| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: remembered the solitary scarlet dahlia that stood between us and the
vast cold hills and held its colour when all was grey but that. The
hill world waited for the winter; down a far valley we could hear a
barking deer. Armour talked slowly, often hesitating for a word, of
the joy there was in beauty and the divinity in the man who saw it
with his own eyes. I have read notable pages that brought
conviction pale beside that which stole about the room from what he
said. The comment may seem fantastic, but it is a comment--I
caressed the dog. The servant clattered in with the plates, and at
a shout outside Armour left me. He came in radiant with Signor
Strobo, also radiant and carrying a violin, for hotel-keeping was
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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 Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: my business to see that you lose your position," she told him
calmly.
He snatched up the paper from the place where he had tossed it.
"Oh, well, if it's so darned important," he-conceded
ungraciously.
She stood quietly above him while he sent the telegram, even
though he contrived to make every moment of her stay an unvoiced
insult. Her wire was to the wife of the Governor of the State.
They had been close friends at school, and the latter had been
urging Helen to pay a visit to Cheyenne. The message she sent was
as follows:
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