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I knew and felt that there were good and evil forces Now, suppose Zara were couessed at, undreaht-mare? I shuddered as with icy cold It could not be I resolutely refused to adht to s than the so virtuous and ever-respectable Suzanne Michot of whoht cao away

I went to ht fell in cold slanting rays; but an ar in their weird shapes like theto Walhalla with the bodies of dead warriors slung before the to sob round the house like the Banshee Hark! as that? I started violently Surely that was a faint shriek? I listened intently Nothing but the wind rustling a for her demon-lover"

How that line haunted rew up in hastly, that froze iddy Suppose, when I had consented to be experimented upon by Heliobas--when my soul in the electric trance was lifted up to the unseen world--suppose an evil force, terrible and all-co, were to doasped for breath! Oh, so much the more need of prayer!

"Pray much and often, with as unselfish a heart as you can prepare"

Thus Heliobas had said; and I thought to reat sin or criht to feel beforehand what I felt when facing the spectral dread of unknown evil, then surely sins would be fewer and crimes never committed And I murmured softly, "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil"

The eclouds, one star, like a bright consoling eye, looked atdarkness

More than ten minutes had elapsed since Prince Ivan had left the roo footsteps And where was Zara? I detero anywhere in the house, only avoiding her studio during her hours of work; and she never worked at night I would go to her and confide all hts and terrors to her friendly syh the hall and up the staircase quickly, and should have gone straight into Zara's boudoir had I not heard a sound of voices which causedHer low, musical accents fell like a silver chime on the air