"now give yourself to your love for
her--with your strength!"

Presently a warm glow flowed up into Skag's feet, filling his person
and extending his physical sentiency into her body. That body was
utterly bound in a strange vise--very heavy; as if every particle of
every part were separately frozen.

. . . It seemed to Skag as if he could not breathe.

"Breathe!" the mystic said, as he rose from the floor to stand on his
own feet.

That instant an impact of force from him struck Skag like a blow; and
the next moment his sense of strength had become like that of twenty
men--it was hard to bear.

"Steady--slow!" It was a soft, but imperative order.

Gradually the warmth increased; not in degree, but in the rate of its
flow. At last it was a surge, so intense that Skag could feel his own
blood-pulse--a different kind of pulse.

The need of help was very great. There was a faintness--surely more
terrible than any death!

"Fear not!" the mystic called tenderly. "The Supreme Power cares for
her--more than you can!"

As he heard these words, a great tide rose up into Skag, penetrating
his body and his mind and the uttermost deeps of his consciousness. A
vast sweeping tide--it descended below all depths, it ascended above
all heights, it compassed all reaches. It was ineffable
love--transcendent. It was for her! But it was for him--too! Nay--it
was for every living thing in this mortal condition and in all other
conditions!

. . . Carlin turned her head a little, lifted one hand a little and
sighed deeply. Then she moved till she lay easily on one side, just
murmuring:

"I think I'll sleep."

Carlin had spoken again!

"Son" (the mystic spoke very softly, while he drew Skag to a large
couch in the same room), "it is finished. She is altogether safe now.
You should be this far away; stretch yourself here and give yourself to
sleep also--it will be best for her if you do.

"Be at perfect rest--there is no fear. (I will give Bhanah
directions.) Now--Peace be on thee; and on thy house, forever!"

His words permitted no answer. He went and smiled down on Carlin. He
touched her forehead with his finger-tips--he even kissed her curling
hair.

"Child of my brother's love!" he said softly, as he turned away.

Then Skag also slept.

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