suance of his stern d

some of the occult pr

ght in the nine

come in," said Gentleman Waife. Sophy looked wistfully at the ape

whispered. "I hope so, pre

aid Gentleman Waife, wi

n to ask if I could do anything for ye

n packed. Sophy has the money to discha

hat," said the C

e become a field-marshal. "And so, Merle, you think, if I am a broken-d

you would give me date and place of Sophy's birth that's wh

, please," said

ot?-very

nt to know

h the Cobbler, staring; "I neve

id Waife: "girls don't want to know th

took up the crystal. "Have you looked i

o or thr

what did

said Sophy,-"as long as that

lly, and screwing up one eye, app

u will see if those tw

d if they will giv

"Then you do care to kno

that goes; but don't

g slowly, and in jerks).-"A mist now. Ha!

ned).-"Send it

there's Rugge,-looks ve

d sign that

st; gone. Ha! a young m

ng gentleman-the very young one, I mean-with

pockets! do you see

nterrupting. Ha! he is talking w

her grandfather).-"Th

orner of the lane, by the public-house, two minutes' walk to this door." He took out a great silver watch:

ent and opened the room-door, and stood on the landing-place to listen. Merle appro

t!-the three po

dred times three pounds; th

don't like the epi

e in the crystal: if she had th

).-"Ah! I never thought of that. But if she

mpostor, and of the wickedest kind, inventing lies between earth and them as dwell in the seven spheres

you really think you saw all that

e truth, and the proof is-there-!" R

Cobbler; and Cornelius Agrippa could not

, re-entering the room softly: "I h

cted Vance and Lionel into the Comedian's chamber; there he left