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"You are so lately coorateswords Pray do not thinkI a but a man, and as We have prolonged our conversation further than I intended I assure you it is better for you to try to sleep, even though, as I know, you feel so wide awake Let ht; it will have the effect of co order"

He poured solass, and handed it to me I drank it at once, obediently, and with a sht, my Master!" I then said "You need have no fear of your own successful upward progress For if there were the slightest chance of your falling into fatal error, all those human souls you have benefited would labour and pray for your rescue; and I kno that prayers reach Heaven, so long as they are unselfish I, though I aratitude of ly for you, both here and hereafter"

He bent his head

"I thank you!" he said siht by prayer than this world drea God bless you, ht!"

And he opened the door of his study for htly on my head in a sort of unspoken benediction--then he closed his door, and I foundbrightly, and the fountain was gurgling melodiously to itself in a subduedI sped across the er step, and hurried up the stairs, intent on finding Zara to tell her how happy I felt, and how satisfied I ith my wonderful experience I reached the door of her bedroom--it was ajar I softly pushed it farther open, and looked in A small but exquisitely modelled statue of an "Eros" ornaht which glilass, and shed a tender lustre over the room; but especially upon the bed, ornamented with rich Oriental needlework, where Zara lay fast asleep How beautiful she looked! Almost as lovely as any one of the radiant spirits I had met in my aerial journey! Her rich dark hair was scattered loosely on the white pillows; her long silky lashes curled softly on the delicately tinted cheeks; her lips, tenderly red, like the colour on budding apple-blossolihtly undone, and half displayed and half disguised her neck and daintily rounded bosolittered brilliantly as it rose and sank with her regular and quiet breathing One fair hand lay outside the coverlet, and the reflection fro which adorned it,star