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In this particular case," I added, looking at Zara, "obedience is very agreeable to me." Heliobas smiled and seemed satisfied. He then took a small goblet from a side-table and left the room. Returning, however, almost immediately with the cup filled to the brim, he said, handing it to me: "Drink this it is your dose for to-night; and then you will go home, and straight to bed."
"To night!" and Heliobas turned his keen, bright eyes full upon him, with a look of amazement and reproach "To night' without faith, preparation or prayer, you are willing to be tossed through the realms of space like a grain of dust in a whirling tempest?
"Do you know, Casimir, I find you sometimes as puzzling as Socrates." "Socrates? Socrates was as clear as a drop of morning dew, my dear fellow," replied Heliobas. "There was nothing puzzling about him. His remarks were all true and trenchant hitting smartly home to the heart like daggers plunged down to the hilt. That was the worst of him he was too clear too honest too disdainful of opinions.
"On the contrary, as reliable as any history ever written," rejoined Heliobas calmly. "Study it for yourself, ... you will see that the prophet was at that time resident in Babylon; the field he mentions was near the city ..." "Yes WAS!" interrupted Alwyn incredulously. "Was and IS," continued Heliobas. "No earthquake has crumbled it, no sea has invaded it, and no house has been 'builded' thereon.
I thank you very much, signor, and I shall thank you more if Heliobas indeed effects my cure." "Oh, that is certain, positively certain," answered Cellini; "you can indulge that hope as much as you like, mademoiselle, for it is one that cannot be disappointed. Before you leave me, you will look at your own picture, will you not?" and, advancing to his easel, he uncovered it.
For one instant I looked at the beautiful dead body of the friend I loved, with its set mouth and placid features, and then I smiled. This was not Zara SHE was alive and happy; this fair clay was but clay doomed to perish, but SHE was imperishable. "Save him save my brother!" These words rang in my ears. I hesitated no longer I determined to seek Heliobas at once.
"It is my handwriting!" he muttered in a tone of stupefied amazement. "Of course! Whose handwriting should it be?" returned Heliobas, watching him with scientifically keen, yet kindly interest. "Then it IS true!" he exclaimed. "True by the sweetness of her eyes, true, by the love-lit radiance of her smile! true, O thou God whom I dared to doubt! true by the marvels of Thy matchless, wisdom!"
"Why?" asked Alwyn astonished "I had hoped for another conversation with you." "To what purpose!" inquired Heliobas mildly. "That I should assert ... and you deny ... facts that God Himself will prove in His own way and at His own appointed time? Nay, we should do no good by further arguments."
"If I was, I am not so any longer. You have promised me health, and that promise is sufficient to give me entire courage." "That is well," said Heliobas. "Courage and hope in themselves are the precursors of physical and mental energy. Remember to-morrow at five, and do not keep late hours to-night. I should advise you to be in bed by ten at the latest."
And now, mademoiselle, permit me to escort you to the door. I shall expect you to-morrow." Together we left the beautiful room in which this interview had taken place, and crossed the hall. As we approached the entrance, Heliobas turned towards me and said with a smile: "Did not the manoeuvres of my street-door astonish you?" "A little," I confessed. "It is very simple.
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