| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey: adrift vessels freighted with pebbly cargo. Then she had wandered
through the deep grass, her tiny feet scarcely turning a fragile
blade, and she had dreamed beside some old faded flowers. Thus
her steps led her into the broad lane. The little dimpled
imprints of her bare feet showed clean-cut in the dust they went
a little way down the lane; and then, at a point where they
stopped, the great tracks of a man led out from the shrubbery and
returned.
CHAPTER XX. LASSITER'S WAY
Footprints told the story of little Fay's abduction. In anguish
Jane Withersteen turned speechlessly to Lassiter, and, confirming
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: spiral staircase which it enclosed. It seemed to the party that
their motions were watched by some one concealed within this
turret; and they were confirmed in their belief when, through a
narrow loophole, a female hand was seen to wave a handkerchief,
as if by way of signal to them. Hobbie was almost out of his
senses with joy and eagerness.
"It was Grace's hand and arm," he said; "I can swear to it amang
a thousand. There is not the like of it on this side of the
Lowdens--We'll have her out, lads, if we should carry off the
Tower of Westburnflat stane by stane."
Earnscliff, though he doubted the possibility of recognising a
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