I have no doubt in the world of their being bites; but we not must jump to a conclusion that the teeth which inflicted them were human.

It is a strange case, and one which I feel assured must give you all much uneasiness, as, indeed, it gave me; but, as I said before, I will not let my judgment give in to the fearful and degrading superstition which all the circumstances connected with this strange story would seem to justify." "It is a degrading superstition." "To my mind your sister seems to be labouring under the effect of some narcotic." "Indeed!" "Yes; unless she really has lost a quantity of blood, which loss has decreased the heart's action sufficiently to produce the languor under which she now evidently labours." "Oh, that I could believe the former supposition, but I am confident she has taken no narcotic; she could not even do so by mistake, for there is no drug of the sort in the house.

Besides, she is not heedless by any means.

I am quite convinced she has not done so." "Then I am fairly puzzled, my young friend, and I can only say that I would freely have given half of what I am worth to see that figure you saw last night." "What would you have done ?" "I would not have lost sight of it for the world's wealth." "You would have felt your blood freeze with horror.

The face was terrible." "And yet let it lead me where it liked I would have followed it." "I wish you had been here." "I wish to Heaven I had.