"Undoubtedly," replied the other quietly; "for there exists all the time
a continuous connection between the physical body and the Double--a
connection of matter, though of exceedingly attenuated, possibly of
etheric, matter. The wound _travels_, so to speak, from one to the
other, and if this connection were broken the result would be death."
"Death," repeated Maloney to himself, "death!" He looked anxiously at
our faces, his thoughts evidently beginning to clear.
"And this solidity?" he asked presently, after a general pause; "this
tearing of tents and flesh; this howling, and the marks of paws? You
mean that the Double--?"
"Has sufficient material drawn from the depleted body to produce
physical results? Certainly!" the doctor took him up. "Although to
explain at this moment such problems as the passage of matter through
matter would be as difficult as to explain how the thought of a mother
can actually break the bones of the child unborn."
Dr. Silence pointed out to sea, and Maloney, looking wildly about him,
turned with a violent start.
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