“Do you think that he will fulfil his promise after his return”?
“Undoubtedly! but why do you wish for his visit”?
“He has promised to initiate me in the mysteries of an occult philosophy. You are perhaps capable of supplying his place.”
“No, my Lord.”
“But you will be able to afford me some information with respect to those illusions by which I have been put to the test?”
“Yes!” the Count replied, after a pause.
“I only desire you to explain to me the more intricate and most important deceptions, for the rest I hope to unfold without your assistance.”
“Most of them you have already discovered by the papers which you have ta--- found in my trunk.”
“How do you know that?” The Duke asked with astonishment.
“I know it from Hiermanfor.”