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to a secret infidel apartment, and there, implacable,
immolates him, consenting.
Why was the host (victim predestined) sad?
He wished that a tale of a deed should be told of a deed

not by him should by him not be told.
Why was the host (reluctant, unresisting) still?
In accordance with the law of the conservation of
energy.
Why was the host (secret infidel) silent?
He weighed the possible evidences for and against ritual
murder: the incitations of the hierarchy, the superstition of
the populace, the propagation of rumour in continued
fraction of veridicity, the envy of opulence, the influence
of retaliation, the sporadic reappearance of atavistic
delinquency, the mitigating circumstances of fanaticism,
hypnotic suggestion and somnambulism.
From which (if any) of these mental or physical
disorders was he not totally immune?
From hypnotic suggestion: once, waking, he had not
recognised his sleeping apartment: more than once,
waking, he had been for an indefinite time incapable of
moving or uttering sounds. From somnambulism: once,
sleeping, his body had risen, crouched and crawled in the
direction of a heatless fire and, having attained its

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