No, we have to carry our secrets with us." "By-the-bye," Tavernake asked, "what are you a professor of ?" "Of the hidden sciences, sir," was the immediate reply.

"Phrenology was my earliest love.

Since then I have studied in the East; I have spent many years in a monastery in China.

I have gratified in every way my natural love of the occult.

I represent today those people of advanced thought who have traveled, even in spirit, for ever such a little distance across the line which divides the Seen from the Unseen, the Known from the Infinite." He took a long draught of champagne.