But with Sah-luma it was different! Sah-luma must be guarded and cherished; his was a valuable life--the life of a genius such as the world sees but once in a century--and it should not, so Theos determined,--be emperilled or wasted; no! not even for the sake of the sensuous, exquisite, conquering beauty of this dazzling Priestess of the Sun--the fairest sorceress that ever triumphed over the frail yet immortal Spirit of Man!