The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: He was growing excited, hurried in his narrative.
"Right out then Nell swore she'd go after Thorne. If them
cavalrymen couldn't ride with a Western girl to save a brother
American--let them hang back! One feller, under orders, tried to
stop Blanco Sol. An' that feller invited himself to the hospital.
Then the cavalrymen went flyin' for their hosses. Mebbe Nell's
move was just foxy--woman's cunnin'. But I'm thinkin' as she
felt then she'd have sent Blanco Sol straight into Rojas's camp,
which, I'd forgot to say, was in plain sight.
"It didn't take long for every cavalryman in that camp to get wind
of what was comin' off. Shore they musta been wild. They strung
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer: to his fellow-guests, each in his separate cell; and each as remote
from real human companionship as if that cell were fashioned,
not in the bricks of London, but in the rocks of Hindustan!
In one of those rooms Graham Guthrie might at that moment be sleeping,
all unaware that he would awake to the Call of Siva, to the summons of death.
As we neared the Strand, Smith stopped the cab, discharging the man
outside Sotheby's auction-rooms.
"One of the doctor's watch-dogs may be in the foyer," he said thoughtfully,
"and it might spoil everything if we were seen to go to Guthrie's rooms.
There must be a back entrance to the kitchens, and so on?"
"There is," I replied quickly. "I have seen the vans delivering there.
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