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The Apparition of Sir Rodger de Wanklyn.

vince you that I really do get valuable inspirations from other worlds, but, mind, keep it a strict secret at present."

"All right, I promise you," I murmured placidly. Then I perused carefully the more than extraordinary document he had handed me.

"It is very curious," I said, "if it be one bit true; and if genuine, might be extremely useful. Mind my lips are sealed. But from whom did you obtain this remarkable story?"

"From Sir Rodger de Wanklyn, the Cathedral architect," he replied, and off I went quite full of my queer friend, Greenbracket, and of Annabel Strongthorn, Amos Bradleigh, and his cousin Anklebone, and particularly Rodger de Wanklyn.