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"We?" queried Morgana, softly--"WE--of the Church?--or of the Brazen City?"

He looked at her for soure see--and his features expressed a calave them additional char spirit stops at nothing! You have learned much--you are resolved to learn more! Well,--I cannot prevent you,--nor do I see any reason why I should try! You are a resolved student,--you are also a woman:--a woman different to ordinary women and set apart from ordinary womanhood So I say to you 'We of the Brazen City'--if you will! For more than three thousand years 'we' have existed--'we' have studied, 'we' have discovered--'we' have known 'We,' the selected offspring of all the race that ever were born,--'we,' the pure blood of the earth,--'we,' the progenitors of the world TO BE,--'we' have lived, watching teenerations born and die, because, like weeds, they have groithout any root of purpose save to shbours and destroy 'We' re for the full declaration and cul to the end,--when the 'Kingdoana rave, dark face beseechingly

"Then why are you here?" she asked--"If you know,--if you were ever in the 'Brazen City' how did it happen that you left it? How could it happen?"

He smiled down into the jewel-blue of her clear eyes

"Little child!" he said--"Brilliant soul, that rejoiced in the perception that gave you what you called 'the inside of a sun-ray,'--you, for whos which interest men and women of the moht to know that when the laws of the universe are understood and followed, there can be no fetters on the true liberty of the subject? IF I were ever in the 'Brazen City'-- it if I chose--"

She interrupted hi of a hand

"I was told"--she said slowly--"by a Voice that spoke to me--that if I went there I should have to stay there!"

"No doubt!" he answered--"For love would keep you!"

"Love!" she echoed

"Even so! Such love as you have never dreaold! Love!--the only force that pulls heaven to earth and binds theether!"