| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: But justice must be done."
Muller's elation vanished and a deep sigh welled up from his heart.
The commissioner nodded slowly, and glanced across the desk almost
timidly. This case had appeared to be so simple, and suddenly the
hidden deeps of a dark mystery had opened before him, deeps already
sounded by the little man here who had gone so quietly about his
work while the official police, represented in this case by
Commissioner von Riedau himself, had sat calmly waiting for an
innocent man to confess to a crime he had not committed! It was
humiliating. The commissioner flushed again and his eyes sank to
the floor.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: other, it may be called, and will almost certainly become, the
tongue of the Pacific. I will instance a few examples. I met in
Majuro a Marshall Island boy who spoke excellent English; this he
had learned in the German firm in Jaluit, yet did not speak one
word of German. I heard from a gendarme who had taught school in
Rapa-iti that while the children had the utmost difficulty or
reluctance to learn French, they picked up English on the wayside,
and as if by accident. On one of the most out-of-the-way atolls in
the Carolines, my friend Mr. Benjamin Hird was amazed to find the
lads playing cricket on the beach and talking English; and it was
in English that the crew of the JANET NICOLL, a set of black boys
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