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"Had I any mission at all," I replied, with a grateful look, "save the very selfish one which was comprised in the natural desire to be restored to health?" Heliobas surveyed me for a few moments in silence.
There seemed to me to be really nothing extraordinary in it. The only part of Cellini's narration I did not credit was the soul-transmigration he professed to have experienced; and I put that down to the over-excitement of his imagination at the time of his first interview with Heliobas. But I kept this thought to myself. In any case, I resolved to go to Paris.
Swiftly and noiselessly I slipped out of the chapel. As the door swung behind me I heard a sound that first made me stop in sudden alarm, and then hurry on with increased eagerness. There was no mistaking it it was the clash of steel! I rushed to the study-door, tore aside the velvet hangings, and faced Heliobas and Prince Ivan Petroffsky.
"I feel that I must do so in order that you may understand how glad I am, how grateful I am to you." I then related the different scenes through which I had passed, omitting no detail. Heliobas listened with profound interest and attention. When I had finished, he said: "Yours has been a most wonderful, I may say almost exceptional, experience.
"So, Jeanne Claudet!" interrupted Heliobas, in a thrilling low tone. "And what of the child the little waxen-faced helpless babe left to die on the banks of the Loire? But it did not die, Jeanne it was rescued; and it shall yet live to loathe its mother!" The woman uttered a shriek, and fainted.
By the expiration of that time I was strong and well a sound and sane man, as my rescuer had promised I should be my brain was fresh and eager for work, and my mind was filled with new and grand ideas of art. And I had gained through Heliobas two inestimable things a full comprehension of the truth of religion, and the secret of human destiny; and I had won a LOVE so exquisite!"
Zara pressed my hand gently as she passed me, and entered her studio, the door of which closed behind her, and I heard the key turn in the lock. I became absorbed in the proceedings of Heliobas.
And concerning this mystic Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, what treasures of wisdom they must have secreted in their chronicles through so many thousands of years! What a privilege it would be to explore such world-forgotten tracks of time! Yielding to a sudden impulse, Alwyn spoke his thought aloud: "Heliobas," he said, "tell me, could not I, too, become a member of your Fraternity?"
"Positively certain!" returned Heliobas. There was a silence, during which a little tinkling bell resounded in the outer corridor, followed by the tread of sandaled feet on the stone pavement. Heliobas closed the Bible and returned it to its shelf. "That was the dinner-bell," he announced cheerfully. "Will you accompany me to the refectory, Mr.
But my supposed untimely decease served me better than the Browning Society serves Browning!" Again he laughed, Heliobas had listened with a keen and sarcastic enjoyment of the whole story.
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