as they seem to you, but we will take that up in a few minutes. Then he walked over to where GUILT sat alone, head in his hands wearing only a pair of trunks; his bent back showed the red marks of many lashes.

"Oh, my child," said the Administrator, "what has happened to you, and why do you sit so disconsolately head in hands with- out looking up?"

GUILT spoke from his bent over position unable to look the Administrator in the eye.

"I have been punishing myself, your honor, for I too have thought wrong thoughts, behaved in manners not prescribed, and envisioned times and conditions which are not. I know that these matters are not set forth in the GREAT BOOK and I have thereby violated its spirit and purpose and I should be punished for this. I have, therefore, made a contract with one of the EVIL SPIRITS who was at the moment unemployed. Because of the high level of happiness and contentment presently being expressed by the other ASPECTS of LIFE he could find no one over whom he could cast a pall of gloom, so we reached an agreement between us. I allowed him to cast his pall over me and to beat me with lashes. This satisfied him as he was getting bored with nothing to do. And as for me, I began to feel much better after he wrapped me in his cloak of darkness and when I felt the bite of the lash, for now I knew I was being properly chastised for my infractions of the Spirit. As a matter of fact, Sir, I found that under the not very tender ministrations of the Evil Spirit I really became quite contented and...well, you know, Sir, kind of morally vindicated. I didn't miss the play and fun of the other ASPECTS because I knew I was getting what I deserved and this filled me with great satisfaction. I wonder if you recognize the name of the Evil Spirit with whom I have been dealing and who invaded my soul so to speak... it was a sort of Hungarian name. Began with an M....... Maso...ism, or something like that. All EVIL SPIRITS names end in '-ism', you know. Oh yes, I remember now, it was MASO-

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