Many Dimensions, Charles Williams [black authors fiction TXT] 📗

such a ruling would indeed be to go against the whole

nature of the Stone and the work they had done together. For here was

this lesser work, and if it were worth doing—as it might be—and if

without someone to supply necessary detail it would probably not be

done—was not this also as much in the nature of organic law as the

operation of the

Stone?…

 

“Besides,” Lord Arglay said aloud, “in a year’s time, child, I should

be finding an excuse. I think I will not find an excuse. The way to the

Stone is in the Stone, and I will choose to do this thing rather than

to leave it undone or to be driven back to it by the weariness of

time.”

 

He walked across to the telephone, looked at it distastefully, and

turned the pages of the directory.

 

With his hand on the receiver, “Also,” he said, “though the King wrote

Ecclesiastes, yet the Courts gave judgement in Jerusalem. This, I

suppose, is Ecclesiastes…. Paddington 84…. Is that the Lancaster

Typewriting Agency?”

 

THE END