I stared at her, and then I took up a folded newspaper and threw it at
her. My motive in so doing was to frighten her who had frightened my
wife so much. Courtesy such a creature need not expect from me, being,
as her villainous countenance proved, one of the criminal class. The
newspaper fell upon the floor, after apparently going through the
figure, and there was a vacuum where it had been. I was not much shaken,
however, although my theory of a human trickster dressed like a woman
seemed overturned."
"Did you tell Mrs. Henniker what you had seen?"
"Naturally I did. At this period we talked of nothing else. She saw the
apparition twice herself. Once she entered our dressing-room and saw the
figure bending over a sleeping child (it faded as she looked); another
time she was with me in the drawing-room, when she laid down her book
and whispered, 'See, see, near the door!' There, sure enough was the
appearance that had visited me in the study in clear daylight. I did not
make her out quite as distinctly now because our candles did not light
up that end of the long room, or my older eyes were not as good as
Angela's.
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