that Diana happens to think of you, I too
will become stone, and if we are to have joy of each other, we had
better have it soon, before I become as these others you have loved."

Eos looked at him sadly, her lips glistening with an unearthly dew and
her eyes shining like chained lightnings.

"It was that thought that betrayed me every time, Druga. Each of those
men said much those same words to me when he learned the fate that
awaited him, and for each of them my heart turned to water and we spent
our time in dalliance instead of spending our energies trying to
overcome the work of my enemy.

"For each of them I tried to give all there was of pleasure while they
yet had breath, as one tries to give water to a man about to die of
fever. I was only that much more hurt by their death--for such giving of
the self opens one to the deepest pangs of parting.

"That is the agony Diana designed for me, and she has done this to me
since that time I brought a young man to her island that was sacred to
her only. This time, Druga, there will be none of that for us; we will
try some other medicine than love for each other against this evil.
Work, we will try!"

"There speaks my dead Feronia," murmured Druga, sadly. And for thought
of her he forgot to feel the denial of his desire for the body of this
woman, a body filled with the energies of the whole Universal Pole of
female magnetism. That he should lose that glory was nothing beside the
pang he felt at thought of Feronia; and the wise Eos smiled to note that
this man had not forgotten his love even in the face of her infinite
attraction.

"If we went back to Feronia's home, might it not be that her work would
give you some inkling of how Diana might be overcome?" Druga was
thoughtful.

"I can only try," Eos answered him. "We will go there. I will examine
her work and her notes, and you will show me her laboratories that I
have heard of even here. Together, we might get an answer."

* * * * *

Eos got up from the board, and went to a small chamber at the edge of
the disk. There her hands sent the disk slanting upward into the sky. As
they left the center of the pole of animal magnetism, Eos' body and face
changed subtly. Druga was released from the power of the pole's
attraction, and whether that was a good thing or not he could not say,
except that every atom of his body wanted to return there to that place
and remain.

"How is it, Eos