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When the World Shook

CHAPTER XVII
11/27

She ought to know.

Now I'm off to try to analyse that confounded Life-water, which I suspect is of the ordinary spring variety, lightened up with natural carbonic acid gas and possibly not uninfluenced by radium.

The trouble is that here I can only apply some very elementary tests." So he went also, in an opposite direction to Bastin, and I was left alone with Tommy, who annoyed me much by attempting continually to wander off into the cave, whence I must recall him.

I suppose that my experiences of the day, reviewed beneath the sweet influences of the wonderful tropical night, affected me.

At any rate, that mystical side of my nature, to which I think I alluded at the beginning of this record, sprang into active and, in a sense, unholy life.


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