"Oh, I don't know. I'm afraid to sleep alone," I said. "Please, please, let me stay with you."
"Ah'll come and sleep on the couch in your room," she said.
"No, no, I won't go back to that room."
"It ain't ha'nted, chile," declared 'Mandy.
"Oh, I know it isn't," I sobbed; "but, O 'Mandy, I'm afraid!"
IX
Next morning 'Mandy went back with me to my room. There was no one in it. For a moment the thought came to me that perhaps I had suffered from a nightmare. My clothes, everything, I found exactly as I had left them. I went over to the door opening from my room into the laboratory, and then I knew that I had not erred: the door was unlocked. I saw 'Mandy watching me, and I think she guessed the truth, for she said: