e why
Ethan's prayer should have cured him."

The Professor was momentarily posed. He looked disconcerted, took off
his glasses and put them on again, and at length muttered something
about storm-wind dissipating the miasma in the air and events being mere
coincidence.

* * * * *

The house was never again visited by the Dark Presence. Phantom or
fancy, the horror was gone as if it never had brooded about the place.
Desire Locke is a fatal companion only to my heart.

But whether all this is so because the lake is drained and the Shetland
pony of a young Vere browses over the green pasture that was once a
miasmic swamp; or whether it is so for more subtle, wilder reasons, no
one can say. I, recalling that colossal Barrier I visioned as closed and
a certain cleaving arrow of light, must at least call the coincidence
amazing.

As I have said, my wife and I, Ethan Vere and Bagheera the cat have an
understanding between us.

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