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He started as though awakened suddenly froravely

"Are you come to say 'Good-bye,' my child?" he asked, in a kind tone "Well, your mission here is ended!"

"Had I any rateful look, "save the very selfish one which was comprised in the natural desire to be restored to health?"

Heliobas surveyed me for a few moments in silence

"Were I to tell you," he said at last, "by what mystical authority and influence you were compelled to come here, by what a marvellously linked chain of circu before I saw you; hoasto whose companionship I could trust my sister at a time when the society of one of her own sex became absolutely necessary to her; how you were ht by which possibly I ht steer my course clear of the darkness which threatened er doubt the urgent need of your presence here

It is, however, enough to tell you that you have fulfilled all that was expected of you, even beyond my best hopes; and in return for your services, the worth of which you cannot realize, whatever guidance I can give you in the future for your physical and spiritual life, is yours I have done so for you, but notwith me, I ask you to honourto yourself and your surroundings--then I shall not be liable to errors of judgive"

"I proladly, for it see as a friend and counsellor such a man as this student of the loftiest sciences

"And now one thinga drawer in the table near which he sat "Here is a pencil for you to write your letters to me with It will last about ten years, and at the expiration of that time you can have another Write with it on any paper, and the -pencil; but as fast as they are written they disappear Trouble not about this circumstance--write all you have to say, and when you have finished your letter your closely covered pages shall seeer to look at the could be learned therefrom