The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

THE EQUINOX telegraphed to the Bank to stop any cheques she might draw in the next twelve months, was committing suicide with the murmured apology: “After all, this isn't an hotel "; while " Boy Billy," tastefully costumed for walking in Bond Street as an Egyptian W's, was romping with her third best pal in spite of the broken heart which she had left beneath the boots of Mr. Hener Skene; Mr. Austin Harrison, who had dropped in for a quiet afternoon, was quite failing to grasp the situation created by the Editor herself, who, shaking in every chin, declared rather more than less than aloud that, waiters or no waiters, she meant to marry him, and the gentleman down-stairs could go—my grandmother's hat 1— and—~— She was interrupted by the arrival of a telegraph boy, who delivered a bulky envelope containing the following message— “ Notwithstanding categorical imputations sacramentally integrated similitudes undedicated warrants antecedent Paulopetrine typology casually unworthy hypostaticism predecessorial superincession archidiaconal arch-amphibians osify elpidize redintegration status lymphaticus." “A cipher telegram] How romanticl” cried the Editor, releasing Austin Harrison for the fraction of a second ”Oh no,” said Crowley, "it’s quite plain English; it’s from Arthur Edward Waite. He repents; he comes back to the fold. He begs forgiveness. Osify means‘dare';elpidize, ‘hope’; redintegration, ‘restoration’; status, ‘status.’ ” “ But he says ‘status lymphaticus.’ " 234