"'See thou take the season,'" said the voice, "'and get her while it is yet time. If ye let the harvest pass, ye shall desire to gather and shall not be able.'"
"Take pity on mine infirmities, and make it plain," supplicated the Doctor, who now began to fear the usual evasions and disappointments.
"'Before I go,'" replied the vision, "'I will not be hidden from thee. Read thy lesson.'"
"I read, 'Take common Audcal' and so on."
"'What is Audcal?' inquireth the spirit."
"Alas! I know not; but thou knowest."
"'It is gold, and Dlasod is sulphur.'"
"Take also, it says, Lulo of Red Roxtan."
"'Roxtan is pure and simple wine in herself, and Lulo is her mother.'"
"There is yet in these words no slight ambiguity."