CHAPTER XXI

* * * * * They were side by side—she pale as from the passage of the storm of some bitter experience. She stood with fixed eyes looking into the sky above and beyond me as if in a dream not wholly sad but very strange and painful. My master spoke: “You took her by the hand and led her out and all slept and none stood in the way. And a light of her presence is left behind to be the beginning of an illumination in the heart of these people, for in them also sits divinity waiting its day. A…