| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: too, am unfortunate. Ah, how I may soon need a friend! Will you
be my friend? I'm so alone. I'm terribly worried. I fear--I
fear--Oh, surely I'll need a friend soon--soon. Oh, I'm afraid
of what you'll find out sooner or later. I want to help you.
Let us save life if not honor. Must I stand alone--all alone?
Will you--will you be--" Her voice failed.
It seemed to Duane that she must have discovered what he had
begun to suspect--that her father and Lawson were not the
honest ranchers they pretended to be. Perhaps she knew more!
Her appeal to Duane shook him deeply. He wanted to help her
more than he had ever wanted anything. And with the meaning of
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: countenance of his friend, on which war, with its fatigues and
its wounds, had made a great alteration. But the uncertainty
lasted no longer than till the visitor had spoken, and the hearty
greeting which followed was such as can only be exchanged betwixt
those who have passed together the merry days of careless boyhood
or early youth.
"If I could have formed a wish, my dear Browne," said Lord
Woodville, "it would have been to have you here, of all men, upon
this occasion, which my friends are good enough to hold as a sort
of holiday. Do not think you have been unwatched during the
years you have been absent from us. I have traced you through
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