CHAPTER XII.
SECRETS OF THE SUN AND MOON.
"Have I been long away ?" I asked, as I raised myself upright in the chair where I had been resting.
"I sent you from hence on Thursday morning at noon," replied Heliobas.
"It is now Friday evening, and within a few minutes of midnight.

I was growing alarmed.

I have never known anyone stay absent for so long; and you resisted my authority so powerfully, that I began to fear you would never come back at all." "I wish I had not been compelled to do so!" I said regretfully.
He smiled.
"No doubt you do.

It is the general complaint.

Will you stand up now and see how you feel ?" I obeyed.