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Running down to the edge of the sea he gazed across it and up to the
wonderful sky through which the moon rolled lazily like a silver ball.
Was there nothing to be seen there save that moon and the moon-dimmed
stars? With eager straining eyes he searched every quarter of the
visible space--stay! Was that a white dove soaring eastwards?--or a
cloud sinking to its rest?
"Morgana!" he cried again, stretching out his arms in despair--"She has
gone! And alone!"
Even as he spoke the dove-like shape was lost to sight beyond the
shining of the evening star.
L'Envoi
Several months ago the ruin of a great air-ship was found on the
outskirts of the Great Desert so battered and broken as to make its
mechanism unrecognisable. No one could trace its origin,--no one could
discover the method of its design. There was no remnant of any engine,
and its wings were cut to ribbons. The travellers who came upon its
fragments half buried in the sand left it where they found it, deciding
that a terrible catastrophe had overtaken the unfortunate aviators who
had piloted it thus far. They spoke of it when they returned to Europe,
but came upon no one who could offer a clue to its possible origin.
These same travellers were those who a short time since filled a
certain section of the sensational press with tales of a "Brazen City"
seen from the desert in the distance, with towers and cupolas that
shone like brass or like "the city of pure gold," revealed to St. John
the Divine, where "in the midst of the street of it" is the Tree of
Life. Such tales were and are received with scorn by the world's
majority, for whom food and money constitute the chief interest of
existence,--nevertheless tradition sometimes proves to be true, and
dreams become realities. However this may be, Morgana lives,--and can
make her voice heard when she will along the "Sound Ray"--that
wonderful "wireless" which is soon to be declared to the world. For
there is no distance that is not bridged by light,--and no separation
of sounds that cannot be again brought into unison and harmony. "There
are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our
philosophy,"--and the "Golden City" is one of those things! "Masters of
the world" are poor creatures at best,--but the secret Makers of the
New Race are the gods of the Future!
The End
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