"All these things I would do!" I answered--"All that is in the power of
my soul to endure mortally or immortally, I will bear for Love's sake!"
Again the light flashed through its black garments. When it next spoke,
its voice rang out harshly in ominous warning.
"Thy lover is dead!" it proclaimed--"He has passed from this sphere to
another, and ye shall not meet again for many cycles of time! DOST THOU
BELIEVE IT?"
A cold agony gripped my breast, but I would not yield to it, and
answered resolutely--
"No! I do not believe it! He could not die without my knowing and
feeling the parting of his soul from mine!"
There was a pause, in which only the thunder of that invisible sea far
down below us was audible. Then the voice went on,
"Thy lover is false!" it said--"His love for thee was a passing
mood--already he regrets--already he wearies in thought of thee and
loves thee no more! DOST THOU BELIEVE IT?"