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While to the world Nu-nah was a source of mystical wonder, to

Rathunor she was his stay and comfort. He needed no further

evidence and assurance of Nu-nah's love for him. Too often had he

experienced the response from within to her silent pleadings for

light, truth and wisdom. The attraction of the outer world was

losing its fascination for him, the longings from within grew

stronger and more clamorous for outward expression until, one

day, he advanced the subject of astrology to the Princess Nu-nah.

For an instant, her whole being was illuminated by that

mysterious light--for a single moment the soul arose to the

supremacy of the brain and found a faint glimmering expression

that was visible to Rathunor's ever-watchful eye.

"Astrology, my Rathunor, fascinates me with its name and the

wonders and mysteries it is said to reveal. Do you think those

Astrologer Priests of the Temple know whereof they speak, and do

they read the stars and gain from them the wisdom they are said

to possess?"