An hour later I entered the sanctum of the Argus, to find its owner alone before his littered table.

Her courage had almost evaporated when at last, after a very careful knock at the door, an English footman ushered her into the small and jealously guarded sanctum in which the great man was sitting.

I heard a muttering of voices and a curse or two in the outer cavern, and presently the sergeant entered my sanctum on all fours: "We're bein' flooded out, sir; there's water a foot deep in this place of ours.

" His thoughts were continually for her, and what she would be likely to wish; and, in the evening, when he sat alone in his own sanctum after a hard day with electricians and work-people, he would gaze into the blazing logs and dream.

But as she went she was, on the first instance, caught by her uncle, and taken by him into a little private sanctum behind his official room.

Although I saw abundance of comfortable-looking desks and arm chairs, yet this room seemed rather too large and fine for work, and I found accordingly, after passing a double pair of doors, that there was a sanctum within and beyond this library.

Well, he then and there decided that the day would come when he would walk past every managerial outpost in the city, and invade the sanctum without so much as presenting a visiting-card.