That night both parties were successful in causing things to happen; and
the morning after Arthwait was securely incarcerated in the Quarantine
Hospital of the city, and the newspapers were paragraphing a suspected case
of Asiatic Cholera.
However, in five days the symptoms abated; the case was declared non-
infectious; and the pallid shadow of the disconcerted sorcerer was restored to
the more congenial atmosphere of his Grimoire. [184]