Prepare the mystic circle and consult the Amulet.' 'Oh, WHAT a dream!' cried the learned gentleman.

'Dear children, if you love me--and I think you do, in dreams and out of them--prepare the mystic circle and consult the Amulet!' They did.

As once before, when the sun had shone in August splendour, they crouched in a circle on the floor.

Now the air outside was thick and yellow with the fog that by some strange decree always attends the Cattle Show week.

And in the street costers were shouting.