| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Case of the Registered Letter by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: commissioner. "Muller, Miss Graumann believes her nephew innocent,
contrary to the opinion of the local authorities in G-. She has
come to ask for some one from here who could ferret out the truth
of this matter. You are free now, and if we find that it can be
done without offending the local authorities -"
"Who is the commissioner in charge of the case in G-?" asked Muller.
"Commissioner Lange is his name, I believe," replied Miss Graumann.
"H'm!" Muller and the commissioner exchanged glances.
"I think we can venture to hear more of this," said the commissioner,
as if in answer to their unspoken thought. "Can you give us the
details now, Madam? Who is, or rather who was, this John Siders?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: Ah! je m'en souviens . . .
LA VOIX D'IOKANAAN. Voici le temps! Ce que j'ai predit est arrive,
dit le Seigneur Dieu. Voici le jour dont j'avais parle.
HERODIAS. Faites-le taire. Je ne veux pas entendre sa voix. Cet
homme vomit toujours des injures contre moi.
HERODE. Il n'a rien dit contre vous. Aussi, c'est un tres grand
prophete.
HERODIAS. Je ne crois pas aux prophetes. Est-ce qu'un homme peut
dire ce qui doit arriver? Personne ne le sait. Aussi, il m'insulte
toujours. Mais je pense que vous avez peur de lui . . . Enfin, je
sais bien que vous avez peur de lui.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Alexandria and her Schools by Charles Kingsley: Justinian from his throne.
In the midst of these Jacobite and Melchite controversies and riots,
appeared before the city the armies of certain wild and unlettered Arab
tribes. A short and fruitless struggle followed; and, strange to say, a
few months swept away from the face of the earth, not only the wealth,
the commerce, the castles, and the liberty, but the philosophy and the
Christianity of Alexandria; crushed to powder by one fearful blow, all
that had been built up by Alexander and the Ptolemies, by Clement and
the philosophers, and made void, to all appearance, nine hundred years
of human toil. The people, having no real hold on their hereditary
Creed, accepted, by tens of thousands, that of the Mussulman invaders.
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