"She was not useless when she told you where the emerald was to be found," said Theodore calmly, and lounging in his deep chair.
Mr. Colpster looked at Patricia, who was privately amazed at this extraordinary conversation, which dealt in a matter-of-fact way with super-physical things, and laughed at the expression on her face. "I promised to explain one day how I came to learn where the emerald was," he remarked.
Patricia nodded. "Yes, you did, Mr. Colpster. In the train."
"I remember. Well, then, Theodore here put Mara asleep, and told her to look for the jewel. She went unerringly to Japan and saw that it was in the Temple of Kitzuki in the province of Izumo. At the time I did not believe this, but it proved to be true, and the shrine which held it, as Basil wrote home to me, was precisely described by Mara when in her trance."
"But I don't believe in these things," burst out Patricia, staring aghast at what she regarded as gross superstition.
"And the Inquisition did not believe that the earth went round the sun," said Theodore coolly. "But although they forced Galileo to deny that truth, the earth continued to circle the sun and took the disbelieving Inquisitors along with it. Do not measure everything by your own brain, Miss Carrol, for there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your----"
"Oh, I have heard that quotation so often," cried Patricia impetuously; "but nothing can be proved."
"Not to those who only possess physical brains. But those who have eyes can see and those who have ears can hear. To those people Christ appealed."
Patricia laid her delicate hands on her lap despairingly. "I don't know what you are talking about," she observed, with a shrug.
"Well, never mind," Theodore hastened to say, seeing that she was rather annoyed. "Some day you will understand. Just now all you need know is that Mara told us that the emerald was to be found in the Temple of Kitzuki in Japan. That proved to be true, although it was learned in what appears to you to be a nonsensical way. I believe," he fixed her gaze with his keen blue eyes strongly, "I believe that you are psychic yourself."