“I have,” declared Watson.
“In the other world? You can remember?”
“Yes,” again committing himself. “I have seen Avec—in another world. But tell me, before we go on I would have an answer to my question: did anyone precede me?”
“No.”
Watson was nonplussed, but he concealed the fact.
“Are you sure?”
“Quite, my dear sir. The Spot of Life was watched continually from the moment the Rhamda left us.”
“You mean, he and the Nervina?”
“Quite so; she followed him after an interval of a few hours.”
“I know. But you say that no one came out ahead of me. Who was it that guarded this—this Spot of Life? The Rhamdas?”