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greater and greater, and he determines to see the Devil
again.

The upshot of it all is that the Devil turns out to have
been Christ who has a dual life and appears sometimes as
Christ and sometimes as the Devil.*

* Butler gave this as a subject to Mr. E. P. Larken who made it into
a short story entitled " The Priest's Bargain/' which appeared in the
Pall Mall Magazine, May, 1897.