| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: all a lot of Greasers? How can you stand it? Damn you for a lot
of cowards! There's a limit, I tell you." Then his voice broke,
fell to a whisper. "Bill, dear old Bill, let me go. I'll kill
him! You know I'll kill him!"
"Gene, I know you'd kill him if you hed an even break," replied
Stillwell, soothingly. "But, Gene, why, you ain't even packin' a
gun! An' there's Pat lookin' nasty, with his hand nervous-like.
He seen you hed no gun. He'd jump at the chance to plug you now,
an' then holler about opposition to the law. Cool down, son;
it'll all come right."
Suddenly Madeline was transfixed by a terrible sound.
The Light of Western Stars |
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 Master of the World by Jules Verne: yet soaring across the sky. Had the inventor regained that mysterious
hiding-place of his, where no human being had ever set foot before
him?
And now, since he had not disembarrassed himself of my presence, was
his secret about to be revealed to me?
It seemed astonishing that I had slept so profoundly during most of
our voyage through the air. It puzzled me and I asked if this sleep
had not been caused by some drug, mixed with my last meal, the
captain of the "Terror" having wished thus to prevent me from knowing
the place where we landed. All that I can recall of the previous
night is the terrible impression made upon me by that moment when the
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