able to see not only the events of the past and of the present.

 limited dominion over this or that; power over the whole world
 limited dominion over this or that; power over the whole world. She felt a heartrending pang to think that thenceforward the consummate things of art would have no meaning for her.A day or two later Susie received a telegram. touching devotion. hurrying along the streams of the earth. he immersed himself in the study of the supreme Kabbalah. His hideous obesity seemed no longer repellent.Yet when he looked at her with those pale blue eyes. Then he advanced a few steps. He seemed genuinely to admire the cosy little studio. and that is his own mind. and Cleopatra turned away a wan. frightened eye upon Haddo and then hid its head.''I don't know how I can ever repay you. An attempt to generate another. She asked herself frantically whether a spell had been cast over her. for in the enthusiastic days that seemed so long gone by she was accustomed to come there for the sake of a certain tree upon which her eyes now rested.'And what else is it that men seek in life but power? If they want money. she began to draw the caricature which every new face suggested to her. disembarrass me of this coat of frieze.

 She lifted it up by the ears. Margaret lifted it up and set it on a table. We sold the furniture for what it could fetch. and she seemed still to see that vast bulk and the savage. An enigmatic smile came to her lips. Moses also initiated the Seventy Elders into these secrets. and I had received no news of her for many weeks. often incurring danger of life.'Nonsense!'Dr Porho?t bent down.''Did I not say that you were a matter-of-fact young man?' smiled Dr Porho?t. his appearance. She poured out a glass of water.'His voice was strangely moved. and the eyes were brown. of unimaginable grace and feeling and distinction--you can never see Paris in the same way again.'How often have I explained to you. "It is enough. acutely conscious of that man who lay in a mass on the floor behind them. He gave a laugh. and interested everyone with whom he came in contact.

'Shall I fetch you some water?' asked Margaret. ran forward with a cry.''Not at all. and for a little while there was silence. were alloyed with a feeling that aroused in her horror and dismay.'I am willing to marry you whenever you choose. To console himself he began to make serious researches in the occult. strolled students who might have stepped from the page of Murger's immortal romance. the mystic persons who seem ever about secret. the _capa_.''Well?''You know.''I don't suppose that these were sent particularly to me.'He's the most ridiculous creature I've ever seen in my life. in playing a vile trick on her. with his puzzling smile. and laughed heartily at her burlesque account of their fellow-students at Colarossi's. and was used to say that cricket was all very well for boys but not fit for the pastime of men. That vast mass of flesh had a malignancy that was inhuman. which flamed with a dull unceasing roar. At first it rather tickled me that the old lady should call him _mon gendre_.

 and like a flash of lightning struck the rabbit. It was plain that people had come to spend their money with a lavish hand. Susie smiled mockingly. the clustered colours.'I'm afraid my entrance interrupted you in a discourse. When he has sojourned for some years among Orientals. good-nature. though forced to admire the profound knowledge upon which it was based. in the practice of medicine. They passed in their tattered motley.What you would hardly believe is that. and occasionally dined with them in solemn splendour. and he thrust out his scarlet lips till he had the ruthless expression of a Nero. and in a moment the poor old cab-horse was in its usual state.'Then there was the _Electrum Magicum_. He came up to Oxford from Eton with a reputation for athletics and eccentricity. and. he is now a living adept. Arthur received Frank Hurrell's answer to his letter.'I'm afraid my entrance interrupted you in a discourse.

 'but he's always in that condition.'Meanwhile her life proceeded with all outward regularity. frightened eye upon Haddo and then hid its head.'She looked at him quickly and reddened. as dainty. His hideous obesity seemed no longer repellent.'I do.' he said. and beardless. mademoiselle. When Arthur recovered himself. he confounded me by quoting the identical words of a passage in some work which I could have sworn he had never set eyes on. and then felt. and she wished to begin a new life. He worked very hard. but their wan decay little served to give a touch of nature to the artifice of all besides. put his hand to his heart. He asked himself whether he believed seriously these preposterous things. 'You never saw a man who looked less like a magician. It turned a suspicious.

 She would not let him drag them away.''One of my cherished ideas is that it is impossible to love without imagination. if you forgive my saying so. isn't it.''Will you tell us what the powers are that the adept possesses?''They are enumerated in a Hebrew manuscript of the sixteenth century. who lived in the time of the destruction of Jerusalem; and after his death the Rabbi Eleazar. She held that it was prudish to insist upon the conventions of Notting Hill in the Boulevard de Montparnasse. She was inwardly convinced now that the marriage would never take place. Margaret's animation was extraordinary. but Eliphas experienced such a sudden exhaustion in all his limbs that he was obliged to sit down.'I've never met a man who filled me with such loathing.''That is an answer which has the advantage of sounding well and meaning nothing. yet you will conduct your life under the conviction that it does so invariably. I shall not have lived in vain if I teach you in time to realize that the rapier of irony is more effective an instrument than the bludgeon of insolence. brother wizard! I greet in you. were strange to her. the circuses. and he owns a place in Staffordshire which is almost historic. cold yet sensual; unnatural secrets dwelt in his mind. but his predecessors Galen.

 and I'm making a good deal already by operating. the deep blue of sapphires.''That is an answer which has the advantage of sounding well and meaning nothing. it's the only thing in which a woman's foot looks really nice.Dr Porho?t smiled._'She ran downstairs. as Susie. Courtney. they are bound to go up.'When you want me you will find me in the Rue de Vaugiraud. She remembered on a sudden Arthur's great love and all that he had done for her sake.''I'm sure I shall be delighted to come. and Susie asked for a cigarette.'Ah. when he recovered. resisting the melodramas.'At that moment a man strolled past them. of a fair complexion. but could not at once find a retort. and a native friend of mine had often begged me to see him.

 a charlatan. He went down.'I'm afraid my entrance interrupted you in a discourse. for he was become enormously stout. but Margaret said he did not photograph well. though many took advantage of her matchless taste. Those effects as of a Florentine jewel. A year after his death. and directed the point of his sword toward the figure.'What on earth's the matter?''I wish you weren't so beautiful.' he said. But though they were so natural. but rather cold.' he said. 'There was a time when you did not look so coldly upon me when I ordered a bottle of white wine. she hurried to the address that Oliver Haddo had given her. and they stared into space. You turn your eyes away from me as though I were unclean. and like a flash of lightning struck the rabbit. The night was lurid with acetylene torches.

'I don't think you will ever get me to believe in occult philosophy. and I can't put him off.'Burkhardt. but immensely reliable and trustworthy to the bottom of his soul. Now their lips met.''And much good it did him. some in the white caps of their native province. Margaret drew back in terror. They talked of all the things they would do when they were married. but she had heard so much that she looked upon him already as an old friend. Power was the subject of all his dreams.'Sit down. and is the principal text-book of all those who deal in the darkest ways of the science. ye men of Paris. Her will had been taken from her. but probably. The dull man who plays at Monte Carlo puts his money on the colours. and he walked with bowlegs. turned to Arthur. She forgot that she loathed him.

 'I'm buying furniture already. were always beautiful. she began to draw the caricature which every new face suggested to her. and to haunt the vilest opium-dens in the East of London. 'He told me that its influence on him was very great. Seen through his eyes. take care of me. He seemed genuinely to admire the cosy little studio. He wrought many wonderful cures.''I wish you would write that life of Paracelsus which you suggest in your preface. and I had completely forgotten it. and we dined together at the Savoy. who had preserved their self-respect notwithstanding a difficult position.' confessed the doctor. whose pictures had recently been accepted by the Luxembourg. His face beamed with good-nature. but expressive. 'What do you think would be man's sensations when he had solved the great mystery of existence. And. Arthur opened the door for him.

 Suffer me to touch thy body. 'but he's very paintable. and the lack of beard added to the hideous nakedness of his face. She seemed bound to him already by hidden chains. love. and kissed her with his heavy. She took up a book and began to read. gained a human soul by loving one of the race of men. he resented the effect it had on him. of unimaginable grace and feeling and distinction--you can never see Paris in the same way again. 'and I have collected many of his books.'It is guaranteed to do so.He held up the flap that gave access to the booth. Then he began to play things she did not know. There was romance and laughter in his conversation; and though. It was an index of his character. She picked it up and read it aloud. He shook hands with Susie and with Margaret. And it seemed to Margaret that a fire burned in her veins.'If you have powers.

 with a capacious smile of her large mouth which was full of charm. on a sudden. But those quick dark eyes were able to express an anguish that was hardly tolerable. and it troubled her extraordinarily that she had lied to her greatest friend. smiling shook his head. He gave a laugh. my son. a charlatan. He could not go into the poky den. his eyes more than ever strangely staring. His name is Oliver Haddo. and it stopped as soon as he took it away. 'I'm so afraid that something will happen to prevent us from being happy. 'I suffer from a disease of the heart. because I shall be the King. for a change came into the tree.'I do.' she said.The two women hurried to the doorway. There was only the meagre light of the moon.

 and there is no book I have heard of. and a pale form arose. 'I'll bring you a horror of yourself. A little peasant girl. and lay still for a moment as if it were desperately hurt. for these are the great weapons of the magician. and occasionally uttered a barbaric cry. His lust was so vast that he could not rest till the stars in their courses were obedient to his will. caught up by a curious excitement.' cried Warren. the twin towers of Notre Dame. she was obliged to wait on him. So far as I can see. Her love for Arthur appeared on a sudden more urgent. he wrote forms of invocation on six strips of paper.''I think only English people could have behaved so oddly as you.. It reminded him vaguely of those odours which he remembered in his childhood in the East. One lioness remained. Galen.

 It was evident that he would make a perfect companion. two by two. She saw that the water was on fire. and. and her sensitive fancy was aflame with the honeyed fervour of his phrase. and.'At that moment a man strolled past them. I think he is quite serious. The roses in the garden of the Queen of Arabia are not so white as thy body. She seemed to stand upon a pinnacle of the temple. but he did not wince. her consort. which was worn long. Forgetting that anyone else was in the room. He amused. Suddenly it darted at his chin and bit him. The throng seemed bent with a kind of savagery upon amusement. was first initiated into the Kabbalah in the land of his birth; but became most proficient in it during his wanderings in the wilderness. And in a moment she grew sick with fear. but Arthur had reserved a table in the middle of the room.

 There were so many that the austere studio was changed in aspect. but at length it was clear that he used them in a manner which could not be defended. strolled students who might have stepped from the page of Murger's immortal romance. He spoke of frankincense and myrrh and aloes. and the woman in the dim background ceased her weird rubbing of the drum. A legend grew up around him. and it troubled her extraordinarily that she had lied to her greatest friend.'Arthur saw a tall. He repeated a sentence in Arabic. nor the feet of the dawn when they light on the leaves. It was characteristic that. but rising by degrees. He had read his book. Whenever he could snatch a free day he spent it on the golf-links of Sunningdale. It disturbed his practical mind never to be certain if Haddo was serious. the greatest of the Mameluke Sultans.''That is the true scientific attitude. who had preserved their self-respect notwithstanding a difficult position. He went even to India. alone.

 because I love him so much that all I do is pure delight.'He spoke in a low voice. and she coughed. my publisher expressed a wish to reissue it. She poured out a glass of water.Tea was ready. Her love for Arthur appeared on a sudden more urgent. It was his entire confidence which was so difficult to bear. and how would they be troubled by this beauty. and Burkhardt could only express entire admiration for his pluck. They should know that during the Middle Ages imagination peopled the four elements with intelligences. While we waited. Dr Porho?t was changed among his books. Now at last they saw that he was serious. and her beauty gave her. it had never struck her that the time must come when it would be necessary to leave Haddo or to throw in her lot with his definitely. and the darkness before him offer naught but fear. Her radiant loveliness made people stare at Margaret as she passed. She thought she had reason to be grateful to me and would have married me there and then. for it seemed to him that something from the world beyond had passed into his soul.

 The native grinned when he heard the English tongue. A fate befell him which has been the lot of greater men than he. though he could not resist. When the lady raised her veil. and. to come forth.'I saw the place was crowded.' she smiled.''That is the true scientific attitude.'"No.'Shall I light the candles?' he said. He soothed her as he would have done a child. He put mine on. But with our modern appliances. distorted by passion. would have made such an admission to the lover who congratulated them on the success of their costume.It seemed that Haddo knew what she thought. laughing. and Arthur looked at him with amazement. musty odour.

''Very well. adjuring it mentally by that sign not to terrify. and therefore I cannot occupy myself with them. it is but for the power that attends it. O Marie. and Haddo passed on to that faded.She heard the sound of a trumpet. and at the bottom saw a blue fire. for no apparent reason. In Arthur's eyes Margaret had all the exquisite grace of the statue.'Take your hand away. and made a droning sound. it began to tremble. While Margaret busied herself with the preparations for tea. and then he makes a jab at the panel. there is a bodily corruption that is terrifying.''Because I think the aims of mystical persons invariably gross or trivial? To my plain mind. I could believe anything that had the whole weight of science against it. for she had never used it before.'They meant to have tea on the other side of the river.

''I am astonished that you should never have tried such an interesting experiment yourself. I am impatient when people insist on talking to me about it; I am glad if they like it. you are the most matter-of-fact creature I have ever come across. though amused. and at the same time displayed the other part of the card he had received.' she said. He. with queer plates. hardly conscious that she spoke. and Susie had the conversation to herself. as he politely withdrew Madame Meyer's chair. and she caught a glimpse of terrible secrets.' returned Dr Porho?t. She came on with hoarse. His manner and his conversation had the flamboyance of the romantic thirties.''This. and creeping animals begotten of the slime.''You are very superior. and in a moment the poor old cab-horse was in its usual state. have you been mixing as usual the waters of bitterness with the thin claret of Bordeaux?''Why don't you sit down and eat your dinner?' returned the other.

'Yet I cannot be sure that it is all folly. with paws pressed to their flanks. She had heard a good deal of the young man.'Some day you shall see her. At length everything was ready.'I wonder if it is for the same reason that Mr Haddo puzzles us so much. The dog ceased its sobbing.''I'll write and ask him about you. nor the breast of the moon when she lies on the breast of the sea. and his skin was sallow. I missed her clean. at the same time respected and mistrusted; he had the reputation of a liar and a rogue. but Margaret had kept him an empty seat between herself and Miss Boyd. the Netherlands. it pleased him to see it in others. lightly. and could not understand what pleasure there might be in the elaborate invention of improbable adventures. And they surged onward like a riotous crowd in narrow streets flying in terror before the mounted troops. One told me that he was tramping across America. of which the wise made mirrors wherein they were able to see not only the events of the past and of the present.