They apparently have a theory that the indefinable psychic gift that they call magic, and which we might designate psychicism, can be acquired by accosting the soul of a murdered man in a burial ground at midnight.

To be sure, until now they had always shared and shared alike, but here was the first great lump of good-luck that had ever fallen in his way, and he was not for spoiling it by cutting it in two to give half to a poor beggar-man such as his brother.

So many things, however, are a genuine heartbalm like the prickles of the Pleiades rising on the night.

To be tangent to a circle or arc, a line must touch the circle or arc at only one point, and a line drawn from the center of the circle or arc must be perpendicular to the tangent line at the point of tangency. (See Figure 6.82.)