Those around me must have witnessed such scenes at least as often as I; but it was plain that the impression made, even on the experienced Chiefs of the Order, was far deeper than had affected myself.

I should hardly have been able to remember the words of the prophecy, but for subsequent conversation thereon with Eveena, when one part had been fulfilled and the rest was on the eve of a too terribly truthful fulfilment; but for the events that fixed their prediction in my mind--it may be in terms a little more precise than those actually employed, though I have endeavoured to record these with conscientious accuracy.
Led by Esmo, we passed along another gallery into the small chamber where met the secret Council of the Order, and long and anxious were the debates wherein the revelations of the dreamer were treated as conveying the most certain and unquestionable warning.

The first rays of morning were stealing through the mists into the peristyle of our host's dwelling before I re-entered Eveena's chamber.

She was slumbering, but restlessly, and so lightly that she sprang up at once on my entrance.

For a few moments all other thought was lost in the delight of my return after an absence whose very length had alarmed her, despite her father's previous assurance.