THE FOUNTAIN OF CANDELAS, PART FIVE
No answer gave Candelas to Juan’s plea, but stood rigid in her trance. Then, her face seeming lit from within by that light: a light more powerful than that of the greatest of lanterns, she said “ Hearken well to me my love: as long as I shall live shall these rocks their waters yield.” Then, shaken by unearthly tremors: a quaking of the body and a tremoring of the soul, she said “ But if ye ever come hither and ye find this place be dry, look no more for me my darling, for I shall then be gone... Sign in to see full entry.