| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: the Spaniards and their allies; that is, being in a state of
treason you have murdered them. Wingfield, your life is forfeit
and I condemn you to die by hanging as a traitor and an apostate.'
'Then there is nothing more to be said,' I answered quietly, though
a cold fear froze my blood.
'There is something,' answered Cortes. 'Though your crimes have
been so many, I am ready to give you your life and freedom upon a
condition. I am ready to do more, to find you a passage to Europe
on the first occasion, where you may perchance escape the echoes of
your infamy if God is good to you. The condition is this. We have
reason to believe that you are acquainted with the hiding place of
Montezuma's Daughter |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: Madame moistened her dry lips. "And... and now?" she asked him.
"It only remains to get away as soon as may be, if it is still
possible. Here in France there is no longer any room for us - at
least, not above ground. To-day has proved it." And then he looked
up at her, standing there beside him so pale and timid, and he
smiled. He patted the fine hand that rested upon the arm of his
chair. "My dear Therese, unless you carry charitableness to the
length of giving me to drink, you will see me perish of thirst
under your eyes before ever the canaille has a chance to finish me."
She started. "I should have thought of it!" she cried in
self-reproach, and she turned quickly. "Aline," she begged, "tell
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: try, Ska, the vulture, winging his way at a high altitude toward
his aerie, caught sight of a strange new bird of gigantic pro-
portions encroaching upon the preserves of his aerial domain.
Whether with intent to give battle to the interloper or merely
impelled by curiosity, Ska rose suddenly upward to meet the
plane. Doubtless he misjudged the speed of the newcomer,
but be that as it may, the tip of the propeller blade touched
him and simultaneously many things happened. The lifeless
body of Ska, torn and bleeding, dropped plummet-like toward
the ground; a bit of splintered spruce drove backward to strike
the pilot on the forehead; the plane shuddered and trembled
Tarzan the Untamed |
