That is why I should really like to save him from evil and lead him into the path of truth, but evil thoughts of him did not leave me.

It seemed to me that his object in entering the Brotherhood was merely to be intimate and in favor with members of our lodge.

Apart from the fact that he had asked me several times whether N.

and S.

were members of our lodge (a question to which I could not reply) and that according to my observation he is incapable of feeling respect for our holy order and is too preoccupied and satisfied with the outer man to desire spiritual improvement, I had no cause to doubt him, but he seemed to me insincere, and all the time I stood alone with him in the dark temple it seemed to me that he was smiling contemptuously at my words, and I wished really to stab his bare breast with the sword I held to it.