I will give you some private instructions." "But, cher doctor, this previous-existence idea--at what do you arrive ?" "There is much to say for it," said the doctor oracularly.

"It has survived in the belief of all ages.

Who can tell?
That some men in a previous existence may have been goats or apes," continued the doctor, looking at him curiously, "does not seem improbable! From the time of Pythagoras we have known that; but that the individual as an individual ego has been remanded or projected, has harked back or anticipated himself, is, we may say, with our powers of apperception,--that is, the perception that we are perceiving,--is"-- But the Chevalier had fled.

"No matter," said the doctor, "I will see McFeckless." He did.

He found him gloomy, distraught, baleful.