nowhere with his hands behind his back and studied the creed for three weeks sitting at the feet of those best competent to explain its mysteries then he laughed aloud and went away but the laugh might have been either of devotion or derision when he returned he was without money but his pride was he declared that he knew more about the things in heaven and earth than those who taught him and for this was abandoned altogether his next appearance in public life was at a big in upper india and he was then telling fortunes with the help of three leaden a very dirty old cloth and a little tin box of he told better fortunes when he was allowed half a bottle of but the things which be sending of da invented on the were quite worth the money he was in reduced circumstances among other people s he told the fortune of an englishman who had once been interested in the creed but who later on had married and all his old knowledge in the study of babies and exchange the englishman allowed da to tell a fortune for s sake and gave him five a dinner and some old clothes when he had eaten da professed gratitude and asked if there were anything he could do for his host � in the line is there any one that you love said da the englishman loved his wife but had no desire to drag her name into the conversation he therefore shook his head is there any one that you hate said da the englishman said that there were several men whom he hated deeply very good said da upon whom the and the were beginning to tell only give me their names and i will despatch a sending to them and kill them now a sending is a horrible arrangement first invented they say in it is a thing sent by a and may take any form but most generally about the land in the shape of a little purple cloud till it find the and him it by changing into the form of a horse or a cat or a man without a face it is not strictly a native patent though can if irritated despatch a sending which sits on the breast of their enemy by night and nearly him very few natives care to for this reason let me despatch a sending said da i am nearly dead now with want and drink and but i should like to kill a man before i die i can send a sending anywhere you choose and in any form except in the shape of a man the w be wished to kill but the sending of da partly to soothe da whose eyes were rolling and partly to see what would be done he asked whether a modified sending could not be arranged for � such a sending as should make a man s life a burden to him and yet do him no harm if this were possible he his to give da ten for the job i am not what i was once said da and i must take the money because i am poor to what shall i send it send a sending to lone said the englishman a man who had been most bitter in him for his from the tea cup creed da laughed and nodded i could have chosen no better man myself said he i will see that he finds the sending about his path and about his bed he lay down on the hearth rug turned up the of his eyes shivered all over and began to this was magic or or the sending or all three when he opened his eyes he vowed that the sending had started upon the and was at that moment flying up to the town where lone lives give me my ten said da wearily � and write a letter to lone telling him and all who believe with him that you and a friend are using a power greater than theirs they will see that you are speaking the truth he departed with the promise of some more if anything came of the sending the englishman sent a letter to lone in what he remembered of the of the creed he wrote � i also in the days of what you held to be my have obtained and with has come power then he grew so deeply mysterious that the of the letter could make neither head nor tail of it and was impressed for he the sending of da fancied that his friend had become a fifth a man is a fifth he can do more than and combined lone read the letter in five different fashions and was beginning a sixth interpretation when his bearer dashed in with the news that there was a cat on the bed now if there was one thing that lone hated more than another it was a cat he the bearer for not turning it out of the house the bearer said that he was afraid all the doors of the bedroom had been shut throughout the morning and no real cat could possibly have entered the room he would prefer not to with the creature lone entered the room and there on the pillow of his bed and a white not a little beast but a like with its eyes barely opened and its lacking strength or direction � a that ought to have been in a basket with its mamma lone caught it by the of its neck handed it over to he to be drowned and the bearer four that evening as he was reading in his room he fancied that he saw something moving about on the hearth rug outside the circle of light from his reading lamp when the thing began to he realized that 