"Some day I shall," rejoined Narvaez significantly, "at present this one serves me tolerably well. I control it thoroughly: you do not manage yours properly: it is your master, Enistor. Ah! you have much to learn." "I have reason to be cross." "No one has any reason to be cross. To lose one's temper simply shows that one is not yet free from ordinary human limitations. However, at your stage of learning I excuse you. It is hard to lose a large income, as you have done." "What, you know----?" "Not by any super-physical means, Enistor," said Narvaez, coolly leaning back in his chair. "I walked to the top of the hill with a field-glass, and saw that you had a visitor. As so few people come here, it is only logical on my part to assume that the man was some messenger sent to tell you of Lady Staunton's death and your own loss." "Well, the news did not come in a letter, as you prophesied," snapped Enistor. "I am not the Pope to be infallible," said Don Pablo dryly, "and the matter is so trivial that I did not examine into things sufficiently to be entirely certain of details." "Trivial to you: not to me!" said the Squire gloomily. "Nonsense! Your possession of that income is only delayed. You have not lost it altogether!" Enistor looked up sharply. "Did you make an invisible third at my interview with Cane?" "I?" Don Pablo shrugged his aged shoulders. "Do you think that I have nothing to do but to waste my time in that way? No! I only say that you will regain the money, because I shall assist you to get it. You must have your price even though it is but a temporary one." "What do you mean by temporary?" asked Enistor unpleasantly. "Any one who works for money, or earthly fame, or earthly power has to surrender what he gains when death comes. But he who labours to acquire super-physical powers as I do--those powers which can dominate men without their knowing, gets what he can never lose, however many the deaths or lives!" "I shall work for that later, Master. At present I require money so as to take my proper position in the world, and sway men at will." "A limited ambition," scoffed Narvaez. "However, what you desire you shall acquire, as you won't let me have your daughter without a price." "Would you do something for nothing yourself, Don Pablo?" "No," said the magician honestly. "I take what I want if I am strong enough to do so. Otherwise I buy what I require. Nothing for nothing and something for something--if there is no other way of getting it. That is my rule." "It is the rule of the majority of mankind." "True, my friend," chuckled Narvaez, settling himself comfortably. "Mankind has a long way to travel before the law of love is learned." "The law of love?" "You give all and ask no return! Think of it: how dull life would be then, Enistor! However, we have argued enough, and my time is valuable. What about your interview with this lawyer? I must have details if I am to assist you."