The Impossible Truth of Evan Ili's Life

Evan Ili's mental sufferings were worse than his physical ones. He was given a large dose of opium and became unconscious, but at noon his sufferings began again. In the morning when he saw first his footman, then his wife, then his daughter, and then the doctor, there every word and movement confirmed to him the awful truth that had been revealed to him during the night. in them he saw himself, all that for which he had lived, and saw clearly that it was not real at all, but a terrible and huge deception which had hidden both life and death. But if that is so, he said to himself, and I am leaving this life with the