I have some power over you, my friend, as you have some power over me, for I tell you frankly if you wished me very much to do anything, I should have to do it; and the same applies conversely.

Now, to-night we are, as I believe, going to open a great gate and to see wonderful things, glorious things that will thrill us for the rest of our lives, and perhaps suggest to us what is coming after death.

You will not fail me, will you ?" she continued in a pleading voice.

"If you do I must try alone since no one else will serve, and then I _know_--how I cannot say--that I shall be exposed to great danger.

Yes, I think that I shall lose my mind once more and never find it again this side the grave.