lled now. One thing more let me ask, however: Does she
still love me?"

"In her mind is but one thought, and in her heart is an image--that of
the man before me. She loves you with all her soul."

"My most eager wish is satisfied, and for the moment my heart is at
rest," replied Ayrault, as they turned their steps towards camp. "Yet,
such is my weakness by nature, that, ere twenty-four hours have passed
I shall long to have you tell me again."

"I have been in love myself," replied the spirit, "and know the
feeling; yet to be of the smallest service to you gives me far more
happiness than it can give you. The mutual love in paradise exceeds
even the lover's love on earth, for it is only those that loved and can
love that are blessed.

"You can hardly realize," the bishop continued, as they rejoined
Bearwarden and Cortlandt, "the joy that a spirit in paradise
experiences when, on reopening his eyes after passing death, which is
but the portal, he finds himself endowed with sight that enables him to
see such distances and with such distinctness. The solar system, with
this ringed planet, its swarm of asteroids, and its intra-Mercurial
planets--one of which, Vulcan, you have already discovered--is a
beautiful sight. The planets nearest the sun receive such burning rays
that their surfaces are red-hot, and at the equator at perihelion are
molten. These are not seen from the earth, because, rising or setting
almost simultaneously with the sun, they are lost in its rays. The
great planet beyond Neptune's orbit is perhaps the most interesting.
This we call Cassandra, because it would be a prophet of evil to any
visitor from the stars who should judge the solar system by it. This
planet is nearly as large as Jupiter, being 80,000 miles in diameter,
but has a specific gravity lighter than Saturn. Bode's law, you know,
says, Write down 0, 3, 6, 12, 24, 48, 96. Add 4 to each, and get 4, 7,
10, 16, 28, 52, 100; and this series of numbers represents very nearly
the relative distances of the planets from the sun. According to this
law, you would expect the planet next beyond Neptune to be about
5,000,000,000 miles from the sun. But it is about 9,500,000,000, so
that there is a gap between Neptune and Cassandra, as between Mars and
Jupiter, except that in Cassandra's case there are no asteroids to show
where any planet was; we must, then, suppose it is an exception to
Bode's law, or that there was a planet that has co