"That's so--that's a good comparison.
You're not so--" "And now this Ostrog--has suddenly revolutionised the world by waking the Sleeper--whom no one but the superstitious, common people had ever dreamt would wake again--raising the Sleeper to claim his property from the Council, after all these years." The old man endorsed this statement with a cough.

"It's strange," he said, "to meet a man who learns these things for the first time to-night." "Aye," said Graham, "it's strange." "Have you been in a Pleasure City ?" said the old man.

"All my life I've longed--" He laughed.

"Even now," he said, "I could enjoy a little fun.
Enjoy seeing things, anyhow." He mumbled a sentence Graham did not understand.
"The Sleeper--when did he awake ?" said Graham suddenly.
"Three days ago." "Where is he ?" "Ostrog has him.

He escaped from the Council not four hours ago.