When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.

When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.

There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?

Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H." It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets.

The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.