As I said to Mme. Le Fabre, it is a difficult question
to determine, after all, just who are the ghosts. At any rate, I
KNOW"--and he paused for effect--"I know that there are uncounted
millions who look upon us and our workings as entirely
supernatural!
"Remember that what I have to tell you is just as real as your own
lives have been since babyhood.
"It was slightly over a year ago that my last night on the earth
arrived.
"I had gone out for the evening, in the forlorn hope of meeting a
friend, of having some slight taste of pleasure before the end
came.
"For several days I had been labouring under a sort of
premonition, knowing that my life was slowly seeping away and that
my vitality was slipping, bit by bit, to what I thought must be
death. Had I then known what I know now, I could have saved
myself. But if I had done it, if I had saved myself, we would
never have found Dr. Holcomb.
"Perhaps it was the same fate that led me to Harry, that night. I
don't know. Nevertheless, if there is any truth in what I have
learned on the other side of the Blind Spot, it would seem that
there is something higher than mere fate. I had never believed in
luck; but when everything works out to a fraction of a breath, one
ceases to be sceptical on the question of destiny and chance. _I_
say, everything that happened that night was FORCED from the other
side.
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