They come as though someone else were planning them for me." "Well, well! I think I can certainly be of use to you in this matter as in others.

I understand your temperament thoroughly.

And now let me give you my first prescription." He went to a corner of the room and lifted from the floor an ebony casket, curiously carved and ornamented with silver.

This he unlocked.
It contained twelve flasks of cut glass, stoppered with gold and numbered in order.

He next pulled out a side drawer in this casket, and in it I saw several little thin empty glass tubes, about the size of a cigarette-holder.