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"Then do you have them at all?"

He hesitated a little

"So alone, especially in the evening, or wondering about things But alhen I aerly

"I can't quite explain," he replied in a slow voice "They coet them, because they fade out, just like a drea; try to tell reat many people whom I have never met Yet I know thes For instance, if I a they will explain it quite clearly, but afterwards I always forget the explanation and a a cloth seems to wipe it out of my mind, just as one cleans a slate"

"Is that all?"

"Not quite Occasionally I meet the people afterwards For instance, Thomas Si, "forgiveso, but you are another I knew it at once, the moment I saw you, and that is what made me feel so friendly"

"How very odd!" she exclaihtful Because, you see--well never mind----"

He looked at her expectantly, but as she said no ain I see places before I really do see the a hillside with great mountain slopes above and below us covered with dark trees Opposite to us also, running up to three peaks with a patch of snow on the centre peak, but not quite at the top" He closed his eyes, and added, "Yes, and there is a village at the botto streailt weathercock with a bird on it Then," he continued rapidly, "I can see the house where I a to live, with the Pasteur Boiset, an old white house oods above and all about it, and the beautiful lake beneath, and beyond, a great arden opposite the front door, like a big cherry tree, only the fruit looks larger than cherries," he added with confidence

"I suppose that no one showed you a photograph of the place?" she asked doubtfully, "for as it happens I know it It is only about two h the woods What ischerry or a so"