meeting. That accident was caused by sheer terror — the terror of an apparition more awful than any that had gone before.

“Still I persisted — I persisted in my hopeless love. Then followed that unnamed malady which in vain you are seeking to cure, a malady which was accompanied by innumerable and terrifying phenomena. The malady was one of the mind; it robbed me of the desire to live. More than that, it made life intolerable. At last I surrendered. I believe I am a brave man, but it is the privilege of the brave man to surrender without losing honor to an adversary who has proved his superiority. Yes, I surrendered. I cast out love in order that I might live for my art.

“But I was too late. I had pushed too far the enmity of this spectral and unrelenting foe, and