against the mirror, aren't you? Well, I've had a struggle to thrust aside what I've been taught is reality and
to admit there may be something else just as real. This matter, Lowell, is extra-medical, outside the
science we know. Until we admit that, we'll get nowhere. There are still two points I'd like to take up.
Peters and the Darnley woman died the same kind of death. Ricori finds that they both had dealings with
a Madame Mandilip-or so we can assume. He visits her and narrowly escapes death. Harriet visits her,
and dies as Darnley and Peters did. Reasonably, therefore, doesn't all this point to Madame Mandilip as
a possible source of the evil that overtook all four?"
"Certainly," I answered.
"Then it must follow that there could have been real cause for the fear and forebodings of Harriet. That
there could exist a cause other than emotionalism and too much imagination-even though Harriet were