Do what comes into your mind, and even if you seem to fail, fear nothing."_ I sat up on the old vrouw's bed, and felt that some mysterious change had come over me.

I was no longer the same man.

My doubts and terrors had gone; my hand was like a rock; my heart was light.

I knew that I should kill those three vultures.

Of course the story seems absurd, and easy to be explained by the state of my nerves under the strain which was being put upon them, and for aught I know that may be its true meaning.