| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: does he?"
"But why?" said the old man hesitatingly. He didn't understand
at all what was going on and he would much rather have remained.
"Because I came here for the special purpose of speaking to Mrs.
Bernauer," replied Muller calmly.
"Then you didn't come on account of the dog?"
"No, I didn't come on account of the dog."
"Then you - you lied to me?"
"Partly."
"And you're no veterinary?"
"No - I can help your dog, but I am not a veterinary and never have
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain: given fifty players present, thirty or thirty-five were likely
to be from the river. But I suspected that the ranks were thin now,
and the steamboatmen no longer an aristocracy. Why, in my time they
used to call the 'barkeep' Bill, or Joe, or Tom, and slap him on
the shoulder; I watched for that. But none of these people did it.
Manifestly a glory that once was had dissolved and vanished away in
these twenty-one years.
When I went up to my room, I found there the young man called Rogers, crying.
Rogers was not his name; neither was Jones, Brown, Dexter, Ferguson, Bascom,
nor Thompson; but he answered to either of these that a body found handy
in an emergency; or to any other name, in fact, if he perceived that you
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