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born. Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access
to the incorruptible eon of the gods. Do you not think it,
Stephen? Theosophos told me so, Stephen answered, whom
in a previous existence Egyptian priests initiated into the
mysteries of karmic law. The lords of the moon, Theosophos
told me, an orangefiery shipload from planet Alpha of the
lunar chain would not assume the etheric doubles and these
were therefore incarnated by the rubycoloured egos from
the second constellation.
However, as a matter of fact though, the preposterous
surmise about him being in some description of a doldrums
or other or mesmerised which was. entirely due to a mis-
conception of the shallowest character, was not the case
at all. The individual whose visual organs while the above
was going on were at this juncture commencing to exhib-
it symptoms of animation was as astute if not astuter than
any man living and anybody that conjectured the contrary
would have found themselves pretty speedily in the wrong
shop. During the past four minutes or thereabouts he had
been staring hard at a certain amount of number one Bass
bottled by Messrs Bass and Co at Burton-on-Trent which
happened to be situated amongst a lot of others right op-
posite to where he was and which was certainly calculated
to attract anyone’s remark on account of its scarlet appear-
ance. He was simply and solely, as it subsequently transpired
for reasons best known to himself, which put quite an alto-
gether different complexion on the proceedings, after the
moment before’s observations about boyhood days and the
turf, recollecting two or three private transactions of his