The Book of Lies

KE®AAH 3H MANNA At four o’clock there is hardly anybody in Rumpelmayer’s. I have my choice of place and service; the babble of the apes will begin soon enough. *¢Pioneers, O Pioneers !”’ Sat not Elijah under the Juniper-tree, and wept? Was not Mohammed forsaken in Mecca, and Jesus in Gethsemane? These prophets were sad at heart; but the chocolate at Rumpelmayer’s is great, and the Mousse Noix is like Nephthys for per- fection. chestnut-pulp, very velvety seductions. Sail Inot toward LAYLAH within seven days? Be not sad at heart, O prophet; the babble of the apes will presently begin. Nay, rejoice exceedingly; for after all the babble of the apes the Silence of the Night. 85