"By George!" he exclaimed, "it's as dark as limbo in there! I
didn't see you at first. But I say, Blessirigton, it's a
beastly shame to have that thunder-cloud barrier shutting off
the sorceress. If she gazes at the crystal, mayn't we have
something to gaze at, too?"
Blessington laughed. "You want too much, Galltry," he said.
"Lady Astrupp understands the value of the unattainable. Come
along, sir!" he added to Loder, drawing him forward with an
energetic pressure of the arm.
Loder responded, and as he did so a flicker of curiosity
touched his mind for the first time. He wondered for an
instant who this woman was who aroused so much comment. And
with the speculation came the remembrance of how she had
assured Chilcote that on one point. at least he was
invulnerable. He had spoken then from the height of a past
experience--an experience so fully passed that he wondered now
if it had been as staple a guarantee as he had then believed.
Man's capacity for outliving is astonishingly complete.
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