write of that."
There was a hastily scrawled postscript; I could see him hesitating, then giving way at last to the necessity
of unburdening his mind, dashing off that postscript and rushing the letter away before he could
reconsider-
"I have written that the child was conscious until death. What haunts me is the conviction that she was
conscious after physical death! Let me talk to you."
I nodded with satisfaction. I had not dared to put that observation down in my questionnaire. And if it has
been true of the other cases, as I now believed it must have been, all the doctors except Standish's had
shared my conservatism-or timidity. I called little Anita's physician upon the 'phone at once. He was
strongly perturbed. In every detail his case had paralleled that of Peters. He kept repeating over and