CONJURER. Because God and the demons and that Immortal Mystery that you deny has been in this room to-night. Because you know it has been here. Because you have felt it here. Because you know the spirits as well as I do and fear them as much as I do. SMITH. Well? CONJURER. Because all this would not avail. If I told you the lie I told Morris Carleon about how I did that trick.... SMITH. Well? CONJURER. YOU would believe it as he believed it. You cannot think [_pointing to the lamp_] how that trick could be done naturally. I alone found out how it could be done--after I had done it by magic. But if I tell you a natural way of doing it.... SMITH. Well?... CONJURER. Half an hour after I have left this house you will be all saying how it was done. [CONJURER _buttons up his cloak and advances to_ PATRICIA. CONJURER. Good-bye. PATRICIA. I shall not say good-bye. PATRICIA. Yes. That fairy tale has really and truly come to an end. [_Looks at him a little in the old mystical manner._] It is very hard for a fairy tale to come to an end. If you leave it alone it lingers everlastingly. Our fairy tale has come to an end in the only way a fairy tale can come to an end. The only way a fairy tale can leave off being a fairy tale. CONJURER. I don't understand you. PATRICIA. It has come true. CURTAIN * * * * * _A Selection from the Catalogue of_ G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS [Illustration: Publisher's Mark] Complete Catalogue sent on application New Comedies By LADY GREGORY The Bogie Men--The Full Moon--Coats Damer's Gold--McDonough's Wife _8^o. With Portrait in Photogravure. $1.50 net. By mail, $1.65_ The plays have been acted with great success by the Abbey Company, and have been highly extolled by appreciative audiences and an enthusiastic press. They are distinguished by a humor of unchallenged originality. One of the plays in the collection, "Coats," depends for its plot upon the rivalry of two editors, each of whom has written an obituary notice of the other. The dialogue is full of crisp humor. "McDonough's Wife," another drama that appears in the volume, is based on a legend, and explains how a whole town rendered honor against its will. "The Bogie Men" has as its underlying situation an amusing misunderstanding of two chimney-sweeps. The wit and absurdity of the dialogue are in Lady Gregory's best vein. "Damer's Gold" contains the story of a miser beset by his gold-hungry relations. Their hopes and plans are upset by one they had believed to be of the simple of the world, but who confounds the Wisdom of the Wise. "The Full Moon" presents a little comedy enacted on an Irish railway station. It is characterized by humor of an original and delightful character and repartee that is distinctly clever. G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK LONDON Irish Plays By LADY GREGORY