Which also is true of Mr. Chick Watson. He disappeared immediately
after the closing of the Spot, saying that he was going to Bertha
Holcomb's home. No trace has been found of either to date.
Doubtless the reader has noted advertisement in the papers,
appealing to the authorities to report any one of Watson's
description applying for a marriage licence.
As for his two friends, Wendel and Fenton, together with the
Aradna and the Nervina, they and MacPherson and the doctor
absolutely vanished from all the knowledge, either of the
Thomahlia or the earth. The Jarados alone can tell of them.
Mme. Le Fabre, however, feels that she can explain the matter
satisfactorily. Abridged, her theory runs:
"There is but one way to explore the Occult. That way is to die.
"For all that we were so strongly impressed with the reality of
Mr. Watson, I am firmly convinced that he was simply a spirit;
that everything we saw was spirit manifestation.
"Dr. Holcomb and all the rest have simply gone on to another
plane. We shall never see them again. They are dead; no other
explanation will hold. They are spirits."
Giving this version to the public strictly for what it is worth,
the present writers feel it only right to submit the conclusions
reached by Dr. Malloy and concurred in by Drs. Higgins and Hansen,
also, with reservations, by Professor Herold and by Miss Clarke.
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