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"I am sure they are!" I cried triumphantly

Zara held out her arms to me

"And you are sure you love me?" she asked

I nestled into her embrace and kissed her

"Sure!" I answered "Zara, I love and honour you more than any woman I ever met or ever shall meet And you love me--I know you do!"

"How can I help it?" she said "Are you not one of us? Good-night, dearest! Sleep well!"

"Good-night!" I answered "And remember Prince Ivan asked for your pardon"

"I remember!" she replied softly "I have already pardoned him, and I will pray for him" And a sort of radiant pity and forbearance illuht an angel look on soiveness

I lay awake for so to follow out the track of thought I had entered upon in my conversation with Zara With such electricity as Heliobas practised, once ad that hu person could deny, all things were possible Even a knowledge of superhu in the universe that WAS superhunorant to refuse to contemplate such a probability At one tie could flash in a moment of time from one side of the Atlantic to the other by means of a cable laid under the sea; now that it is an established fact, the world has grown accusto human electricity to exist, why should not a communication be established, like a sort of spiritual Atlantic cable, between s of other spheres and other solar systems? The more I reflected on the subject thethat other world, to which I was soon to be lifted Then in a sort of half-doze, I fancied I saw an interht composed of circles that were all looped one in another, which seemed to sweep round the realms of space and to tie up the sun, moon, and stars like flowers in a ribbon of fire After much anxious and humble research, I found reat chain I do not knohether I was grateful or afraid at this discovery, for sleep put an end todreams