When he took his departure, he had quite recovered, and Lilian
Rosenberg had, at last, realized that she loved him.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 23: There is no doubt that Moses inflicted the plagues,
with which he tormented Pharaoh, in this way.]
[Footnote 24: In stage two this might have been performed by
ethereal projection, but Hamar could not resort to this method as
the power of projection had now passed from him.]
CHAPTER XXIV
THE SUBPOENA
A few days after the incident in Margaret Terrace, Shiel had an
inspiration. He was lunching with an old schoolfellow whom, quite by
chance, he had met in Lincoln's Inn, having previously lost sight of
him for many years, and the conversation, which had at first been
confined to the old days, had gradually drifted to what was ever
uppermost in Shiel's mind--namely, the Modern Sorcery Company, _i.e._
Hamar, Kelson and Curtis.
"Did you know," his friend remarked, "that the old statute, introduced
in Henry the Fifth's reign against sorcery, has never been repealed?"
"You don't mean to say so," Shiel cried excitedly--a vague idea
dawning on him. "Tell me all about it."
"Well, that's rather a long order. For one thing, it imposes all kinds
of penalties from capital punishment to fines. For another, it was in
force up to the beginning of George the Third's reign, when the last
case of a person being burned for witchery in England occurred, and
since then it has fallen into disuse.
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