| 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 Registered Letter by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: "I must examine the dead man's personal effects, his baggage, his
papers; there may be something there. His queer letter to Graumann
- his desire that the latter's visit should be kept secret - a visit
which apparently had no cause at all, except to get Graumann to the
house, to get him to the house in a way that he should be seen
coming, but should not be seen going away. What does this mean?
"Graumann was the only person against whom Siders had an active
cause of quarrel for the moment. There was one other man whom he
hated, and this other man was the prosecuting attorney who would
conduct any case of murder that came up in the town of G-.
"Now John Siders is found murdered - is found killed, in his
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: paces. I could see nothing of the building. Returning and opening the door, at
once all the furniture and every detail of the interior were visible. It was
indeed startling, the sudden transition from void to light and form and color.
"What do you think of it, eh?" Lloyd asked, wringing my hand. "I slapped a
couple of coats of absolute black on the outside yesterday afternoon to see
how it worked. How's your head? you bumped it pretty solidly, I imagine."
"Never mind that," he interrupted my congratulations. "I've something better
for you to do."
While he talked he began to strip, and when he stood naked before me he thrust
a pot and brush into my hand and said, "Here, give me a coat of this."
It was an oily, shellac-like stuff, which spread quickly and easily over the
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