[The Mystics by Katherine Cecil Thurston]@TWC D-Link bookThe Mystics CHAPTER II 8/19
If this is so, I want you to guard the Book--but also I want you to guard my dead body.
Let no one touch it until he comes.
The key of the safe is here--" He fumbled weakly for the thin chain that hung about his neck.
"No one must remove it--no one must touch it until he comes--" His voice faltered. With a calm gesture John forced him back upon the pillows, and quietly wiped up the medicine. But with a fresh effort the old man lifted himself again. "John," he cried, suddenly, "do you understand what I am saying? Do you understand that for a whole night you may be alone with the inviolable Scitsym? 'The Hope of the Universe, by whose Light alone the One and Only Prophet shall be made known unto the Watchers!'" He murmured the quotation in a low, rapt voice. Again the younger man attempted to soothe him. "Don't distress yourself!" he said, gravely.
"I am here.
<<Back Index Next>> D-Link book Top TWC mobile books
|