CHAPTER 4.III.
Man is the eye of things .-- Euryph, "de Vit.

Hum." ...There is, therefore, a certain ecstatical or transporting power, which, if at any time it shall be excited or stirred up by an ardent desire and most strong imagination, is able to conduct the spirit of the more outward even to some absent and far-distant object .-- Von Helmont.
The rooms that Mejnour occupied consisted of two chambers communicating with each other, and a third in which he slept.

All these rooms were placed in the huge square tower that beetled over the dark and bush-grown precipice.

The first chamber which Glyndon entered was empty.
With a noiseless step he passed on, and opened the door that admitted into the inner one.

He drew back at the threshold, overpowered by a strong fragrance which filled the chamber: a kind of mist thickened the air rather than obscured it, for this vapour was not dark, but resembled a snow-cloud moving slowly, and in heavy undulations, wave upon wave regularly over the space.