Then, looking up toward the ruddy planet, and putting her one absorbing thought into fewest words, she said in a low voice, but clearly spoken:
"Cyrus, come back. I have always loved you."
Three times she repeated it; and each time with an overflowing heart.
If, among the undiscovered forces between other worlds and ours, there moves, like waves of light, a psychic power intensified by human love, repentance and devotion, then this woman's message should reach the uttermost limits of celestial space. Her very soul was in it.
XXI ABOVE THE CLOUDS
Ruth's first night on duty at the hospital, ten days later, was eventful.