Satan was terrible to the Middle Ages--" "And to the modern." "What do you mean ?" That Satanism has come down in a straight, unbroken line from that age to this." "Oh, no; you don't believe that at this very hour the devil is being evoked and the black mass celebrated ?" "Yes." "You are sure ?" "Perfectly." "You amaze me.

But, man! do you know that to witness such things would aid me signally in my work?
No joking, you believe in a contemporary Satanistic manifestation?
You have proofs ?" "Yes, and of them we shall speak later, for today I am very busy.
Tomorrow evening, when we dine with Carhaix.

Don't forget.

I'll come by for you.

Meanwhile think over the phrase which you applied a moment ago to the magicians: 'If they had entered the Church they would not have consented to be anything but cardinals and popes,' and then just think what kind of a clergy we have nowadays.