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WAS standing on the edge of the pool in Dick Restouer's room, gazing into its crystal depths. Startled, I glanced about. Then I remembered. In five minutes I had lived a lifetime, and I had found Eldres, the singer of the song—the woman I love. Even now she lived and was calling. The melody pulsed through my brain as never before, as clear as the tone of the great temple bell. The words I knew, and they were calling me to love. I turned, and there stood my friend.

"Zuren!" I cried.

"Ro-Moarin, old friend, you have seen, and it is good news you bring. I can tell it by your radiant face. To-day there are no black shadows. Once more you shall look, and," he smiled wearily, "I fear your interest in your mystic friend will lag."

Again I looked, and again I stood in a temple. Palm-thatched and earth-floored, it was filled with black men and women, naked save for grass girdles. With reverent attitude they faced a raised dais that was reached from the back by a grass-curtained door.

Again the priests chanted, and the words I could strangely understand. How startlingly like the chant of the children in the temple of Chrios!

Then the curtain slowly drew back, and through the door came a white girl of iridescent beauty. My heart