What this spell may have been I am quite unable to explain, but I presume that in a dim and unknown way she connected this effigy with her own lost infant and that while she held and tended it her intellect remained in abeyance.

If so, she must also have connected its destruction with the death of her own child which, strangely enough, it will be remembered, was likewise killed by an elephant.

The first death that occurred in her presence took away her reason, the second seeming death, which also occurred in her presence, brought it back again! Secondly, from the moment of the destruction of her boy in the streets of the English country town to that of the shattering of the Ivory Child in Central Africa her memory was an utter blank, with one exception.
This exception was a dream which a few days later she narrated to Ragnall in my presence.

That dream was that she had seen him and Savage sleeping together in a native house one night.

In view of a certain incident recorded in this history I leave the reader to draw his own conclusions as to this curious incident.