You were right in supposing that you were in some danger--and the danger isn't over." Harding felt a shiver.

He had the repugnance of the healthy minded man of affairs from any form of meddling with what he vaguely thought of as the occult; but in that remote, grim solitude he could not scoff at it.
"Understand this!" he said curtly.

"I mean to save my partner; I've staked my life on doing so.

But I've said enough.

You're coming with me--now--and if you make any attempt to rouse your friends, you'll have a chance to learn something about the other world at first hand a few seconds afterward." Clarke saw that it was not an idle threat.