Stapleton?"
"Yes; but you see we're not sensitives. And even I--"
"Yes?"
"Well, even I feel sometimes rather overcome.... Mr. Baxter, do you
quite realize what it all means?"
"I think so. To tell the truth--"
He stopped.
"Yes; but the thing itself is really overwhelming.... There's--there's
an extraordinary power sometimes. You know I was with Maud Stapleton
when she saw her father--"
She stopped again.
"Yes?"
"I saw him too, you know.... Oh! there was no possibility of fraud.
It was with Mr. Vincent. It--it was rather terrible."
"Yes?"
"Maud fainted.... Please don't tell her I told you, Mr. Baxter; she
wouldn't like you to know that. And then other things happen sometimes
which aren't nice. Do you think me a great coward? I--I think I've got
a fit of nerves tonight."
Laurie could see that she was trembling.
"I think you're very kind," he said, "to take the trouble to tell me
all this. But indeed I was quite ready to be startled. I quite
understand what you mean--but--"
"Mr. Baxter, you can't understand unless you've experienced it. And,
you know, the other day here you knew nothing at all: you were not
conscious. Now tonight you're to keep awake; Mr.
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