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Updated: May 3, 2025
"Aselzion! As you are strong, have patience with the weak! As you see the Divine, pity those who are blind! As you stand firm, stretch a hand to those whose feet are on the shifting quicksands, and if death and oblivion are among the gifts of your bestowal, withhold them not from me, for I would rather die than live!" There was a pause.
Enchanted by this glimpse of loveliness, I went straight on and entered without seeking the right of admission, and then stood looking about me in wonder and admiration. If this was the House of Aselzion, where such difficult lessons had to be learned and such trying ordeals had to be faced, it certainly did not seem like a house of penance and mortification but rather of luxury.
A curious vague terror began to possess me, I fought against its insidious influence, and bending my head down over the paper I had set out before me, I prepared to write. After a few minutes I managed to gain some control over my nerves, and started to put down clearly and in sequence the things Aselzion had told me, though I knew there was little danger of my ever forgetting them.
I am not conscious of having suffered any evil through Rafel Santoris or through Aselzion I am pained and perplexed and tortured by what I hear and see but my hearing and sight are capable of being deceived why should I think of evil things which are not proved?" The woman surveyed me with sudden scorn.
If any evil had chanced to Rafel Santoris, would Aselzion have told me he was 'safe and well' when he had conjured up for my comfort the picture of the 'Dream' yacht on the moonlit sea only a few hours ago?
I thought of the day, barely a week ago, when Rafel stood beside me, his hand clasping mine, such a little division of time seemed to have elapsed since we were together, and yet how long! At last I spoke "I would rather die, if death were possible, than lose his love" I said "And where there is no love, surely there must be death?" Aselzion sighed. "Poor child!
'The rule for her is solitude and silence. So had said Aselzion. And evidently the rule was being enforced. The moon rose slowly between two bars of dark cloud which gradually whitened into silver beneath her shining presence, and a scintillating pathway of diamond-like reflections began to spread itself across the sea.
"Nothing but the most ordinary circumstance," he answered "You will leave this place in perfect safety and return to your home and your usual avocations, you will live as most women live, perhaps on a slightly higher grade of thought and action and in time you will come to look upon your visit to the House of Aselzion as the merest wilful escapade of folly!
I did not waste much time in thinking about it, however, I was only too glad to be allowed to remain in the House of Aselzion on any terras, and the fact that I was imprisoned under lock and key did not now trouble me. I unpacked my few things, among which were three or four favourite books, then I sat down to my frugal repast, for which hunger provided a keen appetite.
A chair was placed in position for the evident purpose of reading and as I approached, at first indifferently and then with awakening interest, I saw that the open book showed an inscription on its fly-leaf "To a faithful student. From Aselzion." Was I 'a faithful student'? I asked myself the question doubtingly. There was no 'faithfulness' in fears and depressions!
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