What, then, shall we do ?" "Thy saying is near akin to blasphemy, Neb-Anat," he murmured in reply, "and yet there may be a deep meaning in it.

Nevertheless, to-night, nay, this hour, the Master must know of what we have seen." They walked along, conversing in murmurs, as far as Waterloo Bridge, then they turned and crossed it and walked down Waterloo Road into the Borough Road, and then turned off into a narrow, grimy street which ended in a small court whose three sides were formed of wretched houses, upon which many years of misery, poverty, and crime had set their unmistakable stamp.

They crossed the court diagonally and entered a house in the right-hand corner.

They went up the worn, carpetless stairs with a rickety handrail on one side and the torn, peeling paper on the other, and stopped before a door which opened on to a narrow landing on the first floor.

Pent-Ah knocked with his knuckles on the panel, first three times quickly, and then twice slowly.