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(10) In my room I sat down and tried calmly to reason out the matter. Here was I, Theobald Jack Pansay, a well-educated
Bengal Civilian in the year of grace 1885, presumably sane, certainly healthy, driven in terror from my sweetheart's side by
the apparition of a woman who had been dead and buried eight months ago. These were facts that I could not blink.
Nothing was further from my thought than any memory of Mrs. Wessington when Kitty and I left Hamilton's shop. Nothing
was more utterly commonplace than the stretch of wall opposite Peliti's. It was broad daylight. The road was full of people:
and yet here, look you, in defiance of every law of probability, in direct outrage of Nature's ordinance, there had appeared to
me a face from the grave.

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