Heart to Heart: Ashton Ford, Psychic Detective (25 page)

Soul mates?

Sure why not. Valentinius, that rascal, had
known it all along, and he knew also that this experience would be
her severest test. I was indeed the man for him.

Some day, some where, I
would like to think that
he
will be the man for
me
. It is not impossible.

Afterword

I believe that Francesca gave this to me
after she'd gone home:

A Lovers' Creed

Because I love you,

I happily put you first in any issue
involving

personal comfort or desires;

I could not do otherwise,

And love you.

But in any issue involving personal
conscience

or sense of rightness and
wrongness

in conduct toward a third person,

or some personal sense of duty,

The one thing that our love cannot
endure

is for you to insist that I behave

as though I were you

instead of myself;

You cannot supplant me—nor I, you—

For we cannot love each other

if we cannot be ourselves

and respect ourselves—

Cannot even know that we are loved or
loving,

except as we know who we are—

And know that ultimately we stand before
God

naked and accountable

for our own conscience

and our decisions under that conscience.

I can love you only as myself,

not as another,

I want you to love me only as yourself;

For no other love can have meaning

for either of us,

And I cannot find that love or return it

if I do not know who we are.

Thank you, Francesca. I really needed
that.

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Author's note

The quotations on the life
of St. Germain are taken from
The Conte de
St. Germain: The Secret of Kings
by I.
Cooper-Oakley, originally published by Ars Regia of Milan in 1912
and republished by Theosophical Publishing House, Ltd., of London
in 1927 and again in 1985. The volume is very much in print and
available through any bookseller in the U.S. and Great
Britain.

I recommend it to all as an interesting
read.

-dp

About the Author

Don Pendleton (1927-1995) is
creator of The Executioner: Mack Bolan Action/Adventure series, Joe
Copp, Private Eye Mystery Thrillers, and the Ashton Ford Psychic
Detective Series.

He also co-wrote, with his
wife, Linda Pendleton, the nonfiction books To Dance With Angels
and Whispers From the Soul: The Divine Dance of Consciousness, and
the crime novel, Roulette.

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