The Dream Part I How Harry Mortimer Smith was made Chapter the First The Excursion

In which Sarnac and Sunray, companions of congenial intellect and heart, seek respite amid serene lakes and mountains, encountering a motley company whose discourse and discoveries mingle the pall of ancient catastrophe with the freshness of elemental wilds. There, upon a tranquil plateau beneath golden skies, Sarnac succumbs to slumber and dreams a vivid life long past—an apparition so convincing that it unsettles the boundary between waking and sleeping realities.