He looked up. "At her wish, I de
stroyed It."
You did!" I exclaimed, nil the.
journalist In mo on edge. "Well, If
It really was a reproduction ot Delor
mel's I can only say It Is a great pity."
He tossed off another glnss. "No,
Caxton had never seen Delormel's
book."
"Then It was a translation of the
esoteric manuscripts on which Delor
mel's book was founded?"
"No, Caxton had never seen them
either."
"Hut," I protested, "If Caxton's
book was not derived from Delormel's
It must at least have come from the
same source."
"So It did."
"Well, then!"
"Hut that source Is the fourth di
mension." "Nonsense," I was sufllclently un
civil to exclaim. "The fourth dimen
sion Is merely a mathematical hy
pothesis." He blinked at me. "To the mathe
matician, certainly. Hut not to the
mystic. To the latter It is an actual
plane in which any one may function,
only to do so presupposes a develop
ment of the Inner senses which en
ables the percipient to respond to
other vibrations and, in so doing, to
cognize matters to which the rest of
us are blind. That Is what Sweden
borg did, what Delormel did; Caxton
as well. Caxton saw the past and the
future. Hut It was too much for him."
It was too much for me. Steadily
Mores had been drinking, quite as
though the bottle were his own, and,
though I did not in the least object to
that, I wondered could the liquor
have gone to his head.
"Yes," he resumed, "narcosis re
sulted and death ensued."
"You did not advance that at tho
trlnl," I got in at him.
EXCITEDLY', with a gesture, he par
ried the thrust. "It would have
been very foolish of me If I had. What
jury would accept such a story?
Even otherwise I did not know of it.
At tho tlmo I did not know what had
caused Caxton's death. Afterward I
believed that Sherwood was right. I
believed that It was venom that killed
him. In any event I know now that It
was that which killed her, or rather I
know that I was the viper. Yes, for
my eternal perdition, that is tho
truth. A woman gentler than .ludith
never lived. At llrst to be but near
her was rapture to me. Hut, as you
will realize, the trial had put its mark
on her. Vibrant and supersensitive as
she was, what else coald one expect?
The strain of the proceedings, tho hor
ror of them all, were such that when
she put her hand In mine, it was as
though she were a child, beaten and
abused, who turned to any one, even
to a stranger, for protection. Hut I!
I misunderstood. I thought It was
not only her hand but her heart she
was giving me. Y'et what heart could
she havo had save one too battered
and broken to respond to any throbs
of mine? I did not appreciate that.
What I began to appreciate was Sher
wood's arraignment in which he pic
tured her as insatiable of plcasuro
and, in pursuit of It, hesitating at
nothing, even at crime. It seemed to
me that if she did not care for me, she
might treat mo as perhaps she had
treated Caxton. In my cups I said as
much and It was t,ha'tthat killed her.
There are men who in their cups be
come rascals, rascals do you hear me?
And in my cups, my conduct was such
was such my conduct my cups
my "
It trailed away. Mores, his mouth
half open, wjis staring, not at me, but
over and beyond, and In pitying him
the tortures of his unavailing re
morse, I pitied too tho fair and
wretched creature who had been har
ried, and doubly harried, to her death.
"Tho motor has come," some ono
suddenly and sharply called. "Why
are n't you ready?"
I turned. In tho doorway behind
mo was tho woman whom I had seen
earlier that day. She was tall, stout,
veiled as before.
As she spoke, she strode toward us
I stood up, Mores did also.
"I will get my hat," he nbashedly
told her.
Hut the woman must havo noticed
the bottle, for at once sho angrily nd
dressed me. "You havo been enter
taining my husband and I had or
dered, I had given strict Instruc
tions "
"Your husband !" I exclaimed. I
looked about. Mores had sidled away.
"1 thought he told mo "
Sho cut me short. "He has been
romancing as usual I suppose. That
is your fault. Since the panic he has
not been what ho was and, If he
drinks, ho don't know what ho says
and does n't care. Kor that reason I
had arranged that ho was not to have
anything."
"I am sorry," I said. "I did not
know. I have not seen him for a long
time, not since a trial in which "
I got no further. She had raised
her veil and at sight of her face I
gasped. It was tho face of a woman
vulgar and obese, a face that time had
coarsened nnd temper had marred, yet
one which none the less instantly I
recognized and It was then that I
gasped.
There, metamorphosed, I Judged, by
Mores; deteriorated, I could but as
sume, by his atmosphere ; transformed
by association with him from phan
tom into ogress; there, with his own
bulldog look in her eye, before mo
Judith Caxton stood.
A -moment only. Abruptly tho veil
fell. With, a toss of tho head, she
turned, while. I, astoundedly, beneath
my breath, exclaimed:
"O temporal 0 Mores!"
I found but that. Y'et later on, dur
ing tho evening, when I had had a
glass or three of Sham Shoo, slowly
but surely I began to appreciate what
visions may come, not merely from
Hcnares and tho fourth dimension, but
also and particularly from the wines
of Cathay.
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