far I had not failed! If he were false, then surely the failure would be his!
Harland spoke again. "I am sorry!" he said "I have wronged you and I apologise. But you can hardly wonder at my disbelief, considering your appearance, which is that of a much younger man than your actual years should make you." The rich voice of Santoris gave answer. "Did I not tell you and others long ago that for me there is no such thing as time, but only eternity?
Such mysterious things DO occur, and they are beyond our searching out " "But," she interrupted, quickly "we were not so troubled by these mysterious things till we met this man Santoris " She broke off, and I rose to my feet, as just then Santoris approached, accompanied by Mr. Harland and the others. "I have suggested giving you a sail by moonlight before you leave," he said.
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