| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Master Key by L. Frank Baum: place to alight.
Near by was a monstrous church that sent a sharp steeple far into the
air. Rob examined this spire and saw a narrow opening in the masonry
that led to a small room where a chime of bells hung. He crept
through the opening and, finding a ladder that connected the belfry
with a platform below, began to descend.
There were three ladders, and then a winding flight of narrow, rickety
stairs to be passed before Rob finally reached a small room in the
body of the church. This room proved to have two doors, one
connecting with the auditorium and the other letting into a side
street. Both were locked, but Rob pointed the electric tube at the
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: in the high wall. This gate had a secret lock, which, however, was
neither hard to find nor hard to open. Muller managed it with ease,
and looked out through the gate on the street beyond. The broad
promenade, deserted now in its winter snowiness, led away in one
direction to the heart of the city. In the other it ended in the
main county high-road. This was a broad, well-made turnpike, with
footpath and rows of trees. A half-hour's walk along it would bring
one to the little village clustering about the Archduke's favourite
hunting castle. There was a little railway station near the castle,
but it was used only by suburban trains or for the royal private car.
Muller did not intend to burden his brain with unnecessary facts,
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