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Updated: June 21, 2025
There are the stars as I engraved them from my foreknowledge, upon this chart, and there those two great planets hang in conjunction. Daughter Yva, my wisdom has not failed me. This world of ours has travelled round the sun neither less nor more than two hundred and fifty thousand times since we laid ourselves down to sleep.
"And what has it brought to you, Yva, beyond a fair body and a soul of strength?" "It has brought a spirit, Humphrey. Between them the body and the soul have bred a spirit, and in the fires of tribulation from that spirit has been distilled the essence of eternal love.
She appeared to be trying to console me for some loss, but the strange thing was that sometimes she spoke with her own voice and sometimes with Yva's, and sometimes looked at me with her own eyes and sometimes with those of Yva. I remember nothing else about these dreams, which were very confused. After one of them, the most vivid of all, I awoke and looked at my watch.
"Really," said Bastin, "it is quite unholy to see an animal going on in that way when it knows that it is about to descend into the bowels of the earth. I suppose it must like them." "Oh! no," commented Bickley, "it only likes what is in them like Arbuthnot. Since that little beast came in contact with the Lady Yva, it has never been happy out of her company." "I think that is so," said Bastin.
Possibly if Yva's theory, as I understood it, were correct, he had reincarnated as Attila, or Tamerlane, or Napoleon, or even as Chaka the terrible Zulu king. At any rate there he was still in the world, filled with the dread of death, but consumed now as ever by his insatiable and most useless finite ambitions. Yva, also! Her case was his, but yet how different.
So should all talk who breathe beneath the sun." "Yes, Yva, but if you went and left me still breathing on that mocking glass " "If so, what of it? Will not your breath fade also and join mine where all vapours go? Or if it were yours that faded and mine that remained for some few hours, is it not the same?
"If it be your pleasure, answer, my Father," said Yva. Oro thought a moment, then replied in a calm voice: "I am a king who once ruled most of the world as it was in my day, though it is true that much of it rebelled against me, my councillors and servants. Therefore I destroyed the world as it was then, save only certain portions whence life might spread to the new countries that I raised up.
Indeed, I thought it well to change the subject for the edification of Bickley who had recovered and was drawn back by his eager curiosity. Just then, too, Bastin joined us, happy in his regained boots. "You tell us, Lady Yva," I said, "that you slept, or should have slept for two hundred and fifty thousand years." Here Bastin opened his eyes. "If that was so, where was your mind all this time?"
The insulated shield and garments that she wore seemed to resist it. For a fraction of time she stood there like a glowing angel, wrapped in fire. Then she was swept outwards and upwards and at a little distance dissolved like a ghost and vanished from our sight. Yva was ashes! Yva was gone! The sacrifice was consummated! And not in vain! Not in vain!
"'Perhaps I shall, my Father, I answered, 'but if so it will not be here. I say that if so we part and you shall be left to rule in your majesty alone. "Now this frightened the Lord Oro, for he has the weakness that he hates to be alone. "'If I do what you will, do you swear never to leave me, Yva? he asked. 'Know that if you will not swear, the man dies.
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