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Elissa

CHAPTER II
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If a spirit worthy to be thus loved and worshipped now wanders in earthly shape upon the world, seeking its counterpart and its completion, I cannot tell.

Yet were it so, and should they chance to meet, it might be happy for such brave spirits, for then the answer to the great riddle would be theirs." Wondering what this riddle might be, Aziel bent towards her to reply, when suddenly round a bend in the path but a few paces from them came a body of soldiers and attendants, headed by a man clad in a white robe and walking with a staff.

This man was grey-headed and keen-eyed, thin in face and ascetic in appearance, with a brow of power and a bearing of dignity.

At the sight of the pair he halted, looking at them in question, and with disapproval.
"Our search is ended," he said in Hebrew, "for here is he whom we seek, and alone with him a heathen woman, robed like a priestess of the Groves." "Whom do you seek, Issachar ?" asked Aziel hurriedly, for the sudden appearance of the Levite disturbed him.
"Yourself, Prince.

Surely you can guess that your absence has been noted.


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