| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: It's extremely likely that she had it. That telegram was about me,
Richey."
"I'm getting a headache," he said, putting out his cigarette against
the sole of his shoe. "All I'm certain of just now is that if there
hadn't been a wreck, by this time you'd be sitting in an eight by
ten cell, and feeling like the rhyme for it."
"But listen to this," I contended, as he picked up his hat, "this
fellow Sullivan is a fugitive, and he's a lot more likely to make
advances to Bronson than to us. We could have the case continued,
release Bronson on bail and set a watch on him."
"Not my watch," McKnight protested. "It's a family heirloom."
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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 Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey: down the slope and out into the valley. Darkness was coming on,
and he welcomed it. Stars were blinking when he reached his old
hiding-place in the split of canyon wall, and by their aid he
slipped through the dense thickets to the grassy enclosure.
Wrangle stood in the center of it with his head up, and he
appeared black and of gigantic proportions in the dim light.
Venters whistled softly, began a slow approach, and then called.
The horse snorted and, plunging away with dull, heavy sound of
hoofs, he disappeared in the gloom. "Wilder than ever!" muttered
Venters. He followed the sorrel into the narrowing split between
the walls, and presently had to desist because he could not see a
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