ask.

"They will be revealed to you in various ways--sometimes when asleep.
You will receive preliminary instructions as to divination before this
time to-morrow."

"And meanwhile, we shall be in want of money," Curtis remarked.

"No!" the voice replied, "you will not be in want of money. Have you
anything more to ask?"

No one spoke, and the silence that followed was interrupted by a loud
rustling of the wind. The darkness then lifted; but nothing was to be
seen--nothing save the trees and bushes, moon and stars.


FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 16: This is a very sinister sign in astrology, denoting
the presence of evil influences of all kinds.--(_Author's note._)]

[Footnote 17: According to Atlantean ideas these spirits were:--Vice
Elementals; Morbas (or Disease Elementals); Clanogrians (or
malicious family ghosts, such as Banshees, etc.); Vampires;
Barrowvians, _i.e._ a grotesque kind of phantasm that frequents
places where prehistoric man or beast has been interred; Planetians,
_i.e._ spirits inimical to dwellers on this earth that inhabit
various of the other planets; and earthbound spirits of such dead
human beings as were mad, imbecile, cruel and vicious, together with
the phantasms of vicious and mad beasts, and beasts of