Its silence seemed to mock him.

Those who slept beneath its marble floor were not more silent.
Was he mad that he should claim the power to work this miracle--to charm the dead back through the Gates of Death as Orpheus charmed Eurydice?
Yet Stella did this thing--but how?
He turned to the volume and page of her diary which dealt with the drawing down of Gudrun.

Yes, here she spoke of continual efforts and of "that long, long preparation"-- of prayer and fasting also.

Here, too, was the whole secret summed up in a dozen words: "To see a spirit one must grow akin to spirits." Well, it could be done, and he would do it.

But look further on where she said: "I shall call her back no more, lest the thing should get the mastery of me, and I become unfitted for my work on earth.