CHAPTER XXIV--A STARTLING PROPOSITION.
The more Mimi thought over the late events, the more puzzled she was.
What did it all mean--what could it mean, except that there was an error of fact somewhere.

Could it be possible that some of them--all of them had been mistaken, that there had been no White Worm at all?
On either side of her was a belief impossible of reception.

Not to believe in what seemed apparent was to destroy the very foundations of belief.

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