“Yes,” he said; “the God of the Mountain of whom the tradition has come down to us from our forefathers.  He is awake again; he sees, he hears and we are afraid.  Plead with him for us, O Friend-from-the-Sea.”

As he spoke we were passing through a little patch of thick bush.  Suddenly from out of this bush, I saw a lad appear.  He wore a mask upon his face, but from his shape could not have been more than thirteen or fourteen years of age.  In his hand was a wooden club.  He ran forward, stopped, and with a yell of hate hurled it, I think at Bastin, but it hit me.  At any rate I felt a shock and remembered no more.

Dreams.  Dreams.  Endless dreams!  What were they all about?  I do not know.  It seemed to me that through them continually I saw the stately figure of old Oro contemplating me gravely, as though he were making up his mind about something in which I must play a part.  Then there was another figure, that of the gracious but imperial Yva, who from time to time, as I thought, leant over me and whispered in my ear words of rest and comfort.  Nor was this all, since her shape had a way of changing suddenly into that of my lost wife who would speak with her voice.  Or perhaps my wife would speak with Yva’s voice.  To my disordered sense it was as though they were one personality, having two shapes, either of which could be assumed at will.  It was most strange and yet to me most blessed, since in the living I seemed to have found the dead, and in the dead the living.  More, I took journeys, or rather some unknown part of me seemed to do so.  One of these I remember, for its majestic character stamped itself upon my mind in such a fashion that all the waters of delirium could not wash it out nor all its winds blow away that memory.

I was travelling through space with Yva a thousand times faster than light can flash.  We passed sun after sun.  They drew near, they grew into enormous, flaming Glories round which circled world upon world.  They became small, dwindled to points of light and disappeared.

We found footing upon some far land and passed a marvelous white city wherein were buildings with domes of crystal and alabaster, in the latter of which were set windows made of great jewels; sapphires or rubies they seemed to me.  We went on up a lovely valley.  To the left were hills, down which tumbled waterfalls; to the right was a river broad and deep that seemed to overflow its banks as does the Nile.  Behind were high mountains on the slopes of which grew forests of glorious trees, some of them aflame with bloom, while far away up their crests stood colossal golden statues set wide apart.  They looked like guardian angels watching that city and that vale.  The land was lit with a light such as that of the moon, only intensified and of many colours.  Indeed looking up, I saw that above us floated three moons, each of them bigger than our own at the full, and gathered that here it was night.