silence seemed…seemed…to be sucked away.
"And then something like a wave of darkness swept over me. I went down under it. Before it swept over
me I heard the clock strike two.
"When I awakened again…or came out of my faint…or, if it was just a dream, when I awakened…I
turned to John. He lay there…so still! I touched him…he was cold…so cold! I knew he was dead!
"Dr. Lowell…tell me what was dream and what was real? I know that no doll could have killed John!
"Did he reach out to me when he was dying, and did the dream come from that? Or did I…dreaming…kill
him?"
CHAPTER XII: TECHNIQUE OF MADAME MANDILIP
There was an agony in her eyes that forbade the truth, so I lied to her.