The doctor made a quick dash to the door of Sangree's tent, and,
following close at his heels, I peered in and caught a momentary glimpse
of the small, shrunken body lying upon the branches but half covered by
the blankets--the cage from which most of the life, and not a little of
the actual corporeal substance, had escaped into that other form of life
and energy, the body of passion and desire.
By another of those swift, incalculable processes which at this stage of
my apprenticeship I failed often to grasp, Dr. Silence reclosed the
circle about the tent and body.
"Now it cannot return till I permit it," he said, and the next second
was off at full speed into the woods, with myself close behind him. I
had already had some experience of my companion's ability to run swiftly
through a dense wood, and I now had the further proof of his power
almost to see in the dark. For, once we left the open space about the
tents, the trees seemed to absorb all the remaining vestiges of light,
and I understood that special sensibility that is said to develop in the
blind--the sense of obstacles.
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