'But I have got it.' Half raising himself, he drew his hand out.
The next instant, he started to his feet with a shriek of terror.

A human head dropped from his nerveless grasp on the floor, and rolled to Henry's feet.

It was the hideous head that Agnes had seen hovering above her, in the vision of the night! The two men looked at each other, both struck speechless by the same emotion of horror.

The manager was the first to control himself.

'See to the door, for God's sake!' he said.