Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-01-06

saw ntr ldSV. one uSeu 10 listen To me.
Were you in love with her, Paul ?"
Hettv did ask who she was
| Move were like brother and sister
1ou Will be TO me more-far more-than
she could be. Hetty, | understand now.
better than did, even my own teaching.
L understand the love of the Spirits for
each other. They are never divided and
they never weary Of each others company.
And yet the things that | have told you
seem to have been empty words"
"Ob no, Paul. They were beautiful
words, They have opened our hearts,
Paul. and filled our minds with great
thoughts. But, Paul" she come back to
the old question. you will not go without
me-"
my dear-if must "
Where will you gop When Will you
come back How shall l live without
you P''
II don't know, Hetty. Must | make
you suffer. am sorry that told you-"
mo, Paul would rather suffer any
thing than lose the memory of this day.
Tell me again. Let me have it once more
from your lips DO you love me, Paul Is
it true? Is it really true ?'
True ? Oh Hetty, if you only knew
how true it was-and is"
yet you will go?"
~ must my dear; il one must"
81 do not believe it. There is no must
Who is to make you go? Your Friends ?
| do not believe that there is anything
your Friends can make you do unless yon
choose to do it, Are you not free man
What is the good of your Hidden Knowl-
edge If you are not free ? Can you not
make your own yath for yourself? Then
what is the good of your Wisdom ?"
Sometimes, Hetty, | ask myself that
very same weston. Sometimes 1t seems
to me as if it were better to be an ordinary
man-just like the rest of mankind-with
no more power and no more knowledge"
Yet, before you loved me, Paul, |
| thought how wonderful it was Since you
have loved me l care nothing about it at
all. What matters for all the Ancient
Wisdom 1t could not make you love me
more. Then what do care for 1t If it is
to take You away from me I shall hate it
i shall hate it,"
| "Hetty!"
ooh Paul, when you told me that you
loved me you drew my heart out of myself
1t is all yours. | have no other hope, 10
other life. but for you. If you 90 away
what have left What shall do? Will
| your Friends make you do this cruel thing?
| am only girl and they are great phloso
piers who despise girls and love; but they
desert me, Paul, can they? If they can,
rise up and desert them. What is wisdom
compared with LoveY Oh, what can Wis
dom do for you compared with what Love
can do? My dear-my Paul" She
threw her arms round his neck.
stay. 1t is better to be happy than to be
wise. Everybody longs for Love. Oh, |
know why | have been so discontinued
and so unhappy. 1t is because had no one
to love me. Since your lips touched my
forehead | have been in happy heaven; l
have said to myself all day long and every
night. He loved me. Paul loves me he
loves me. Thank GOD Now nothing can
befall to make me unhappy any more. If
he dies he will love me still if he lives
shall only live, too, that he may be happy
But oh, Paul, | never thought never
thought-you could be taken away"
| "Hettyn'
you shall not go, Paul !" She held him
with all her strength of arm, and more
with the strength of her eyes. II cannot
go, though they drag you through the air.
You shall not 90 without me-"
| "Hetty, | must tell you, | cannot help
telling you" He who tells his secret to
! his sweetheart is not necessarily lost he
only binds another chain upon himself.
my great gift, which have, do believe
above all other men, is the power by which
| made Cicely see her brother at sea, and
| by which | could subdue your Will so that
at a look or gesture you became, without
knowing it, my obedient servant By the
same Power | rule Lady Augusta; Sibyl
is outside my Power, and so is Tom. 1t is
by my gift that | am enabled to convey
the messages of my Friends, and TO enforce
respect for the teaching of the Hidden
| Wisdom"
eyes, Paul, know that Power"
81 have been warned, Hetty, by one who
knows. | have been warned, again and
again, that if suffered woman to fill my
| thoughts | should lose that power. Those
who have 1t must keep their hearts free
from love, from enmity, from hatred and
most fatal of all is Love. My dear, for
weeks the thought of you has been gradu-
ally stealing over my heart and mastering
me. can think of nothing else. fear |
| have lost my Power"
"Why, then, Paul, you will be no more
| than an ordinary man in love with an or
| binary girl. The common lot will be
ours"
Yesterday" said Paul, apparently not
| much comforted by this assurance. II
tried as usual with Mr. Brudenel. He on
| ly stared at me and began to fuss about
| could not move him. Then tried with
Cicely She laughed and chartered. !
could not move her. And then tried
with Lady Augusta and she did not even
know that was eXerting all my will to
nave her. Hetty, let me try once more.
Sit rs you used to sit-so. Fold your hands
hold up your face-look me full III the
eyes. Oh Hetty," he stopped to kiss her,
mo woman in the world has such beauti-
full eyes. So-nOw."
stopped.
''Oh r' he cried II feel that it is use
less"
Paul. cannot help it. Your eyes have
lost their old look. They have much
swe4 ter look. The authority has gone out
of them"
YES" he groaned, the authority has
gone. Perhaps, when go away, it will
return"
Il hope it will never return" said Hetty.
mo, Paul, no. If you wish it, you shall
have your power again. What are your
Friends worth if they cannot give it back
to You ?"
"My dear, you do not know what you
are saying. If | have thrown away my
Power, | shall never get it again-never-
never. Without it cando nothing Think
of all the things that | have done, and re
member that without the Power | could
have done none of these"
"My dear you have done these things
once. What need to do them again ~
"Hetty, can you not understand What
am | worth without this gift 1t was mine