I do not think I need dwell on our subsequent adventures in London
and in Wales, for they have all been amply and faithfully set forth
in the narrative of "Theodore King" himself. In his manuscript he
mentions my name on many occasions in kindly but perhaps not always in
highly flattering terms. Not that I rebel, for I am now well aware how
often my petty scruples and my lack of perception must have irritated
the Superior Being whom I was thus privileged to assist during his
brief sojourn on our Earth. Nor shall I attempt here to analyse the
causes that operated to attach me so closely to the service of one
who drew first my interest, then my devotion, and lastly my whole
fund of loyalty. Imagine me then at an early stage of our strange
alliance as placing myself wholly at the disposal of this stranger,
whose semi-divine attributes I was quick to perceive and acknowledge;
and merely venturing at certain times to proffer such humble aid in
mundane details and trifles as would naturally fall beneath the notice
of a King of Meleager, transported to Earth and torn with celestial
anguish as to his future duties towards his relinquished realm. And in
this blind mental servitude I refuse to see anything dishonourable;
on the contrary, my feeling is that of a man who has for a few moments
been permitted of grace so to clutch at the fringe of the robe of the
Superhuman; as a child of Earth who has succeeded in tracking the
rainbow to its hidden source and bathed his hands in its fabled shower
of golden dew.
Whither our strange alliance was tending or what would eventuate with
regard to my companion, I purposely refrained from debating even with
myself. I merely stood aside and awaited all developments with perfect
calm. I never sought to pry into the nature of the visits of the
outlandish wanderers who pursued our steps both in London and at our
quiet Welsh retreat. Yet I was fully aware of the gradual unravelling
of some wondrous skein of Fate, wherewith I had only an indirect and
subsidiary interest. For "Theodore King" was usually silent, and it was
only during his last days prior to his final disappearance that he ever
exhibited the smallest desire to take me into his confidence, and even
then his statements to me were vague, and rather hinted at services to
be rendered by me in the future than at an elucidation of the past.
At the same time I was not overtaken by surprise when the final event
supervened, and I awoke one morning to find my Superior Being flown
from this Earth whereon he felt so little inclination to linger.