ful Lorenza Feliciana. Beware! The Empress of Russia had
a certain Joseph Balsamo pursued, who had practised great deception, and
people pretend that he resembles Count Cagliostro. The Empress Catherine
is a good friend and ally of the King of Prussia, and if the happy idea
should occur to me to propose seeking the necromancer here, the Great
Kophta might come a miserable end."

"On the contrary, it would only be a welcome occasion for the Great
Kophta to reveal himself, and hurl his despicable, malicious enemy
into the dust at his feet," replied Cagliostro, calmly. "Try it, you
faithless, fallen daughter of the Invisibles--try to unloose the pack
of my enemies, to recognize that all their yelling and barking does not
trouble the noble stag to whom God has given the whole world for His
forestward that He should rule therein. I have listened to you unto the
end, and I regard your invectives and accusations as not worthy of a
reply or justification, and I laugh at your menaces. But I warn you,
Wilhelmine Enke, defy not the Invisibles, and offend not the Holy
Fathers, by your continued resistance. Turn, misguided child of
sin--turn while there is yet time! In their name I offer you a last
chance, their forbearance is without bounds, and their mercy long
enduring."

"I neither desire your forbearance nor mercy," cried she, proudly. "I
will have no companionship with my enemies, and the Rosicrucians are
such, for Bischofswerder and Woellner both hate me, and would put me
aside. There is no reconciliation where only hostility is possible."

"The heavenly listen not to the voices of the earthly, and prove
themselves, the most noble when the least deserved. They will protect
and watch over you, even against your will, and never will they be deaf
to your cry for aid in the hour of Here is a token of their grace toward
you. Take this ring--do you recognize it?"

Wilhelmine regarded it attentively. "This is the ring which I gave at
the tribute-altar instead of gold, which you desired."

"The Invisibles sent it to you to-day as the precious pledge of their
favor. You shall keep it, and wear it as a token of their heavenly
forbearance, and when you turn back from the erroneous ways into which
the Illuminati have led you, send it to the circle of Berlin directors,
either Bischofswerder or Wollner, and they will come to your rescue.
Farewell! I forgive you all your wicked words, which fall like spent
arrows from the helmet of my