| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: our horror about father. Jimmie didn't dare take the securities
and father's confession with him for fear he'd be searched at the
police station, and the scandal would have come out then."
"True," agreed McIntyre. "Go on, Helen."
"So Jimmie thrust the securities and father's confession into an
envelope and sealed it with red wax, using Barbara's seal,"
explained Helen. "He hadn't time to write an address or message
on it, but he told me to return the envelope to him later in the
day or give it to Philip Rochester and ask his aid. I brought it
here on Wednesday morning and with Harry's permission put the
envelope in the safe."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa: with their eyes, they beheld a herd of buffalo. The arrow sprang
from the bow! It darted into the skull of the foremost buffalo.
But unlike other arrows it pierced through the head of the creature
and spinning in the air lit into the next buffalo head. One by one
the buffalo fell upon the sweet grass they were grazing. With
straight quivering limbs they lay on their sides. The young man
stood calmly by, counting on his fingers the buffalo as they
dropped dead to the ground. When the last one fell, he ran thither
and picking up his magic arrow wiped it carefully on the soft
grass. He slipped it into his long fringed quiver.
"He is going to make a feast for some hungry tribe of men or
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie: melancholy in the world: the mermaids calling to the moon.
Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last.
A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea;
but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are
hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he
was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face
and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an
awfully big adventure."
Chapter 9
THE NEVER BIRD
The last sound Peter heard before he was quite alone were the
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