I laid my fingers on his pulse.

It was beating calmly.
"'You think I am wandering in my mind,' he broke out.

'Stay here tonight--I command you, stay!--and see her as I have seen her.' "I quieted him by promising to do what he had asked of me.

He had still one more condition to insist on.
"'I won't be laughed at,' he said.

'Promise that you will not repeat to any living creature what I have just told you.' "My promise satisfied him.