All the world was on horseback, all the world was racing higher and higher, faster and faster.

He saw someone near him rise on to his horse's back and stand on it, waving his arms.

He would like to have done that, but he found that he was part of his horse, as though he had been glued to it.

He shouted, he cried aloud, he was so happy that he thought of no one and nothing...

The flame danced about him in a circle, he seemed to rise so high that there was a sudden stillness, he was in the very heart of the stars; then came the supreme moment when, as he had always known, that one day he would be, he was master of the world...