For one instant I looked at the beautiful dead body of the friend I loved, with its set mouth and placid features, and then I smiled.

This was not Zara--SHE was alive and happy; this fair clay was but clay doomed to perish, but SHE was imperishable.
"Save him--save my brother!" These words rang in my ears.

I hesitated no longer--I determined to seek Heliobas at once.

Swiftly and noiselessly I slipped out of the chapel.

As the door swung behind me I heard a sound that first made me stop in sudden alarm, and then hurry on with increased eagerness.