You have injured your bodily health by useless fretfulness and peevish discontent, and with that we have first to deal.

In a week's time, I will make a sound, sane man of you; and then I will teach you how to get the colours you seek--yes!' he added, smiling, 'even to the compassing of Correggio's blue.' "I could not speak for joy and gratitude; I grasped my friend and preserver by the hand.

We stood thus together for a brief interval, when suddenly Heliobas drew himself up to the full stateliness of his height and bent his calm eyes deliberately upon me.

A strange thrill ran through me; I still held his hand.
"'Rest!' he said in slow and emphatic tones, 'Weary and overwrought frame, take thy full and needful measure of repose! Struggling and deeply injured spirit, be free of thy narrow prison! By that Force which I acknowledge within me and thee and in all created things, I command thee, REST!' "Fascinated, awed, overcome by his manner, I gazed at him and would have spoken, but my tongue refused its office--my senses swam--my eyes closed--my limbs gave way--I fell senseless." Cellini again paused and looked at me.

Intent on his words, I would not interrupt him.