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Updated: June 4, 2025
I saw her ascend the steps bearing the lily in her hand, then turn and wave an adieu to the multitude, who responded by a parting hymn as the great purple valves closed together and rapt her from my sight. Alumion Alumion I could think of nothing but Alumion. Her very name was music in my ears, and her image in my heart was a perpetual banquet of delight I had never known such felicity before.
I wondered what my friends were doing now within that blaze; perhaps they were looking at Venus and speculating on what I was about. How delighted I should be to see them again, and show them my incomparable wife but could I ever take her there? Whilst I was musing, the low sweet voice of Alumion thrilled me to the marrow. I turned and saw her.
I enquired eagerly, for the same thought had been haunting my own mind. It seemed to me that I had known Alumion always. "Assuredly," she replied, "for you and I are kindred souls who have been separated in another world, by death or evil; and now that we have met again, let us be faithful and loving to each other." "Nothing shall separate us any more."
Neither in Womla nor in a desert star could we be happy in a selfish love, knowing that others were in pain." "Better I had not spoken of my world at all." "No, a thousand times no!" cried Alumion with fervour. "For you have opened up to me a new source of happiness of blessedness which I have never known before. Only let us go together to your world and minister to the unfortunate."
Their talk set me thinking of Alumion, and my strange fancy that I had known her in another world. Suddenly it occurred to me that in many of her ways and looks she bore a singular resemblance to my first love, who had died in childhood. That was nearly seventeen years ago. Seventeen it was just the age of Alumion. Could it be possible that she and Alumion were one and the same soul?
As my sole desire was to hear about Alumion, and if possible to see her again, I courted the society of Dinus and Otāré. I knew, of course, that in ten days she would return to her family, but I thought I might be able to visit the temple and perhaps get a glimpse of her. However, I learned from her father that during the sacred festival the temple was closed to the outer world.
Suddenly the most appalling noise rent the air, and caused me to spring back from my bride in terror. It came from the rattlesnake. His grisly body swayed to and fro, his gaping mouth displayed all its horrid fangs, and his large eyes burned like two red-hot coals. "Siloo, Siloo!" cried Alumion hastily in a tone of command. "Down, Siloo!"
With such a woman as Alumion a lover does not stop to 'consider the matter, unless he is a fool." "A woman yes; but remember that she is a woman of another planet. She might not make a suitable wife for you." "I love her. I love her as I can never love a woman of our world. She is a thousand times more beautiful and good than any woman I have ever known.
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