| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: road, that it came upon me suddenly, as I stood between the hill
and the stack, that I had undertaken a very difficult thing. The
hut behind the fern stack. But how far behind? how far from it?
The dark slope stretched above us, infinite, immeasurable
shrouded in night. To begin to climb it in search of a tiny hut,
possibly well hidden and hard to find in daylight, seemed an
endeavour as hopeless as to meet with the needle in the hay! And
now while I stood, chilled and doubting, almost despairing, the
steps of the troop in the road began to grow audible, began to
come nearer.
'Well, Monsieur le Capitaine?' the man beside me muttered--in
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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 Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: that we might work in harmony with them. The tempest
that had blown us off the coast of the continent had
blown them far to the south also. Shortly before dis-
covering us they had come into a great group of islands,
from between the largest two of which they were sail-
ing when they saw Hooja's fleet pursuing our dugout.
I asked Perry if he had any idea as to where we
were, or in what direction lay Hooja's island or the
continent. He replied by producing his map, on which
he had carefully marked the newly discovered islands
--there described as the Unfriendly Isles--which
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