This goes on for three years.

He has not written neither has he played his violin in her presence. He makes up his mind he will leave and travel alone; since he has seen the ways of the world and has met so many people - So he tells her one morning as she listened to him, her heart SORE. Then she asked him if he was sure he was going to travel alone.

He said, "Not exactly alone - Miss So and So and her people are going also. She has been preparing to be of use to me as we travel."

"Oh, I see, then you have found someone to take my place, I am sorry, yet glad as my friend, the newborn man, and I are going to be married soon."

He sat up straight in his chair, "Then I am not leaving you alone. How pleased I am to hear this! When will your wedding be?"

"I only have to name the day."

"Then get things ready and let us have a party, let us have a big wedding, let us invite everyone here."

"If you want me too, we will because this will be the last day of my position with you - So we will celebrate it as we should. We will invite your people and as they live so will we all live - FOR ONE DAY. Even I will join in in this life of MAKE-BELIEVE for one day more before I take life up in True home-making in earnest."

He seemed not to be sorry to hear this, but to feel as if he had been freed from something he knew not what.

That evening she told her lover of her decision. He took her in his arms and said, "How wonderful you are! How sweet you are and how noble you have been! If you stick to your duties as my wife as you have to that boy - what a treasure you will be to me!"

"The two paths have come together, let us keep close so that no one can come in between. When I was with the young Master-mind I was all for him, when I am your wife I will be all yours. I loved you ever since the first time I saw you. I wondered why you looked so sad, now I know if you were taken from me I too would be as sad as you were. How big and strong and wonderful you are, MY LOVE! I do not ask for all your love - I will share it ONLY for she whom you loved and who loved you; and she still loves you. So we will both love her; and in this love, we will be a three-in-one love."

"You speak with such Wisdom, I wonder if I ever will be worthy of you?"

"As the years go on you will be able to answer that question yourself. It is too big for me to even try to answer, at the present time; but I shall try to be worthy of you."

"And I will try to be worthy of you. We will live each day to be more happy tomorrow. We will begin a new picture. Heretofore, we have had a picture all our own, but we will have one this time for two; and if I make a mistake you will paint it over as soon as possible - and if you do I will lose no time doing my part. Let us, in our new life, live to live so both of us might say truthfully when we near our journey's end, 'We did live'."

"Well, when does this great day come? What is the date? I know the month and the year and the other should be easy for you."

"Give me until tomorrow, and I will tell you."

"All right, set the date and as you say it shall be."

She chooses her wedding day and the time draws near and preparations are being made. They have a busy time. The idea of finding a man who wants her helps to fill in the regrets of the departure from her life of the young Master-mind.

Not much was said of his future travels. The day before the wedding she was doing her last minute shopping and giving final orders in a store for the things she wanted delivered - she was so interested in her business that she did not notice someone standing beside her. When she turned to leave, she looked up and looked into the face of the Mysterious Man. She noticed his smile. The first thing he said to her, "Well, I see the two paths will soon become one and that path will be a happy one."

"Yes, but how did you know?"

"Do you not think I can read the headline in the paper? I did, even if it was over the shoulder of a man sitting in the seat ahead of me in the train. You see, I just got in this morning."

"Will you come to our wedding?"

"Yes," he says, "but it may be late before I get there. But I will be there to see you leave on your wedding trip." He did not mention the young man; but as he left he said "I will see you again tomorrow after you have become a wife. You are going to be a fortunate wife. Good-by."

On the wedding day the people are starting to arrive. All things were going wonderful; but before the crowd gathered she asked the young Master-mind if he would play his violin for her tonight. He promised he would but said, "It is almost three years since I touched it." He had a feeling of regret; but soon forgot it.

The young lady of his love dream entered the room and came toward him and took him away from his friend of the past - as though she had the right. She gloried in showing her strength before the true friend of the past. At first he looked at his friend then again at this, what he thought was his love, then left his friend. As they parted from her she said to him, "Remember the story of the flower."

He looked back to her and she could see she had hurt him. When the two young people were alone, she said, "Do you not think this would be a wonderful opportunity to announce our engagement?"

"Why, yes, if we were going to be engaged, but I have not thought of that. No one said anything that I can remember."

"Maybe you cannot remember, but you did ask my parents for their consent and they were satisfied. Since we are going to travel together, why should we not be married before we go?"

He being a man said, "If I asked you to marry me and got the consent of your parents, although I cannot remember, I am man enough to go through with it - but it is all a mystery to me."

"Well, if you get too much wine and say what you do not intend, the only way I can see is to make you pay for your folly. I could have been married long ago; but I have been waiting for you. You will be a big man some day and with my help to get you into the right capacity, you will make a man of yourself. You can talk as no other man talks, you can play your violin as no one else can, although I have not heard you play for a long time. You know you are mine, yes since the first time I saw you. I chose you as mine and how I have kept after you and when you proposed to me I knew I had won a victory over all the other girls - also this friend of yours - I never liked her for keeping company with you when I wanted you so bad; but here I am and as the saying is 'if you go after it you can have anything you want.' Will you announce our engagement at the dance before the midnight lunch? Let us have all the fun out of the party that can be gotten out of it. Yes, we will eat, drink and be merry. Come on, step out of your gloom. To look at your face you would think I was talking sorrow and you ought to know there is nothing serious - not even in married life."

At these words, he said, "Well, as you say so it shall be." So it was settled to give it at the last hour - as the surprise of the evening. What a party, everyone enjoying themselves to the limit! Only three and these were the three of most importance, the new husband was full of contentment for himself but he had to look upon the picture of the masses for the first time through the eyes of Wisdom - and he felt a sympathy come over him for these people as he saw them. His wife was happy in her new found position and she too looked at him then at all other men and wondered. As she gazed around the people, her eyes met the eyes of her friend and Master of yesterday; but her Master no more. As she did she saw a sadness in his eyes she had never seen before. She smiled upon him but he did not smile back. She was worried and wondered what the mysterious man would say when he saw this young Master-mind subdued.

The evening sped on and soon everyone was beginning to feel the effects of the wine. The party was becoming just a conglomeration of human voices, no one saying anything worth while. All at once a young lady stood up and clapped her hands for quiet; then announced that her young friend would give them a surprise in his music - and another surprise after the music. She called upon him to come forward. This was a critical moment and it worried the bride for she saw the condition of her young Master. She had never seen him as he was tonight - he looked sad and so unnatural. It seemed he had drank more wine than anyone present; as if he was trying to forget something that troubled him. Surely it could not be that she now belonged to someone else for he had told her he was leaving her. If only the Man of Mystery would appear. Her mind went back and she lived over the past; and he always did appear at every critical moment - surely he would not fail tonight.

As these thoughts flitted through her mind the young Master was rising unsteadily to his feet with his violin in his hand. He made an effort to steady himself, put the violin to his chin, drew the bow across the violin and as he did the sound that it produced seemed to agitate him. He tried it again, but the sounds still did not suit him. He straightened up, started to play and as he did - did music come? No, only moans, only troubled sounds. The people were anticipating something great and instead the violin seemed to be as intoxicated as its master. He tried and tried, but the more he tried the more he failed. Passion, rage and hatred showed in his face as he stood there facing the people. What a FOOL he had made of himself!

As these thoughts filled his mind he gave a hilarious shout and said, "You will not play for me. You just send mocking sounds to torture me. You who was once my friend. How I hate you! You are not fit to play upon."

The people sat transfixed as if they were statues afraid to move or say anything. As they looked at this young man before them they thought he had lost his mind. What a sight! What a picture of distress! He raised the violin above his head to dash it upon the floor when a hand grasped it from behind and stayed the destruction of the violin, his greatest friend, the only thing that could tell his Creator his feelings toward him. As his hands were stayed in carrying out the destruction, he turned in rage to see who dared try to stop him; and his eyes met the eyes of the Mysterious Man. He stood and looked at him and what a feeling came over him. The man of Mystery changed his expression of sympathy to a smile and the Light of Truth came back to the young man. He put his violin down turned to the people who were still sitting wondering what the meaning of all this was. He gazed upon them, his eyes becoming more bright, his brain becoming more clear; then he saw again from the eyes of wisdom for the first time for over three years. He gazed long at these people who a few minutes ago seemed real, but the longer he looked the more he saw. His mental vision was drawing a true picture.

He once more turned to face the Man of Wisdom, then again to the people. They all seemed to shed their outward garments of camouflage and he could see them for just what they were. He again turned to the Man of Wisdom and said "Why, they are just CLAY, yes CLAY, of a color I would not like to say; but clay - only they are covered with the beauties of man's Creation. What a hideous picture! Oh, what can I do? How can I ever take from my mental vision this true picture laid bare before me? Can it be possible that I have been one of them? No, it cannot be."

The new bride stepped forward and said to the man of Wisdom, "I knew you would not fail us."

He turned to her with a smile, "Then why did you worry so much tonight?"

"Oh, you know everything."

To the people she said, "The party is over. You may all go home."

The young lady who said she was the promised wife of the young man stood up. He looked at her with a new light in his eyes and saw her for the first time in her TRUE SELF. As she said she was sorry the music had been a failure, but there had come through it a drama worth seeing. "But there is another surprise for you." She then turned to her supposed husband and said to him, "Now tell the news to these people and I hope you will make it more effectual than you did your music."

He stood up and looked at her and smiled, yes the old self once more. He then spoke, "My dear friends of TONIGHT and of the PAST, I thank you for what you have taught me - a lesson that I will appreciate as long as I live. You have entertained me in the past, and I did enjoy your company; but tonight the climax came - I made a FOOL of myself; I tried to give you music; but my soul-mind, having been subdued to the point that it had nothing to give, refused to give anything and as you saw so it was. This young lady who has been my constant companion for the past four years, I must say, has been good to me and has shown me many lessons in life for which I wish to thank her. A few days ago she enlightened me on a subject of which I could not remember. She told me I had asked her to be my wife; and also I had asked her parents consent which they had given." Turning to the parents, he said, "Is this true?"

They answered, "Yes."

"She made me promise to announce the engagement at this party, as a surprise; but since I cannot remember of saying any of these things - and I have ONLY HER word for it and marriage was always my last consideration, I will announce our engagement just as she wished me to do. But I will claim the right to name the date of our wedding. You are all here to witness this statement; I shall marry this lady; but the date will be published later. It will not be for years - how many, I, at this moment, cannot tell. If she holds me, I will abide by her decision - that is all. I thank the hostess and new bride for this party. I thank all you people for being here and I thank my Master-mind (turning to the Man of Mystery) for coming at the critical moment." He then sat down.

The engaged lady stood up and said, "You think you will get away with this; but will you? You may, but you will pay for it - and dearly."

"As you say so it shall be. Punish me as thou seest, I will not say one word against anything you may do. I see, I hear once more and the price can not be too big for what you have done for me tonight.

The people left; but with a true mental picture such as they had never seen before.

When the last one had gone and the four are together, the new married man said, "All we need is the ship, the moonlight and the swish of the water against the sides of the ship to make the night complete. What a day this has been for me! After I took my part this afternoon, I sat back and saw a play of the life I used to take part in. Can it be possible these things used to fill in my life? What a picture - and the thrills! What a life! How interesting to the observer! What a consolation to see the finish of such a play! But as long as the hero comes out victorious, after you can see him as a lost hope, how wonderful! What a lesson! You said truthfully, when you said, 'You must watch your step.' How diligent you have to be, how easy it is to be led by the cloak of camouflage, how cunning and deceitful they are! I think I once heard someone say 'Do not judge the flower for its beauty on the outside, but penetrate into its inner self and see the center'."

As his new partner of life smiled, the young master-mind looked at her and said, "Yes, if we would take advantage of the lessons that are given to us, we might profit by it; yet there is some satisfaction of being able to look for yourself and see it as we should see."

The Mysterious Man says, "As I see it, there are no two persons that can see the same. This world seems to be for the individual. The more I see the Truth of Life, the more this seems to be COMMON SENSE. To help others to start to see, we can sometimes put them on the true line of thought - That is the reason the bigger or more trained minds try to convey to others thoughts through their conversations or writings. The man of Wisdom knows that no one can see as he sees; but by putting the things as he sees them before others they grasp an Idea which will in future expand into a mental picture of their own - And even if the picture is not as you put it, they too will see and understand in their way just as you do in yours; and it will be just as real to them as yours is to you. You know, as we see so do we understand. We should never force our views upon others. If we are drawn into a conversation and feel as though we should take part in it let us only enter in at the right moment and it will fit in but if you force it before its time or hold it back too long; then it is a waste of time to say anything.

We, of the Path of Wisdom, never talk to take up time - time is too short for us and we have so much to accumulate in this short life we live that we should not waste one moment of this precious time given to us by the Laws of Creation. As you two start on the single path together, you are both of the Life of Truth and you will start upon a journey tomorrow. Be sure to care for one another, but both of you keep your eyes open and do not miss one page of the Book of Creation. Where you are going there is enough food for thought, and you will see many things together and each one of you will see the same picture at the same time; but there will be times when you will both be reading from practically the same page - yet you will not get the same picture. It will be interesting to tell your picture, as you see them, to each other. You will have the advantage of a double vision. Time is getting late. I must go to my hotel. I will see you tomorrow again and will see you leave for your wonderful life in its new Path; then I will take my Young Soul-mind with me after you leave. He will not take the journey he had planned for him. I have many things to say to him in the next few days. Good night."

"Why did we not ask him to stay here all night?" said the young man.

"There is one mind no one can change so why waste time asking him?"