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'There is such a place, such a state,' he murmured, 'and it is, it must be accessible.'
He heard the clock in the stables—or was it the church—strike the quarter before midnight.
As he sat in the big chair, Smoke left the table and curled up again on the mat at his feet.
CHAPTER XIV
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Vision or imagination is a representation of what actually exists, really and unchangeably. He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light, than his perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.
—W. B.
It was Smoke who first drew his attention to something near the door by 'padding' slowly across the carpet and staring up at the handle. Paul's eyes, following him, perceived next that the brass knob was silently turning. Then the door opened quickly and on the threshold stood—Nixie. The open door made such a draught that the twenty winds tearing about inside the room almost lifted the mat at his feet. Behind her he saw the shadowy outline of a second figure, which he recognised as Jonah.