"My Word to-day is _magic_.

I'd not give it to any but you, and I drop my voice in saying it.

I'll sail on through magic and against magic, for I have Help from Above! But I'll not lay a fearsome word among those who are not so accorded! All say India hath high magic, and the Grand Khan takes from that country his astrologers and sorcerers.

I have read that at Shandu, if there be long raining, they will mount a tower by the palace and wave it back, so that the falling rain makes but a pleasant wall around the king's fair garden that itself rests in sunshine.

Also that without touching them they cause the golden flagons to fill with red wine and to move through air, with no hand upon them, to the king's table.