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M. + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Strange Little Girl + A Story for Children + +Author: V. M. + +Commentator: Katherine Tingley + +Illustrator: N. Roth + +Release Date: December 1, 2007 [EBook #23671] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STRANGE LITTLE GIRL *** + + + + +Produced by David Edwards, Markus Brenner and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from scans of public domain material +produced by Microsoft for their Live Search Books site.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<p class="nocaption figcenter"> +<a href="images/cover.jpg"><img src="images/cover_th.jpg" alt="The Strange Little Girl" title="The Strange Little Girl" /></a></p> + + +<div style="position: relative; width: 400px; height: 500px; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto"> +<div class="figleft" style="width: 139px;"> +<a href="images/illu_14.jpg"><img src="images/title_flowers.jpg" alt="lotus-flowers" title="lotus-flowers" /></a> +</div> + + +<p class="title">The Strange<br /> +Little Girl</p> + +<p class="figornament"> +<img src="images/title_ornament_l.jpg" alt="" title="" /></p> + +<p class="subtitle">A Story for<br /> +Children</p> + +<p class="author">By V. M.</p> + +<p class="figornament"> +<img src="images/title_ornament_m.jpg" alt="" title="" /></p> + + + +<p class="illustrator">Illustrations by N. Roth</p> + +<p class="figornament"> +<img src="images/title_ornament_s.jpg" alt="" title="" /></p> + + +<p class="publisher"><i>The Aryan Theosophical Press<br /> +Point Loma, California</i> +</p> +</div> + +<p class="copyright"><span class="smcap">Copyright 1911, by Katherine Tingley</span></p> + + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/logo.jpg"><img src="images/logo_th.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a></p> + + +<p class="printerlogo"> +<span class="smcap">The Aryan Theosophical Press</span><br /> +Point Loma, California<br /> +</p> + + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/frontispiece.jpg"><img src="images/frontispiece_th.jpg" alt="IN THE GARDEN OF DELIGHT" title="IN THE GARDEN OF DELIGHT" /></a></p> +<p class="caption">IN THE GARDEN OF DELIGHT</p> + + + + +<div class="textbody"> +<h1><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[1]</a></span>The Strange Little Girl</h1> + + + + +<h2><a name="I" id="I"></a>I</h2> + + +<div class="initial" style="clear: both"> +<img src="images/dropcap_01.jpg" alt="O" title="O" /></div> +<p class="dropcapsection"><span class="firstwords"> +<span style="display: none;">O</span>nce</span> upon a time there was a +beautiful palace where the king’s +children lived as happily as they +alone can live. They never wanted +anything and they never knew +that there could be others who were not as +happy as they. Sometimes, it is true, they +would hear a story which would make them +almost think that perhaps there was a world +beyond, which they did not know, outside +the palace of the king and its gardens, but +something would seem to say that after all +it was only a fairy story, and they would +forget that it meant anything that might +really be true.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[2]</a></span>One of the little princesses seemed to +think more of these stories of a world beyond +the palace garden than the others, and +she would sometimes find herself gazing at +the sun, and wondering if the great world +lay beyond the purple forests where the +golden-edged clouds shone like dark mountains +in the distance. And the name of this +princess was Eline.</p> + +<p>More and more as she thought of these +things she felt sure that there must be a +world where things were very different +from the happy life in the palace garden; +and in the stories which the children heard +she thought of many things, which, with the +others, she used to pass by without notice. +Once they used to hear of no sorrow, no +pain, but only joy and peace. Now, in thinking, +she sometimes noticed that there were +things which were not spoken; that there +were things passed by in silence; that there +were things which travelers passing through +the palace kept back, as though they knew<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span> +of much which the children must not know, +and yet which they would have told had +they dared.</p> + +<p>Questions Eline asked, and the answers +seldom satisfied her, for they never seemed +to tell her everything. Every time one of +the travelers left the palace to return on his +journey there seemed to be a look of appeal +in his eyes, an appeal which only Eline +seemed to see, and which made her wish to +follow them for the very love that shone in +the kind faces of these strangers—strangers +who told the children stories of things +they loved—of wonderful fairy worlds +where they were not as in the palace; of +worlds where Eline seemed to have traveled +many times, long, long ago.</p> + +<p>One day she asked her father, the king:</p> + +<p>“Shall I never go out of the palace, never +leave the garden of delight and see the world +that lies beyond the cloud-mountains, beyond +the sunset and the whispering forests?”</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span>And the king looked intently at Eline.</p> + +<p>“These are strange fancies,” he said. +“Are you not happy here in the garden?”</p> + +<p>“Yes, I am happy,” she said, “happier +than I can tell. But you have not answered +me. Is there not a world beyond? Shall I +ever see it?”</p> + +<p>“Some traveler must have been telling +you forbidden tales,” said the king. “These +things I have said may not be spoken in my +garden.”</p> + +<p>“No traveler has told me,” said Eline. +“I have seen them looking as though they +would tell me, but could not, of things beyond +the garden, beyond the palace. I have +asked them, and they have told me nothing. +Yet I have felt that I long to go with them. +I have felt that I remember strange places, +strange sights, things I know not here, when +they speak. Sometimes, even, it seems that +I hear a voice like my own repeating a +promise—a promise unfulfilled that must<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span> +be kept. ‘I will return! I will! I will!’ +it says. And I hear voices calling in the +wind, in the rustling of the leaves, and in +the silence of the day, ‘Come back! Come +back!’ And the birds say, ‘Come!’ The +pines whisper to me strange things, and the +laughing water in the brooks says ‘Come!’ +What does it mean?”</p> + +<p>“I cannot tell you here,” said the king. +“But why do you wish to leave the palace? +You are yet young and there are many, +many years of happiness before you. You +may stay in the palace where all things are +good, and put these things out of mind. +There is another world, but not for you—yet!”</p> + +<p>Eline was troubled, or would have been +had such a thing been possible in the palace +of the king.</p> + +<p>“May I ever see that land? May I ever +leave the palace?”</p> + +<p>“The children of the king are free to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span> +come and go,” he said. “I may not keep +them if they will not stay; for I know that +they will come again.”</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="II" id="II"></a>II</h2> + + +<p>Again a traveler came to the palace. He +brought with him a harp of seven strings, +on which he played to the children. He +sang to them for a while and then for a +space was silent. Eline listened to the +strange, beautiful music. And to her it +seemed that there was speech in the harp—that +it spoke. The other children seemed +to listen to the music, but to them it did not +seem to speak. To Eline there were echoes +of wonderful things the palace knew not; +things that the language of the king could +not tell. The harp spoke in a way that the +Princess Eline knew and understood, although +there were no words in its tones. +<!-- <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span> --> +<!-- <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span> --> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span>There were sad and sorrowful notes that +told of sorrows the palace never knew. +There were strains of music that sounded +harsh to the listening ear, though to the +careless they told of happiness alone. And +as she listened, Eline dreamed. Clearer and +more clear she felt that the harp told of a +world of men where sorrow and sadness and +strife were not unknown; where joy should +be, and was not; where the people groped +their way through darkness and thought it +light. “Return! Return!” called the harp.</p> + + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/illu_08.jpg"><img src="images/illu_08_th.jpg" alt="“I WILL RETURN”" title="“I WILL RETURN”" /></a></p> +<p class="caption">“I WILL RETURN”</p> + + +<p>And a mighty resolve came to Eline. “I +will return! I will! I will!”</p> + +<p>She remembered the king’s saying: “The +children of the king are free to come and +go,” he had said. “I may not keep them +if they will not stay,” he had told her.</p> + +<p>She loved him much; but the call came +clear, and she dared not seek him to say +farewell, lest she should be persuaded to +remain.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span>She bowed her head and to the harper +spoke:</p> + +<p>“I will go,” she said. “I will return +with you.”</p> + +<p>Then the harp sent forth such a melody +of joyous music that it echoed thrilling +through the hot discordant notes of the +world beyond the sunset; and for a moment +a chord of harmony ran through the life +of men:</p> + +<p>“Joy unto you, men of the underworld! +Joy unto you, children of sorrow! Joy unto +you, sons of forgetfulness! Joy unto all +beings!”</p> + +<p>They passed out of the garden together, +the musician and the soul.</p> + + +<!-- <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span></p> --> +<p class="figcenter"><!-- <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span> --> +<a href="images/illu_12.jpg"><img src="images/illu_12_th.jpg" alt="THROUGH PINE FOREST" title="THROUGH PINE FOREST" /></a></p> +<p class="caption">THROUGH PINE FOREST</p> + + + + +<h2><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span><a name="III" id="III"></a>III</h2> + + +<p>Westward they traveled, westward, ever +westward. The way was dark and sometimes +dreary, and Eline felt like one awakened +from a beautiful dream before it was +ended.</p> + +<p>Through the pine forests, over mountains, +in deep valleys, and by mighty streams they +traveled. Ever they had the harp to cheer +the way, to urge their footsteps onward. +For the path was untrodden where they +went.</p> + +<p>“There is a path,” the harper said, “a +pleasant path and broad, but the journey is +long and we must hasten on our way. To +the setting sun, to the gleaming sea, we +must go; nor may we seek a beaten track +lest we be too late.”</p> + +<p>A river there was in whose waters were +reflected pictures of all that surrounded +them—such crystal clear reflections that +sometimes it seemed as if they looked at<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span> +real things in the water +mirrored in the things +around them.</p> + +<span class="figleft"> +<a href="images/illu_14.jpg"><img src="images/illu_14_th.jpg" alt="lotus-flowers" title="lotus-flowers" /></a> +</span> + +<p>And on the waters +grew beautiful lotus-flowers, +lilies with cup-shaped +leaves. In the +blue and white petals +of the lotus also there +seemed to be reflections, +so clear were +they. The musician +plucked one of the cup-like +lily-pads and filled +it with the water for +Eline.</p> + +<p>The still surface of +the water shone like +silver in its green cup +as Eline held it. Then +the musician played. +Soft and low and sweet +were the notes of that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span> +wonderful harp. Scarcely they rippled the +surface of the water, and yet they vibrated, +trembled, spread, until picture after picture +came to the surface of the water in colors +of every hue.</p> + +<p>Scarcely may it be told what Eline saw in +the magic cup in the water of remembrance. +She seemed to see herself—and yet another—in +picture after picture. Now she saw +herself as part of a golden sea of selves +which made but one self, so lifelike were +they, so glorious was their unity. Then in +life after life Eline seemed to see her other +selves living and loving and working, sleeping +and suffering and struggling. She saw +that on a day she had made her great resolve +to help the world. “I will return! I will! +I will!”</p> + +<p>And now she knew what things they were +she had seemed to remember in the king’s +garden of delight. Joyously, eagerly, willingly, +she saw that she had determined to +return to earth in body after body, to help<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span> +the men of sorrow who struggled and slumbered +and suffered. She saw that she had +before so done; that her work remained +unfinished, to be begun again where she had +laid it down. There was suffering shown +to her in the cup; there were sorrow and +grief and pain. But she saw that it must +all be, and was content. For at other times +she had desired just such things that she +might know how others felt them, that she +might help them the more with understanding. +Happiness she had taken to give to +others, and she must repay the debt. She +saw that all things were just, and when the +musician said in a low voice:</p> + +<p>“Will you yet proceed?”</p> + +<p>“I will!” she said.</p> + +<p>“Then drink the cup,” he said, “Drink!”</p> + +<p>She drained the green cup of the lotus +leaf until scarcely a drop remained, and with +that draught she forgot all things that had +been—the garden, the king, the journey +<!-- <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span> --> +<!-- <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span> --> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span>and the vision, and the master harper—all +were forgotten. Only there remained a dim +remembrance as of a dream at dawn forgotten.</p> + + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/illu_18.jpg"><img src="images/illu_18_th.jpg" alt="DOMES AND SPIRES" title="DOMES AND SPIRES" /></a></p> +<p class="caption">DOMES AND SPIRES</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="IV" id="IV"></a>IV</h2> + + +<p>A little ship stood by the shore of the +great sea; into this Eline entered. There +were other ships, some better, some worse. +But somehow she knew that just this, and +not another, was the ship she wanted, and +none questioned her when she entered.</p> + +<p>So they sailed away towards the setting +sun.</p> + +<p>Long was the voyage and lonely; for the +seas ran high and all was dark below in the +heart of the ship. Nine months they sailed +on the ocean, until in the time appointed +land appeared. Strange dwellings were +there, domes and spires and crowded cities. +With wide, wondering eyes Eline watched<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span> +them as the ship passed them by in strange +procession; for the men of that land were +like none she knew; none of these things +could she remember. For she had forgotten +even her name at the river of forgetfulness, +where remembrances are left in the mirror +of the waters until time and their creator +bring them back to life.</p> + +<p>It seemed as though one of wise and +kindly countenance held her as a little child +in his arms and whispered softly, “Remember! +I will return! I will! I will!” A +light of happy recollection came to her and +she smiled in reply. He had spoken in her +own language as the harp had spoken, and +strangely, strangely she seemed to see in +him the harper whose music had told her +of the sorrowful land beyond the sunset. +For this moment, she remembered, and then +the thought departed.</p> + +<p>At first the air seemed heavy and oppressive +to the wanderer; but by degrees she +grew accustomed to it and even, in time, +<!-- <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span> --> +<!-- <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span> --> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span>scarcely felt it. Yet ever and again a dim +remembrance of brighter, purer skies came +to her. She spoke of this more than once; +but others only laughed and said: “The +child is dreaming!”</p> + + +<p class="nocaption figcenter"> +<a href="images/illu_22.jpg"><img src="images/illu_22_th.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a></p> + + +<p>Because she was no longer dressed in +shining garments, they did not know her +for the princess she really was. Indeed, +she was no way different from those around +her but that at heart she was still the daughter +of the king. They could not see her +heart—this they could not know. And +seeing that they did not understand, she +said no more of the thoughts that came to +her. They called it dreaming; but Eline +thought that if this were so, a dream were +better than a waking life—unless—</p> + +<p>Could these be thoughts that came to her +of the world beyond the water, the reflection +of the real life? She knew not.</p> + +<p>“We must teach this little dreamer what +is life!” they said. “She will not know<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span> +what life is if we leave her to her dreams.”</p> + +<p>They made her work and made her play: +work that never seemed to do anyone any +good, and play that seemed like work. She +nearly forgot that in what they called her +dreams she had ever known of another life.</p> + +<p>Sometimes she sang to herself, strange +songs that they said sounded sad and sorrowful, +yet of a sweetness all their own.</p> + +<p>“Where does she hear them?” people +asked.</p> + +<p>But Eline never told. For the truth was +that they came to her in moments when her +thoughts were far away, dreaming.</p> + +<p>“She sings like a bird in a cage that +knows of a brighter world outside,” said +one. But he was a poet, so they only smiled +as if they themselves would have made the +same remark if it had not been so fanciful.</p> + +<p>And though men thought her sad and +lonely, there was joy to her in the hum of +the bees and the song of the birds and the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span> +rustling of the leaves. The butterflies and +the flowers and the brooks were her friends.</p> + +<p>“What a strange child,” people said when +they heard her talking to these friends. +They did not know of the stories her friends +told her, stories which reminded her of a +wonderful garden of delight where men did +not ever stare and stare in gaping wonder +because a little child talked with the fairies +that live in all things beautiful, clothed in +robes of sunlight and rainbow hues.</p> + +<p>They would have taken her away from +these friends but for one old man, her +grandfather, who said:</p> + +<p>“The child will be better for the fresh +air. Let her live while she may.”</p> + +<p>So it was that she played and talked with +the flowers and sang to the brooks and listened +to the stories of the forest trees that +whispered among themselves. None dared +take her away.</p> + +<p>One day she had been for a long ramble<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span> +by a mighty river, and the sun had sunk +to the westward on its journey; but she +turned not to the place she called her home. +Tired and worn out with her play, she lay +on a rock and slept.</p> + +<p>In her sleep it seemed that a touch upon +her forehead awakened in her a vision of +things she once had known, but had now +almost forgotten. There was the king’s garden +and the palace, and the other wonderful +buildings, tall and stately—mighty buildings +which seemed to speak of mighty builders, +noble thoughts and great men’s deeds. +Some were even more stately, some more +humble, than the palace. But in all there +was a sense of grander, nobler life than the +life those knew who were with her now, +and who, laughing, called her a dreamer.</p> + +<p>And she heard a voice repeating, “I will +return! I will! I will!”</p> + +<p>Again she smiled as she recognized the +voice. A feeling of intense happiness and +<!-- <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span> --> +<!-- <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span> --> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span>content came to her and she—awoke. +More than ever it seemed as if that other +were the real life, and this a heavy dream.</p> + + +<p class="nocaption figcenter"> +<a href="images/illu_28.jpg"><img src="images/illu_28_th.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a></p> + + + + +<h2><a name="V" id="V"></a>V</h2> + + +<p>The twilight glow still lingered in the +west and the evening breeze called her to +thoughts of home.</p> + +<p>But she had learned wisdom, and when +they asked her where she had been, Eline +said she had fallen asleep in the sunshine +on a rock by the great river. Which was +true.</p> + +<p>Of her dream she said nothing to any +except to the old man who alone seemed to +understand her a little. He did not laugh, +but looked with thoughtful eyes intent, into +the distance, away to the starlit sky, and it +seemed to her that he also was trying to +remember a forgotten dream of life. And +seeing this she put her hand in his trustingly,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span> +and they two knew well each other’s +thoughts though never a word was spoken.</p> + +<p>It seemed to the old man that the child +was leading him along a familiar road to a +home forgotten—after many weary days +of wandering.</p> + +<p>“There are some things the heart can +say that words can never tell,” he said to +himself when she was gone. “I think we +understand one another.”</p> + +<p>As time passed by Eline came to know +more and more of that other life and she +longed to tell these things to the people who +struggled and surged in hot strife to win +the things of the world they knew, never +thinking that there was a happier, purer, +brighter world. Some thought they knew +of such a one; but all except a few made +it seem like the one in which they lived—only +they made it a little more bright by +day, a little more dark by night, and with +a little more success in the strife for the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span> +things that change and pass away. These +she would tell of the nobler life she knew, +but they listened not at all.</p> + +<p>In due time Eline was sent to school to +learn. But her teachers found little that +she did not quickly understand. For one +thing she remembered now plainly, how in +the garden of delight everything that was +done was well done—were it the telling +of a story or the singing of a song or the +watering of the flowers that grew in that +fair land. All was done with a wonderful +thoroughness, and Eline now felt that she +must do all things in that way or leave them +quite alone. But often they would teach +Eline things about which she seemed to care +little and to understand as one in a dream. +Then they would call her attention to the +work only to find that she was learning to +understand a great deal more than they +themselves could tell. It was so with numbers. +When they asked her what the numbers +were by name, she not only named<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span> +them all but told them why they were so +named and what each meant. And so with +music. With every chord she seemed to see +harmonies of color, like beautiful pictures +too glorious to paint. And when she said +that life itself to her was music, Eline’s +teachers did not understand.</p> + +<p>One said: “She has learned these things +before in another life.”</p> + +<p>Another declared: “She sees the heart +of things where we see only the outer covering. +She sees the soul, we the body.”</p> + +<p>Perhaps they both were right.</p> + +<p>But many gave other reasons for these +things and all of them were gravely discussed. +But curiously enough, the two who +gave the reasons I have told, were laughed +at and told that such things could not be. +So they said little about their thoughts because, +like all those who are sure that they +know the truth, they could afford to wait +until their words were proved to be right.</p> + + + + +<h2><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span><a name="VI" id="VI"></a>VI</h2> + + +<p>At first Eline longed to tell the world of +better things. She would gladly have told +the world of the glorious masonry of those +noble cities which she saw in her visions—cities +where men and women moved like +gods; where sorrow and want and selfishness +seemed to be unknown. She longed to +tell them of the harmonies which came to +her of music which might stir a dead world +to life, thrilling all nature into blossoms and +fruits in abundance, as the music of a waterfall +seems to send life into the flowers which +grow beside. She would have told them of +the colors with which nature loves to paint +the sky, the mountains and valleys, sea and +land, when all is ready for the master’s +work. For nature paints wherever the canvas +is prepared to receive the picture, and +she asks no price for her work. Eline knew +of times in the past—times that will come +again—when man did not ever strive to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span> +be rich regardless of his poorer brothers, +but each worked as he was able, all working +for the whole world’s good. And she +would have told them how in those times +man did not earn his living by toil unending, +by ceaseless pain and sorrow, but that +nature helped him as he helped her, and the +earth brought out her stores of rich fruits +for the welfare of her upgrown sons, well +knowing that they in turn with loving service +would seek to make nobler and better +that which nature gave to them in charge, +birds and beasts, flowers and trees, plants +and stones and all that lives—which is +everything.</p> + +<p>Eline saw how the desire to possess more +than enough, for the selfish pleasure of saying, +“It is mine!”—how the growth of +selfishness in the world; the love of killing +nature’s younger sons for food and pleasure +increased; how the love of ease and forgetfulness +of others and of duty to mother +nature—how all these things had chilled<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span> +the warmth of the one great life that is in +all things, and crippled the mother’s efforts +to help her wayward sons.</p> + +<p>Others had told these things; others had +striven to show the glorious light of life +that shines behind the cold mist of sin and +sorrow which has been cast like a veil over +the earth; but all had been rejected. Some +were ill-received; some were stoned; some +were killed.</p> + +<p>“How can I raise this humanity which +like a great orphan has cut itself off from +its mother and now lies ignorant of the +happiness that awaits its coming?” thought +Eline. “I have returned to tell them of +the way, and they will not hear. Others +have returned as far as they might and +have been rejected. Others still have boldly +plunged deeper yet in the hot sea of human +life and have been lost in its poisonous +fumes. Even so, I will again return, yet +lower, if by chance there be a few who will +not reject my message.”</p> + + + + +<h2><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a></span><a name="VII" id="VII"></a>VII</h2> + + +<p>So Eline hid in her heart the things she +knew and the things she would have told, +as she had hidden in her soul at the river +of forgetfulness the memory of the king’s +garden of delight. And she took her way +into the world with messages of love and +of hope, such simple messages as the children +understood, better sometimes than their +elders. She told the children many beautiful +fairy stories and they listened eagerly. +They did not know that these were the +stories which she had told to the learned +ones of the earth and which were really +true, though they had not believed.</p> + +<p>The children listened, and they said: “It +is beautiful. Some day we will seek out +such a beautiful world as that of which the +stories tell.”</p> + + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/illu_37.jpg"><img src="images/illu_37_th.jpg" alt="SHE TOLD THE CHILDREN STORIES" title="SHE TOLD THE CHILDREN STORIES" /></a></p> +<p class="caption">SHE TOLD THE CHILDREN STORIES</p> + + +<p>There were houses, too, which they built—little +toy houses with toy bricks. But +Eline showed them how to shape the bricks +<!-- <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</a></span> --> +<!-- <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[38]</a></span> --> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[39]</a></span>and how to make each brick fit in its proper +place so that never a one should lose its +worth. And Eline showed the children how +that behind the building of beautiful mansions +there was the beautiful thought that +made the masonry so noble a work, though +it were only toy masonry. And the children +understood.</p> + +<p>In their games they had done each his +best and they did well. But Eline showed +them games in which they all acted together, +even the little ones helping and sharing. It +was wonderful to them that they had not +thought of this before, because now they +found that they could do more than ever +they had done when each worked alone and +for himself.</p> + +<p>Near the city where they dwelt was a +vast plain full of great boulders, which they +could have made into a great park and a +beautiful garden; but the people of the city +cared not for such things and would not +help them. By themselves they knew not<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[40]</a></span> +how to move the rocks. So it remained a +waste of wild growth, except in those places +where the children had moved one by one, +and with great difficulty, the smaller stones.</p> + +<span class="figright"> +<a href="images/illu_41.jpg"><img src="images/illu_41_th.jpg" alt="little flowers" title="little flowers" /></a> +</span> + +<p>Now Eline bid them take a strong rope. +“For,” said she, “we will clear that plain, +and it shall be for a dwelling and a garden +for all.” She was thinking of the king’s +garden.</p> + +<p>The children looked at her in astonishment +as though they wondered if she meant +the thing she said.</p> + +<p>“We have no rope,” they said, “and none +will give us any.”</p> + +<p>“There is your rope,” said Eline, pointing +out the overgrown plain, where, amid +the rocks in the great patches from which +they had slowly and painfully drawn the +smaller stones, grew masses of pale blue +flowers, beautiful, delicate little blossoms, +like wind-flowers.</p> + +<p>Again the children looked at her, questioningly;<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[41]</a></span> +not as the people +at first had done, but +trustingly, though they +knew not what she would +have them do, but sought +to learn her wishes.</p> + +<p>So at her bidding they +gathered all the ripened +stalks of the little flowers +and laid them out in the +sun as she directed.</p> + +<p>Almost it seemed a +pity to destroy the plants. +One little worker asked +Eline of this matter for +he loved the flowers and +was sorry to see them +gathered and dried.</p> + +<p>“Does it not hurt the +flowers to pluck them?” +he asked. “Some say +that you can talk with<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[42]</a></span> +them as with all living things, and you can +tell if the flowers do not suffer in the gathering, +although they are old and ripe.”</p> + +<p>His was a loving heart and Eline saw +that he asked this out of no mere curiosity. +Gently she touched his forehead with her +finger.</p> + +<p>“Look!” she said. “Look and listen, for +I have opened the seeing eye to you.”</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="VIII" id="VIII"></a>VIII</h2> + + +<p>And the boy looked around in wonderment, +amazed, and saw that the whole great +plain was full of teeming life which he had +not before seen. Fairies and elves peeped +from every flower, gnomes and earthmen +worked and played and danced among the +boulders. And where before was silence +but for the rustling of the leaves in the +breeze, there rose a murmur of many voices, +like the humming of bees in the sunshine.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</a></span> +The boy listened and at once he knew what +the flowers were whispering.</p> + +<p>“There is a saying that the flax-people +are being used for a mighty work,” said +one little blue fairy to another.</p> + +<p>“I heard a bee spreading the news,” said +another. “All the flax-people are asked to +give their dresses to help in clearing the +plain for a palace and a garden where kings +may dwell—not kings of earth and of little +cities, but kings of wisdom whom nature +loves to obey, and we among her children.”</p> + +<p>“Body after body have I grown,” said +the other. “I have struggled and striven +to grow useful in this glorious brotherhood +of nature, and my only success seems to +be that I have a pretty head. It is good +to be beautiful, perhaps, but I have always +thought that I would sacrifice my beauty +for a chance of sharing in noble deeds.”</p> + +<p>A butterfly that had stopped to listen +now spoke to her:</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[44]</a></span>“You have waited and now you will have +your reward. For surely your body will be +taken to help in the work that is going forward. +The flax-people have indeed lived to +good purpose.”</p> + +<p>“They certainly do not seem afraid to +die,” said the boy to himself.</p> + +<p>And as if in answer to his whispered +thought the little flax-fairy said:</p> + +<p>“Of course we are not afraid! I have +been told that there are giants of men who +really think that when they leave their worn-out +stalks—bodies they call them—behind, +they live no more, or at least are not sure +what becomes of themselves. But it cannot +be true—it must be a fairy story!” +laughed the little elf. “They must know, +as we know, that all things sleep awhile and +then take new bodies like dresses woven +while they worked in their last awaking +which men call life. And then one day we +know that we shall have woven dresses so<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</a></span> +fine that we shall be free to leave them as +the butterfly leaves his dull-hued robes and +spreads his bright wings for flight into the +grand unknown which we all long to know.”</p> + +<p>“But <i>how</i> do you know that these things +are so?” asked the boy.</p> + +<p>“How do I know that I am alive?” answered +the flax-fairy in a murmur. Fainter +grew the voices and the vision faded +from the boy’s sight.</p> + +<p>He knew not how long it was he stayed +there, but after awhile he awoke with a +start to find that Eline was no longer with +him, and that he had slept among the flax +in the sunshine.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="IX" id="IX"></a>IX</h2> + + +<p>“It must have been a dream!” he said. +But he did not believe it was a dream—for +all his words. And really the flowers +seemed to him to bear a new life after that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[46]</a></span> +wonderful vision which came to him when +Eline gave him for an hour the seeing eye.</p> + +<p>Working with the others joyfully and +happily without a moment’s pause or one +thought of failure, they saw quickly growing +an immense heap of beautiful fine white +thread. The children had helped the flax to +grow and now in turn it aided them to clear +more ground.</p> + +<p>For in no long time all was finished and +before them they had a mighty rope growing +greater every day under their Leader’s +eye.</p> + +<p>One strange thing there was about the +rope. For there were golden threads interwoven +which the children did not remember +having seen among the flax. And they +wondered.</p> + +<p>But Eline only said “It is golden flax.”</p> + +<p>Whatever it was, it shone brightly in +the sun until it looked like a ray of real sunlight +in the rope.</p> + + +<p class="figcenter"><!-- <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[47]</a></span> --> +<a href="images/illu_47.jpg"><img src="images/illu_47_th.jpg" alt="MAKING ROPE" title="MAKING ROPE" /></a></p> +<p class="caption">MAKING ROPE</p> + + +<!-- <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[48]</a></span></p> --> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[49]</a></span>One little child said:</p> + +<p>“It looks like a brother to the sun!”</p> + +<p>“Perhaps it is,” said Eline, and smiled.</p> + +<p>The work grew apace. And the play grew +apace, because the children scarcely knew +which was work and which was play. They +seemed to have found something better than +both. Stone after stone, rock after rock, +was encircled with the cord and triumphantly +drawn by that merry army of children to +the edge of the plain. Clearer and clearer +grew the space. Where before the stones +had been, little pools of water formed, while +round them grew masses of beautiful flowers, +among which was a new crop of the +little blue flax, stronger and better grown +than any that had been there before. Gradually +there grew up a great wall of rock +around the plain where the boulders were +drawn by the children, for each was taken +to its nearest boundary, as Eline told them +this would be the simplest way to clear the +plain.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</a></span>Some mighty rocks yet remained in the +center of the plain but the children had so +seen the wisdom of their Leader that they +doubted not that these too would be removed +without difficulty, although how this was to +be done they could not tell.</p> + +<p>And as the work was nearing an end they +did as their Leader bid them in perfect trust. +Actually they put their ropes around a rock +which some said was like a small mountain. +They pulled with a will, but the rock moved +not.</p> + +<p>Still they pulled willingly and with all +their might, for now they had grown strong +until they scarcely knew their own powers.</p> + +<p>From the great city, from the mountains, +and from the country round about, came +sightseers and inquirers. At first they only +laughed and talked, and helped not at all. +But among them came men of strange countenance, +strong men, wise in looks, men of +kingly bearing.</p> + + +<p class="figcenter"><!-- <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[51]</a></span> --> +<a href="images/illu_51.jpg"><img src="images/illu_51_th.jpg" alt="CLEARING THE PLAIN" title="CLEARING THE PLAIN" /></a></p> +<p class="caption">CLEARING THE PLAIN</p> + +<!-- <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</a></span></p> --> + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</a></span>These said: “It is not right that these +children should work for ever alone.”</p> + +<p>And they too, with strong grip of a +strange sort, laid hold of the golden ropes, +seeing which, the idlers too came and helped +until with a mighty song of joy the children +saw the great rock move, slowly at first, +then faster, faster, until with a run they +had placed it in a far corner of the great +plain, standing like a sentinel to the North.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="X" id="X"></a>X</h2> + + +<p>Another and yet others followed. East +and South and West the unhewn boulders +stood like guardians of the plain. A circle +of twelve yet remained in the center, like +giant pillars supporting the sky. But these +Eline said should stand, as also some smaller +ones which were placed across their tops +like great beams resting upon a doorway.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[54]</a></span> +How this was done I cannot say; but there +is a saying in the city that, in the night +before they were found placed high above +the giant circle, the sound of a great and +joyous song, a hymn of power, was heard +like the tones of a great bell shaking the +houses with its vibrations and putting men +in fear of the destruction of their city. But +at sunset the children had not returned from +the plain, so that they were not in the city +when this happened. And not until the sunrise +did the people flock to the doors and +windows for a glimpse of the joyous army +that marched in their streets. Led by the +men of kingly bearing the children marched, +singing a song of triumph, with such shining +glory in their faces that all the people +marveled.</p> + +<p>Tired they were, and slept; but when in +the late noontide the people asked them what +had happened, all seemed like the forgotten +glory of a dream. They could remember +little except that they were filled with the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</a></span> +joy of wonderful things which no tongue +could tell.</p> + +<p>The work had not taken one day, or two, +but many days. Months and even years had +passed since the children played together in +the sunshine. Strong and sturdy lads and +lasses were they now. A beautiful temple +had arisen within the giant circle, and all +around it was a garden of beauty like no +garden which they had seen.</p> + +<p>But when Eline looked amid the rare +flowers and found a little purple star with +heart of gold, she knew that it was a flower +from the king’s garden, and she was glad +that it could grow where all was rock before. +There were great purple pansies, too, +like thoughts from the palace in which Eline +had lived.</p> + +<p>Now it was that the children came to the +temple to learn of Eline, and she taught +them the wonderful truths which she knew; +to them she told the wonderful things that +have been and the more wonderful things<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[56]</a></span> +that may be, if men will only try to bring +them about.</p> + +<p>She taught them things so simple that +they often wondered why they had not already +known them without the telling. They +did not know that there was a good reason +why it should be so. Eline taught them, too, +how by all working together for the welfare +and progress of all, there is no task we may +not overcome.</p> + +<p>“We know it,” said the children, remembering +the waste of rocks in the plain where +now the garden stood and the temple.</p> + +<p>“Each by himself can do much, but all +working together can move the world,” she +said. “Now I will tell you a strange thing, +which is yet true. For we are not at all +separate from any other thing in the world, +but the same nature is in us as in them—in +the rocks and the flowers, in the forests +and streams, in city and mountain, in air +and fire and water, just as the rocks and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</a></span> +this temple are of the same stone, although +they differ in shape. And if we only will, +we can make all our rocks into beautiful, +glorious temples.</p> + +<p>“When the world of men has learned +this lesson the earth itself will become a +mighty temple, that the wise teachers of old, +whom men call gods, may come to us again +and live with us in peace for evermore.</p> + +<p>“And it shall be known that music is life, +for in music is harmony, and by harmony +all things live, each note in its own place, +doing its perfect work, be it great or small. +For this too is a brotherhood of harmony.”</p> + +<p>Because in those days the people listened +to the teachings from the temple and to the +great ones who came to dwell therein when +it was finished, and who taught the seekers +after truth, through their messenger Eline, +there were happiness and joy and peace in +all the land. Men became nobler as they +thought of nobler things than had hitherto +been their custom.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</a></span>Seeing the beauty of the temple and the +mighty work that comes of aiding nature, +working in unity and harmony, they also +built their houses to be like the temple. +Stone they used for brick, beautiful they +built them within and without, and they +labored to make their dwellings fit temples +for the gods. For it was said among them +that sometimes strangers would visit their +city, and seeking entrance, would dwell with +them awhile where they found a welcome. +And it was noticed that always they came +to such dwellings as those where the beauty +and harmony of the building showed beauty +and harmony within. And when they left +the house, always there seemed to remain a +memory of their presence as a ray of light +at sunset leaves a memory of joyous days +and a sense of hope for brighter days yet +to come.</p> + +<p>When this thing happened the neighbors +would gather together and it was said:</p> + +<p>“The Master has built the house.”</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</a></span>Then the great beam which rested on the +pillars of the doors was lifted and where it +had stood was built an arch of stone. And +last of all was dropped in place the keystone +which held the arch, and there was great +rejoicing, for the people said: “The house +is finished.” Some there were who would +have lifted the beam and built the arch, but +unless the Master had been in the house, +always some accident would occur and the +house be destroyed.</p> + +<p>In the center of the arch was placed a +great light which was ever kept burning, +for it was fed with oil of gold which never +burns away, but whose smoke ever turns to +oil again. Each light was like the greater +light which ever shone from the dome of +the temple, a light to lighten all around, +such light as it was said went out to the +world from the temple itself in the knowledge +of the laws of life and of all things +good and great and beautiful. Never was +the light to be put out, lest harm should<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</a></span> +come. Day and night it was held a sacred +duty to guard the light.</p> + +<p>When that light shone there was peace +and plenty in the land, for fellowship made +life joyful. Some called that glorious time +the Golden Age; some there are even now +among us who will to bring that golden age +again to earth as then, through brotherhood +and the joy of life, that misery shall not +always be among us, nor poverty, sorrow, +and pain.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="XI" id="XI"></a>XI</h2> + + +<p>But there came a day when messengers +from far off lands came over sea a great +journey to the temple. And to Eline they +told the despair and want and the madness +of unbrotherliness that men knew in the +countries whence they came, countries where +the light shone no longer. Of wars and of +<!-- <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[61]</a></span> --> +<!-- <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[62]</a></span> --> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[63]</a></span>famines they spoke, of poverty, oppression, +and crime.</p> + + +<p class="figcenter"> +<a href="images/illu_62.jpg"><img src="images/illu_62_th.jpg" alt="“GUARD WELL THE TEMPLE”" title="“GUARD WELL THE TEMPLE”" /></a></p> +<p class="caption">“GUARD WELL THE TEMPLE”</p> + + +<p>Eline’s great compassion could not be +silent to appeal. “From these things, I say +Humanity <small>SHALL</small> be saved!” said she. “I +have a duty here, but there are guardians in +the Temple, and the call comes loud to me +from the world beyond. I will go!”</p> + +<p>Those messengers heard with joy of the +success of their journey, for they had traveled +far and had overcome many trials and +difficulties by the way. And all the time +they had hoped in perfect faith that they +would return with some encouragement to +the country whence they came. And doubtless +it was because of the grand faith they +showed that Eline herself answered their +call.</p> + +<p>“Guard well the temple while I am away,” +Eline charged her people. “I must travel +far, but in no long time I will return!—I +will return! Be watchful, therefore, that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[64]</a></span> +the light be burning, that the oil fade not. +None can tell the time of the coming, whether +it be by night or day. With your lives +must you guard the light!”</p> + +<p>She spoke somewhat sadly as it seemed +to them, and they supposed she thought of +the great misery and need of those she went +to succor in their distress.</p> + +<p>And they answered the more eagerly:</p> + +<p>“We will! We will!”</p> + +<p>For the first time since it had been built +the temple was left without its head—a +sacred trust indeed.</p> + +<p>They thought they knew themselves; they +thought they knew the evil in their natures, +and the good, did those temple watchers.</p> + +<p>And in their surety of knowing they grew +careless, so that in no long time they lost +their caution. Some there were who were +faithless, and these began to tell them of +their great success; how they had built the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[65]</a></span> +temple; how their industry and labor had +succeeded; how well they had learned to +know themselves. Gently they suggested +these things, gently these sayings took root, +almost unperceived.</p> + +<p>“Our temple which we have built is very +mighty. It can never fall,” they said.</p> + +<p>Some few there were who would have +spoken for Eline, but they were timid and +afraid of those who talked so boastfully. +Wherefore they were silent. It is true that +one or two attempted to recall the noble +deeds of the absent one, and to point out +that she had really built the temple; they +had supplied only the labor; yet the fruits +of it were theirs and the world’s.</p> + +<p>“True,” said the wicked and faithless +ones, “she had a great mind for building; +but she made mistakes. She herself said so. +We have learned by those mistakes and we +know. She would have made the temple +teachings too common altogether. Why, she<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[66]</a></span> +actually began to turn into a teacher of virtues +of which the world is weary, instead of +building as at first. She had taught all she +knew, but we can teach greater things, and +better things; we can teach the world twenty +different styles of building in metals, wood, +stone, and marble; of ornaments and decorations +enough to last for a century. Thus +we honor her; thus we carry on her work +and make it grow—although she made mistakes.”</p> + +<p>“Indeed she did make mistakes,” said +one, “and the greatest mistake of all was +when she chose such faithless craftsmen for +the temple work. Shame on you!”</p> + +<p>“O faithful one!” said they. “Such faith +deserves a great reward. To you we will +entrust the duty of finding her. We will +give you all you need for the voyage—a +ship and provisions enough for a year!”</p> + + +<!-- <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[67]</a></span></p> --> + +<p class="figcenter"><!-- <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[68]</a></span> --> +<a href="images/illu_68.jpg"><img src="images/illu_68_th.jpg" alt="ADRIFT ON THE SEA" title="ADRIFT ON THE SEA" /></a></p> +<p class="caption">ADRIFT ON THE SEA</p> + + + + +<h2><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[69]</a></span><a name="XII" id="XII"></a>XII</h2> + + +<p>So those treacherous ones cast adrift on +the ocean the one who remained faithful. +And those others who would have spoken +out for their absent Teacher were silenced +against their own better natures. For those +wicked ones had been great among them, +and they were afraid.</p> + +<p>It was thought that in no long time the +winds and the waves would destroy the little +ship with its lonely voyager; yet with stout +heart, knowing that he might not return +alone, he held on fearless and determined. +Sometimes it seems that those who so follow +the voice of their inner wisdom in dauntless +courage are helped by nature, as though she +ever loves such brave hearts. I have heard +the story told how the great Columbus who +found a new world was beset by his followers +to return. How nature sent him messages +that he was nearing land—birds and +driftwood, branches of trees and floating<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[70]</a></span> +weed. He read the message with the eyes +of one who loves all nature well, and promised +sight of land to his men in three days, +a promise that was fulfilled.</p> + +<p>So it was that the little ship with the one +who remained faithful did a greater work +than ever those desired who sent it.</p> + +<p>Slowly, slowly, in the Temple, it came +about that the guardians forgot their duty, +forgot that they were there to guard the +temple in sacred trust for humanity; and +as the wicked ones among them wished, they +busied themselves about many things; but +not the one thing needful, the welfare and +the progress of mankind.</p> + +<p>How can the tale be told? A tale that is +new, yet old—old beyond count of years.</p> + +<p>For the enemies of the world, with whom +those wicked ones were leagued, came suddenly +by night, when the sacred lamp which +sent rays of hope over the great ocean was +allowed to flicker and to go out. And those<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[71]</a></span> +enemies destroyed the temple so that scarcely +one stone remained upon another. And +with it were destroyed those weak ones who +failed in their trust. All perished and with +them perished for a time the Light of the +World.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="XIII" id="XIII"></a>XIII</h2> + + +<p>It is said, how truly I know not, that +beneath the foundation pillars of the temple +was wisely prepared by Eline a vault, a vast +cave wherein were hidden the most sacred +records of the temple and the sacred secret +name which they had forgotten.</p> + +<p>To her over the sea came the knowledge +of the faithless guard, and in her agony she +called upon that sacred name if by chance +the temple should be saved.</p> + +<p>In days of old men knew that there is a +power in words, a power now forgotten. +Stories there are which tell of city walls falling<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</a></span> +at a trumpet blast, of cities rising as if +by magic at a word, of mighty doors thrown +open, of nature spellbound by a song, of +mighty names the jinns and genii of the +desert obey.</p> + +<p>And this sacred name was such a one as +these; for with its whispering a mighty +thrill passed out over the world and the +foundations of the sea were shaken. Vast +continents were destroyed, and men said the +world was at an end. Terrible was the +time, but Eline knew that it was better so; +for the remnant of the living might one day +restore the ancient glory of that land. But +had it been that the land remained, those +wicked ones would have lived and worked +to destroy the whole world so that not even +a remnant should be left in the bosom of the +waters to re-people the earth.</p> + +<p>After many days, tossed and beaten by +the waves, the little ship with the outcast +faithful one came drifting to the land where +Eline was.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</a></span>The winds and the sea conspired, as it +seemed, to urge the ship on her voyage, and +the dwellers of the ocean pointed the way, +watchful ever and untiring in their duty. +Small as it was, and ill-found, Eline chose +this ship for her return, and once again she +came to the place where the temple had +stood—she and that faithful one.</p> + +<p>She gazed on the ruins of that sacred +spot and sadly looked at the tops of the +mighty pillars just rising above the waves +of the sea which at times filled the arches +in between so that no man might pass beneath.</p> + +<p>Unseen guards there were, Eline knew, +guards who would keep that spot free for +future generations of a world to come. +Water-nymphs, sea-sprites, and earth-goblins, +undines, gnomes, and sylphs dwelt there +as sentinels of a sacred trust, and Eline was +content to go.</p> + +<p>“For,” she said, “the secret vault of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[74]</a></span> +sacred name yet stands intact until these +same faithless ones shall come again, purified +by many wanderings and trials, and +shall again guard that new-old temple with +me. That time they shall not fail!”</p> + +<p>And a ray of glorious hope shone in her +face as she left the ruined temple.</p> + +<p>“I will return!” she said. “I will return!”</p> + + +<p class="figcenter"><!-- <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</a></span> --> +<a href="images/illu_75.jpg"><img src="images/illu_75_th.jpg" alt="“I WILL RETURN”" title="“I WILL RETURN”" /></a></p> +<p class="caption">“I WILL RETURN”</p> +</div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Strange Little Girl, by V. 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