ssive
from his secret female accomplice until his return in the evening, and
then he will dispatch his bailiffs in all haste to the hotel to arrest
Count St. Julien, and forward an order to every gate to forbid his
departure. It will be too late, however--he will have already departed."

"Departed!" cried the two gentlemen, frightened. "Will you, then,
forsake us?"

"Hush, my brothers, be quiet!" answered Cagliostro. "I shall have
departed for the profane, but I will remain here for the consecrated
until to-morrow morning. It oft happens that the lofty even must come
down, and the brilliant obscure themselves. To-day I must descend from
my spiritual height, and humble myself in the dust of lowliness. When
the unholy and unconsecrated essay to behold that which they should not
with their earthly eyes; they must be blinded with earthly dust, and for
those which are not worthy of miracles, we must sometimes condescend to
jugglers' tricks. By the latter I will mislead my enemies to-day. How
many gates are there to the city of Berlin?"

"There are nine, master."

"Send immediately messengers around in your circles to order eight
travelling-carriages and sixteen large black trunks. Further, send
me eight confidential discreet men of my height and size, with eight
perukes, exactly the cut of mine. Command four post-horses, with two
postilions for eight different addresses. This is all that is necessary
for the moment."

"All shall be faithfully and quickly accomplished," said Bischofswerder,
humbly. "We will divide the execution of your orders, and there only
remains to appoint the time and place when and where to direct the
postilions."

"All this will follow; forget not, in trifling, earthly things, the
great heavenly circumstances. Summon the consecrated of the highest
degree of your circle to go to-night to the palace of Prince Frederick
William at Potsdam, and under the very eyes of the old freethinking king
we will open to the crown prince the doors of the spiritual world, and
consecrate him to the highest degree. But first the Invisibles shall
speak with him, and announce the heavenly region of the unapproachable.
Finish the preparations, my brothers--fulfil exactly and punctually my
orders, and then come to the hotel to receive my last commands."

CHAPTER XXXI. FUTURE PLANS.

Cagliostro quitted the two confidants, entered his carriage awaiting
him before the door, and drove to the hotel. The host and