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I lost my footing on the world; my spirit began to wander in strange places; of course, always supposing that we have a spirit, which Bickley would deny. I gave up reason; I surrendered myself to unreason; it is a not unpleasant process, occasionally. Supposing now that all we see and accept is but the merest fragment of the truth, or perhaps only a refraction thereof?
Several other companies were in course of organization in the city and county, but the emergency had passed before they were ready to respond to the call: Fifth Ward Guards, Captain F.S. Bickley, 70 men, Company G, 2d Regiment; September 13. Nicolls Guards, Captain Charles H. Hunter, 104 men, Company E, 11th Regiment; September 15.
She understood, for she answered in much the same language: "What, then, do you call it?" "Sun in the English tongue," I replied. "Sun. English," she repeated after me, then added, "How are you named, Wanderer?" "Humphrey," I answered. "Hum-fe-ry!" she said as though she were learning the word, "and those?" "Bastin and Bickley," I replied.
"Stop talking about eating and help us to haul up the canoe," said Bickley. Between the three of us we dragged and carried the canoe a long way from the lake, fearing lest the natives should come and bear it off with our provisions. Then, having given Tommy his breakfast off the scraps, we walked to the cave. I glanced at my companions. Bickley's face was alight with scientific eagerness.
"You'll find all about it in the Bible if you will only take the trouble to read. Why do you talk such rubbish about gases?" "Because only gas, or something of the sort, could have made us imagine them." "Nonsense, Bickley! Those people were here right enough. Didn't they eat our fruit and drink the water I brought them without ever saying thank you? Only, they are not human.
"I will wait till they come to answer that question. Now let us go for a walk and try to change our thoughts. We are all over-strained and scarcely know what we are saying." "One more question," I said as we rose to start. "Did Tommy suffer from hallucinations as well as ourselves?" "Why not?" answered Bickley.
"Others had knowledge before my father, and others doubtless will have knowledge after him. Even I, Yva, have some knowledge, and knowledge is strength." "Yes," I interposed, "but such powers as you attribute to your father are not given to man." "You mean to man as you know him, man like Bickley, who thinks that he has learned everything that was ever learned. But it is not so.
Such was Bickley with his clever, well-cut face that always reminded me of a cameo, and thoughtful brow; his strong, capable hands and his rather steely mouth, the mere set of which suggested controversy of an uncompromising kind. Naturally as the Church had claimed Bastin, so medicine claimed Bickley.
"Bastin has an open heart and an open mouth," said Bickley, "for which I respect him. Follow his example if you will, Lady Yva, and tell us who and what is the Lord Oro, and who and what are you." "Have we not done so already? If not, I will repeat. The Lord Oro and I are two who have lived on from the old time when the world was different, and yet, I think, the same.
Where do you get the material?" I asked. "Oh!" she answered with an airy wave of her hand, "I make it it is there." "I don't understand," I said, but she only smiled radiantly, offering no further explanation. Then, before I could pursue the subject, she asked me suddenly: "What has Bickley been saying to you about me?" I fenced, answering: "I don't know. Bastin and Bickley talk of little else.
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