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Rujub, the Juggler

CHAPTER IX
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It was a cottage near Sidmouth, and was correct in every minute detail.

The figure was that of the young lady I married four years afterwards.

Many a time have I seen her standing just like that, as I went along the road to meet her from the little inn at which I was stopping; the very pattern of her dress, which I need hardly say has never been in my mind all these years, was recalled to me.
"Had I been thinking of the scene at the time I could have accounted for it somehow, upon the theory that in some way or other the juggler was conscious of my thought and reflected it upon the smoke--how, I don't at all mean to say; but undoubtedly there exists, to some extent, the power of thought reading.

It is a mysterious subject, and one of which we know absolutely nothing at present, but maybe in upwards of a hundred years mankind will have discovered many secrets of nature in that direction.
But I certainly was not thinking of that scene when I spoke and said the 'past.' I had no doubt that he would show me something of the past, but certainly no particular incident passed through my mind before that picture appeared on the smoke." "The other was almost as curious, Doctor," Captain Doolan said, "for it was certainly you masquerading as a native.

I believe the other was Bathurst; it struck me so; and he seemed to be running off with some native girl.


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