Angels and Women (1924)

190 ANGELS AND WOMEN
anxious friends gave us cordial welcome.
None questioned as to my absence from the
Palace and I told the vision to none; to no
other human eye was it revealed.
After some much needed refreshment, I
retired to the little room Japheth had un-
wittingly prepared for my reception. Here,
among the articles so hastily removed from
my chamber in the Palace, I found my journal
and before the events of this day of won-
ders fade from my memory, I confide to it
the secrets I can entrust to no other.
This night, by the solemn words of the
Prophet and my own irrevocable vow, I have
been united to Japheth in the sacred bonds
of marriage. The unusual circumstances
hastened this event. _An unparalleled trag-
edy is about to transpire. The desolation of
a world !
Was ever wife so wedded? Was ever a
marriage journey so begun? Our love had
birth in danger and gloom, dire portents in
earth and heaven attend our nuptials, and