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It was midnight, and she found herself in communication with the

Hierophant, who, from a different portion of the Sanctuary, was

seriously regarding her and again reading her inmost thoughts.

A few moments before she had all but decided that she could not

be Nu-nah, that death now, here in this Holy Sanctuary were

better far than hundreds of years as a Princess of the realm of

materiality. But, a new factor had now entered her being. A

force, more subtle than all Wisdom,--more potent than life or

eternity itself,--had transfused her soul--Love! Love, the first,

the highest, the all-embracing force of the mighty Universe, and

with this new love had been ushered also into being, Jealousy.

"Rathunor loved Nu-nah! Am I not a strange interloper? Was it not

worse by my decision to rob Nu-nah of her lover than to deprive

her of continued physical life?"