The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-05
back and struggling to regain its natural

back and struggling to regain its natural
position"
Correct, but do you notice that the in
sect has seven feet?"
I'VE have reached the seventh gallery"
1.-The SEVENTH! l should rather say, sir,
the seventy seventh! Why, we seem to
have been walking for seven years."
This is the seventh class-way that We
have arrived at, and from the similarity be-
conclude that we are following the correct
route"
II trust you are right. Monsieur Maur-
ice."
"If 1 show you the same proof when we
reach the fourteenth turning what shall
you sayY"
II shall DO very much surprised an
swered Aristomene. They resumed their
march. Maurice, now full of hope, con-
tinued to mark each humble in his note
book. As for Gargaridi, he occupied him
self by measuring with his cane the width
of the various passages they traversed.
"Victory!" cried the young archRolo9ist
suddenly, nfter three-quarters of an hour
of trampinR. "See here, Gargaridi!' Are
you a magician, sir, or can it be that we
have passed here before?' queried the
nstonishcd Greek. He saw another sign re-
sembling the former one, but with this diff
ference, TINT now the insect appeared to
have fourteen legs instead of seven.
Neither one nor tho other, l assure Won,
Gargaridi; and now | not only predict that
Mt tho twenty-tlrst turning we shall find this
craven insect with twenty-one legs. but | will
also wager that We shall then hive reached
the door of tho sanctuary"
How can you tell that, sir? And why
twenty-one rather than any other number?'
"Your own studies mist have told you,
Gargaridi, of tho Importance the ancients
attached to that number, and especially as
regards it's two multiples, seven and three
We find them in all the works of nature, in
the creation of the world, in fables and in
facts, i'll religious ceremonies, lnvocations,
exorcisms, in the mysteries of the Knhbale,
in theology, i'll geometry-eyerywhere. From
tho remotcst times they have clothed them
with special virtues, and we rarely come upon
any ancient movement or agency to which
they are not the key.
YES, it il curious said Gnrgnridi. quite
Interested. Even now | can call to mind
tho seven prismatic colors, the week of
seven days, the seven cardinal sins. tho
seven ~sacraments; and, again, the trinity
of three dlvinities, the three praces, the
three theological virtues. But there is one
thing TINT ]. too, have noticed about these
p~assages-their regular and methodical in
o ease in size at every seventh one"
1T ia II sure sign that we are advancing"
snid Maurice. Nor were his conieotures
wrong. Hardly had they passed the
NW'ieN w ~ hN potil IiPH
u cry of surprise and bewilderment.
a long and large avenue stretched before
them, bordeicd OF either aide with a row of
colossal figures, giania with the fnoes of
bulls and bulls with human fnces. At tho
end OF the avenue WINS n platform upon
which IN alter stood, crowned with tho fig
ure OF n sun bathed in the rnys of ita own
light and surrounded by n girale of constel-
lntions representing the twelve signsof the
Zodiac.
Maurice trimmed his lamp to gain n bet
tor Wow. The whole effect was imposing