But why he should have addressed them to the head of a detective bureau instead of to a college of Oriental research it passes the imagination to conceive.

But as the chauffeur duly reappeared at motor-time in the evening the incident passed unnoticed.
* * * * * It is beyond the scope of the present narrative to trace the progress of Boohooism during the splendid but brief career of the Yahi-Bahi Oriental Society.

There could be no doubt of its success.

Its principles appealed with great strength to all the more cultivated among the ladies of Plutoria Avenue.

There was something in the Oriental mysticism of its doctrines which rendered previous belief stale and puerile.