How my dream came vividly back to me, as I saw him in that attitude! I felt that I knew what he was reading.

He looked up as I entered, and greeted me with a kindly yet grave smile.

I broke silence abruptly.
"Your book is open," I said, "at a passage commencing thus: 'The universe is upheld solely by the Law of Love.

A majestic invisible Protectorate governs the winds, the tides.' Is it not so ?" "It is so," returned Heliobas.

"Are you acquainted with the book ?" "Only through the dream I had of you at Cannes," I answered.