6/16 Without you, he might have carried out his base designs. It was the power of the Unseen that guided me on the day I entered the Presence Room and found you alone with him." He spoke hurriedly and disjointedly, but as the last word left his lips another expression crossed his face, as though a new suggestion passed through his mind. "Did you see nothing strange in the fact that he--a Prophet of Sublime Mysteries--should hold your hand, as any man of the earth might hold it ?" He bent still closer, jealousy and suspicion darkening his face. |