29/35 Isolated facts, doubts, suspicions, conjectures, give way to a homogeneity which is convincing. He did not go through any process of explanation or limitation, but spoke right out at once to the point, and fearlessly like a man: "That settles me! There is in activity some Force that needs special care. If we all go on working in the dark we shall get in one another's way, and by hampering each other, undo the good that any or each of us, working in different directions, might do. It seems to me that the first thing we have to accomplish is to get Mr.Trelawny waked out of that unnatural sleep. That he can be waked is apparent from the way the Nurse has recovered; though what additional harm may have been done to him in the time he has been lying in that room I suppose no one can tell. |