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THE ACCUSER.
AS Syme strode along the corridor he saw the Secretary standing at the top of a great flight of stairs.

The man had never looked so noble.

He was draped in a long robe of starless black, down the centre of which fell a band or broad stripe of pure white, like a single shaft of light.
The whole looked like some very severe ecclesiastical vestment.

There was no need for Syme to search his memory or the Bible in order to remember that the first day of creation marked the mere creation of light out of darkness.