ians. You are both wrong and both right. It is
well to be lenient as brother Theophilus, but that must have its limit,
and the night wanderer who stands upon the brink of a precipice must
be awakened, but not with violent words, or calling loudly his name,
because a sudden awakening would only hasten his fall. Slowly and
carefully must he be roused; as one would by degrees accustom the
invalid eyes to the mid-day, so must the light of virtue and knowledge
dawn upon the eyes, ill from vice, with prudent foresight. Hear my
proposal. Summon the three circles of the brothers of the highest degree
to a sitting to-night. You have told me that the prince desires to
belong to the seeing ones, and be in communion with the spiritual world.
This night his wish shall be fulfilled, to see the spirits, and a new
future shall rise before him. My time is limited; let us arrange every
thing, for the voices of the Invisibles already call me home."

At this instant a modest knocking was heard at the door, which was
repeated at different intervals.

"It is my servant," said Bischofswerder, "and he has undoubtedly an
important communication for me."

He opened the door, speaking with the person outside in a low tone, and
returned with a sealed note.

Cagliostro, apparently, was lest in deep thought and indifferent to the
conversation without, directing quietly and calmly, in the mean time,
a few questions to Wollner, and, as it seemed, listening only to his
answers. Yet as Bischofswerder approached him, saying, "it is, indeed,
important news; I have proof in hand that--" he interrupted him with a
commanding motion, and finished the broken sentence: "--that Wilhelmine
Enke is a powerful adversary, having connection with the court, as this
letter from her is directed to Minister Herzberg. Is it not this that
you would say, Theophilus?"

Astonished, he replied in the affirmative, begging his master to read
it.

"It is unnecessary," replied Cagliostro, waving back the letter; "to the
seeing eyes every thing is revealed. This person announces to Minister
von Herzberg that the deceiver and necromancer, Cagliostro, in his
flight from Mittau, has visited her to menace her. She begs protection
for herself and an arrest for me; that I am known as Count Julien, at
the hotel King of Portugal, at Berlin, and that haste is necessary."

Both gentlemen glanced astonished and enraptured, first at the sealed
epistle and then at the great Magus.

"O