There was no longer any dispute as to the larger facts.

All that now remained to be done by this huge organization of international experts was to define more and more closely and precisely where the line lay between the two worlds.

All cures that could be even remotely paralleled in the mental laboratories were dismissed as not evidently supernatural; all those which could not be so paralleled were recorded, with the most minute detail, under the sworn testimonies of doctors who had examined the patients immediately before and immediately after the cure itself.

In a series of libraries that abutted on to the Place, Monsignor Masterman, under the guidance of Dom Adrian Bennett, had spent a couple of hours this afternoon in examining the most striking of the records and photographs preserved there.

He was amazed to find that even by the end of the nineteenth century cures had taken place for which the most modern scientists could find no natural explanation.
Ten minutes ago he had taken his place in the procession of the Blessed Sacrament, with the monk's last word still in his head.
"It is during the procession itself," he had said, "that the work is done.