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He had for some years past been engaged in the task of writing a stupendous work on Pre-Zoroastrian Theogonies, in which, it is to be supposed, Ul-Jabal acted somewhat in the capacity of secretary. But I will give verbatim the extracts from his diary: 'June 11. This is my birthday. Seventy years ago exactly I slid from the belly of the great Dark into this Light and Life. My God!
But what kind of pocket? I think you will agree with me, that male garments, admitting of the designation "gown," have usually only outer pockets large, square pockets, simply sewed on to the outside of the robe. But a stone of that size must have made such a pocket bulge outwards. Ul-Jabal must have noticed it.
Can he imagine that I shall not recover my precious gem, my stone of Saul? 'June 20. Ah, Ul-Jabal my brave, my noble Son of the Prophet of God! He has replaced the stone! He would not slay an aged man. The yellow ray of his eye, it is but the gleam of the great thinker, not not the gleam of the assassin. Again, as I lay in semi-somnolence, I saw him enter my room, this time more distinctly.
Ham would reach this person before midnight, and understanding that the matter was one of life and death, he would assuredly do your bidding. As I was writing the note suggested by Zaleski, I turned and asked him: 'From whom shall I say that the danger is to be expected from the Indian? 'From Ul-Jabal, yes; but by no means Indian Persian.
Marvellous to tell, the traitor, Ul-Jabal, has now placed another stone in the Edmundsbury chalice also identical in nearly every respect with the original gem. This, then, was the object of his entry into my room yesterday.
A notable drowsiness has settled on my brain a drowsiness in which thought, though slow, is a thousandfold more fiery-vivid than ever. Oh, fair goddess of Reason, desert not me, thy chosen child! 'June 18. Ul-Jabal? that man is the very Devil incarnate! 'June 19. So much for my bounty, all my munificence, to this poisonous worm.
Still, when the clear necessity to murder the clear means of gaining the stone presents itself to Ul-Jabal, he does not hesitate a moment indeed, he has already made elaborate preparations for that very necessity. And when was it that this necessity presented itself? It was when the baronet put the false stone in the pocket of a loose gown for the purpose of confronting the Persian with it.
But after this last replacement, the stone assumes its final hue of white, and thus the baronet is led to think that two stones have been substituted by Ul-Jabal for his own invaluable gem. All this while the gem was lying serenely in its place in the chalice. And thus it came to pass that in the Manor-house of Saul there arose a somewhat considerable Ado about Nothing.
But we are met with something more extraordinary still when we come to the last stone, the white one I shall prove that it was white which Ul-Jabal placed in the cup. Is it possible that he had provided two substitutes, and that he had engraved these two, without object, in the same minutely careful manner?
The last days I have passed in carefully searching the grounds, with the lens as before. No sign anywhere of the grass having been disturbed. Yet my lands are wide, and I cannot be sure. The burden of this mighty task is greater than I can bear. I am weaker than a bruised reed. Shall I not slay my enemy, and make an end? 'July 8. Ul-Jabal has been in my chamber again!
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