I laughed, you know, when I said he looked almost like one of the White People--" Just then my breath caught itself and I stopped.

I began to remember things--hundreds of things.
Angus spoke to me again as quietly as Hector had spoken.
"Neither Jean nor I ever saw Wee Brown Elspeth," he said--"neither Jean nor I.But you did.

You have always seen what the rest of us did not see, my bairn--always." I stammered out a few words, half in a whisper.

"I have always seen what you others could not see?
WHAT--HAVE--I--SEEN ?" But I was not frightened.

I suppose I could never tell any one what strange, wide, bright places seemed suddenly to open and shine before me.