d to the
list--militant suffragettes, strike agitators, hooligans, apaches,
pseudo-humanitarians, religious bigots, misers, all people
obsessed with manias, idiots, epileptic imbeciles and criminal
lunatics. All such may at times be encountered on the lowest
spiritual plane.]

[Footnote 20: Composed of 2 drachms of myrrh, 1/2 oz. of sweet oil,
2 oz. of attar of roses, 1/2 oz. heliotrope and 1/4 oz. of musk.]

[Footnote 21: These words are so arranged as to set in vibration and
loosen the atmosphere, that keeps the spirit incarcerated in the
physical body, and so set the latter free.]

CHAPTER XVI

HAMAR MAKES ADVANCES

The doctors had stated that the tenth day would see the crisis of John
Martin's illness; if he could tide over that period, he might go on
for years without another attack. When the momentous day arrived,
Gladys was simply eating her heart out with suspense. Not a sound was
permitted in the house. The servants, tiptoeing about, hardly ventured
even to exchange glances; the errand boys were waylaid and sent to the
right-about, with a vague notion that if they opened their mouths
their heads would be off; and some one was posted at the garden gate
to deal, in a scarcely less summary manner, with visitors. Indeed, so
fearful was Gladys lest her father should hear Shiel, who had managed
to elude her outpost, that without meaning it, she greeted him curtly,
and, more plainly than politely, gave him to understand that she
wished him elsewhere.

"What have you been saying to Shiel Davenport?" Miss Templeton asked
Gladys, when they met at lunch. "I passed him in the road just now,
and he looked so wretched that, despite his ineligibility, I felt
quite sorry for him. I am sure he is very much in love with you."

"Nonsense," Gladys said, "he is only a boy." But boy though it pleased
her to call him, she knew that he had played a man's part during her
father's illness. Every night he had faithfully performed the role,
she had allotted to him, at the Kingsway Hall, and upon him she was
forced to admit the success of the entertainment, in a large measure,
depended. Without pushing himself, or being the least bit officious,
he had been equally helpful behind the scenes. He had held in check
all those who, taking advantage of her father's absence, were disposed
to dispute her authority and shirk their work--and he had also, on her
behalf, successfully resisted their demand