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"I could not speak for joy and gratitude; I grasped ether for a brief interval, when suddenly Heliobas drew hiht and bent his calh me; I still held his hand

"'Rest!' he said in slow and eht fra and deeply injured spirit, be free of thy narrow prison! By that Force which I acknowledge within s, I command thee, REST!'

"Fascinated, awed, overcoazed at hiue refused its office--ave way--I fell senseless"

Cellini again paused and looked at me Intent on his words, I would not interrupt him He went on: "When I say senseless, mademoiselle, I allude of course to my body But I, myself--that is, my soul--was conscious; I lived, I moved, I heard, I saw Of that experience I am forbidden to speak When I returned toon a couch in the same room where I had supped with Heliobas, and Heliobas hi It was broad noonday A delicious sense of tranquillity and youthful buoyancy was uponup from my recumbent position and touched him on the arm He looked up

"'Well?' he asked, and his eyes smiled

"I seized his hand, and pressed it reverently to my lips

"'My best friend!' I exclaimed 'What wonders have I not seen--what truths have I not learned--what s be silent,' replied Heliobas 'They htly spoken of And of the questions you naturally desire to ask me, you shall have the answers in due time What has happened to you is not wonderful; you have simply been acted upon by scientific means But your cure is not yet complete A few days hly Will you consent to reratefully I consented, and we spent the next ten days together, during which Heliobas administered to me certain remedies, external and internal, which had aand well--a sound and sane man, as my rescuer had proer for work, and rand ideas of art And I had gained through Heliobas two inestiion, and the secret of human destiny; and I had won a LOVE so exquisite!"