| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: brought Alfred again to the protection of his young and
defenceless wife.
"The excitement has unnerved her," he said to the officer.
"Ain't you about done with my kids?" asked O'Flarety, marvelling
how any man with so little penetration as the officer, managed to
hold down a "good payin' job."
"What do you want for your proof anyway?" asked the mother. But
Alfred's faith in the validity of his new parenthood was not to
be so easily shaken.
"My wife is in no condition to be questioned," he declared.
"She's out of her head, and if you don't----"
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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 Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Paris of a lost race of white men that native legend described
as living in the heart of Africa. He wondered if he were not
looking upon the ruins of the civilization that this strange
people had wrought amid the savage surroundings of their
strange and savage home. Could it be possible that even now
a remnant of that lost race inhabited the ruined grandeur that
had once been their progenitor? Again he became conscious
of a stealthy movement within the great temple before him.
"Come!" he said, to his Waziri. "Let us have a look at what
lies behind those ruined walls."
His men were loath to follow him, but when they saw that
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