shaking me: "Ricori-wake-"
The dreadful blankness in his eyes flicked away; their gaze sharpened, was intent upon me. He said,
again in his own voice:
"I am awake, I am so awake-that I will listen to you no more! Instead-listen, you to me, Dr. Lowell. I
say to you-to hell with your science! I tell you this-that beyond the curtain of the material at which your
vision halts, there are forces and energies that hate us, yet which God in his inscrutable wisdom permits to
be. I tell you that these powers can reach through the veil of matter and become manifest in creatures like
the doll-maker. It is so! Witches and sorcerers hand in hand with evil! It is so! And there are powers
friendly to us which make themselves manifest in their chosen ones.
"I say to you-Madame Mandilip was an accursed witch! An instrument of the evil powers! Whore of