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The plain black dress I wore was dusty with travel and I shook it as free as I could from railway grimness, feeling that it was scarcely the attire I should have chosen for an audience of Aselzion. "However," I said to myself "if he has me locked up like this, and gives me no chance of sending for my luggage at the inn, I can only submit and make the best of it."
En-isled on heaving sands Of lone desire, spirit to spirit cries, While float across the skies Bright phantoms of fair lands, Where fancies fade not and where dreams abide." His voice dropped to the softest musical cadence, and I looked up. He answered my look. "Dear one!" he said, "You shall go to the House of Aselzion, and with you will be the future!"
"If he loves you no more," went on Aselzion "If he has made an 'error of selection' as the scientists would say, and is not even now sure of his predestined helper and inspirer whose love will lift him to the highest attainment what then?" "What then? Why, I must submit!" I answered, slowly "I can wait, even for another thousand years!"
I was so amazed at the sight of him that for the moment I lay inert, afraid to move for I was almost sure I had incurred his displeasure till suddenly, with the feeling of a child seeking pardon for an offence, I sprang up and ran to him, throwing myself on my knees at his feet. "Aselzion, forgive me!" I murmured "I have done wrong I had no right to go so far "
So the world was desolate, and heaven itself a blank! death, and death alone seemed dear and desirable! I walked slowly and with difficulty my limbs were languid, and I had lost all courage. If I could have found my way to Aselzion I would have told him "This is enough! No more do I need the secret of youth or life, since love has left me." Presently I began to think more coherently.
Oh, how I longed to fly across the strip of water which alone seemed to divide us! and once more to stand on the deck beside him whom I now loved more than my very hopes of heaven! But I knew it was only a vision conjured up before me by the magic of Aselzion, a magic used gently for my sake, to help and comfort me in a moment of sadness and heart's longing.
I take joy in the fact that even in so selfish and material an age as this, Aselzion still has his students and disciples, a mere handful out of the million, it is true, but still sufficient to keep the beautiful truth of the Soul's power alive and helpful to the chosen few.
And yet who were those persons, if persons they were, who talked of him with such easy callousness? I had met no one in the House of Aselzion save Aselzion himself and his servant or secretary Honorius, who then could there be except those two to know the reasons that had brought me hither? I began to question myself and to doubt the accuracy of the terrible news I had inadvertently overheard.
The old man shook his head compassionately. "Poor child!" he said "Are you not a prisoner in the House of Aselzion?" "With my own consent," I answered. He lifted his hands in a kind of appealing astonishment, and the woman smiled sadly. "Not so!" she told me "You are under a very serious delusion.
Hearing a step behind me, I rose and with a glad smile stretched out my hands to Aselzion, who had just then entered. He took them in his own and pressed them lightly then drawing a chair opposite to mine, he sat down. His face expressed a certain gravity, and his voice when he began to speak was low and gentle. "I have much to tell you" he said "but I will make it as brief as I can.
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