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There, too, it can be caught and thence in an instant returned to earth again, to be reflected in the mirror of the present by those who know how that mirror should be held. Ask me no more; one so wise as you, O Bickley, can solve such problems for himself." "If you don't mind, Lady Yva," said Bastin, "I think I should like to get out of this place, interesting as it is.
To this our only answer was to attend to the lighting of our lamps and the disposal of our small impedimenta, such as our tins of oil and water bottles. Yva noted this and laughed outright. "Courage did not die with the Sons of Wisdom," she said. Then we set out, Yva walking ahead of us and Tommy frisking at her side. Our road led us through the temple.
It ran something as follows, for although I did not understand the language in which he spoke Yva translated it to me in a whisper: "God of the Sons of Wisdom, God of the whole earth, only God to whom must bow every other Power and Dominion, to thee I, Oro the Great King, make prayer and offer sacrifice.
Add to the mixture a most mystic yet very real love affair and an assignation before that symbol of the cold fate which seems to sway the universes down to the tiniest detail of individual lives, and he may begin to understand what I, Humphrey Arbuthnot, experienced during my vigil in this sanctuary of a vanished race. It seemed long before Yva came, but at last she did come.
"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.
The result of this, or so I supposed, was that the compressed air acted as a buffer, lessening our momentum, till at length the huge stone moved but very slowly. "Be ready to follow me," cried Yva again, and we rose to our feet, that is, Bickley and I did, but poor Bastin was semi-comatose. The stone stopped and Yva sprang from it to a rock platform level with which it lay.
She answered my question by another. "What age are your women when they are as I am?" "None of our women were ever quite like you, Lady Yva. Yet, say from twenty-five to thirty years of age." "Ah! I have been counting and now I remember. When my father sent me to sleep I was twenty-seven years old. No, I will not deceive you, I was twenty-seven years and three moons."
"And did you not swear to that wife that you would never look in love upon another woman?" "I did," I answered in a shamed voice. "But how do you know? I never told you so." "Oh! I know you and therefore guessed." "Well, what of it, Yva?" "Nothing, except that you must find your wife before you love again, and before I love again I must find him whom I wish to be my husband."
"Listen, Oro," I exclaimed. "I do not like this business; it seems dangerous to me." "There is no danger if you are obedient, Humphrey." "I think there is. I do not understand what happens. Do you make use of what the Lady Yva called the Fourth Dimension, so that our bodies pass over the seas and through mountains, like the vibrations of our Wireless, of which I was speaking to you?"
"It is a vent up and down which air passes from and to the central hollows of the earth," Yva answered. "Doubtless in the beginning through it travelled that mighty force which blew out these caves in the heated rocks, as the craftsman blows out glass." "I understand," said Bastin. "Just like one blows out a bubble on a pipe, only on a larger scale.
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