companions. They witnessed an historical event like no other, and the published account is exactly that of the silent observer. No one else but the Ghost-Mistress knew what had happened. Guildenstern, then, or Rosencrantz, confiding to some chronicler engaged on recording dynastic history, spilled the beans. In our hunt for the ghost world of the ancient Middle East, the affair at Endor is of unparalleled importance. Its description, in conjunction with the written Babylonian accounts of necromancy, acquires the status of prime testimony.
