eous increase of health and vigor. We did not at first use
our magnic wings for flight, but walked along paths that wound around
the beach of golden sand, shaded by towering palms.

After remaining for a time on the margin of the sea we rose on our
wings, and, like birds, encircled the island, rising ever higher until
we alighted before the palace created for Lyone, a gem of the rosiest
marble, covered with a dome of gold that flashed around it the light
of the sun. The architecture was broad and heavy with splendid
carvings, and surrounded by a pillared portico. The palace stood on
the shore of a beautiful sheet of cool water; elsewhere its shores
were thickly clothed with tropic foliage and aerial gardens of the
greatest beauty.

We had reached at last the holy of holies of ideal attainment, a
retreat of bewildering beauty. The weird and splendid proportions of
the palace, with its domes and towers ornamented with sculptured
arabesques, rising from the soft waters of the lake, a veritable
Fountain of Youth, all surrounded by the green and gleaming forest and
gardens without end, filled our souls with a new rapture. Everything
was so perfect and peaceful, so rich with life and beauty, so fresh
and sparkling, so unspeakably happy, that I said, "This is the end of
all toil and ambition, this is the perfect flower of life. Here is the
lake of immortality, and here the fabled gardens of the Hesperides."

Rayoulb, the chamberlain of the palace, and his acolytes, who received
us, were also the product of spirit power, the reincarnation of former
inmates of Egyplosis. They awaited us before the palace, announcing a
feast had already been prepared for us.

The interior of the palace revealed new wonders. Wide and lofty
chambers were hung, some with woven and painted tapestries, and some
plated with sheets of gold, illuminated by electricity with
many-colored designs in precious metal. Others were decorated with
tender and brilliant frescoes, in which the transparent plaster seemed
to hold in its depths the tones of gold, of ultramarine and vermilion,
in fabulous scenes. Woven and painted tapestries clothed the walls of
still other chambers, representing in entrancing colors the most
occult mysteries of Egyplosis. The banqueting chamber had a dome of
enamelled glass, that softened the light with many a caressing color.
Porcelain vases, gorgeous in depth and richness of color, containing
plants of the richest bloom, added to