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The Crushed Flower and Other Stories

CHAPTER VIII
19/19

It is sad to admit that there are people, however, who believe in ghosts and build upon this belief nonsensical theories about certain relations between the world of the living and the enigmatic land inhabited by the dead.

I understand that the human ear and eye can be deceived--but how can the great and lucid human mind fall into such coarse and ridiculous deception?
I asked the jailer: "I feel a strange sensation, as though there were the odour of cigar smoke in my cell.

Don't you smell it ?" The jailer sniffed the air conscientiously and replied: "No I don't.

You only imagined it." If you need any confirmation, here is a splendid proof that all I had seen, if it existed at all, existed only in the net of my eye..


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