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Many Dimensions
by Charles Williams
1931
CONTENTS
THE STONE
THE PUPIL OF ORGANIC LAW
THE TALE OF THE END OF DESIRE
VISION IN THE STONE
THE LOSS OF A TYPE
THE PROBLEM OF TIME
THE MIRACLES AT RICH
THE CONFERENCE
THE ACTION OF LORD ARGLAY
THE APPEAL OF THE MAYOR OF RICH
THE FIRST REFUSAL OF CHLOE BURNETT
NATIONAL TRANSPORT
THE REFUSAL OF LORD ARGLAY
THE SECOND REFUSAL OF CHLOE BURNETT
THE POSSESSIVENESS OF MR. FRANK LINDSAY
THE DISCOVERY OF SIR GILES TUMULTY
THE JUDGEMENT OF LORD ARGLAY
Chapter One
THE STONE
"Do you mean," Sir Giles said, "that the thing never gets smaller?"
"Never," the Prince answered. "So much of its virtue has entered into its outward form that whatever may happen to it there is no change. From the beginning it was as it is now."
"Then by God, sir," Reginald Montague exclaimed, "you've got the transport of the world in your hands."
Neither of the two men made any answer. The Persian, sitting back in his chair, and Sir Giles, sitting forward on the edge of his, were both gazing at the thing which lay on the table. It was a circlet of old, tarnished, and twisted gold, in the centre of which was set a cubical stone measuring about half an inch every way, and having apparently engraved on it certain Hebrew letters. Sir Giles picked it up, rather cautiously, and concentrated his gaze on them. The motion awoke a doubt in Montague's mind.
"But supposing you chipped one