Moreover, this Double, or Astral Shape, while itself invisible, still, so to speak, had the use of its senses.

It could see, it could hear, and it could remember, and, on returning to the body, it could avail itself of the experience thus acquired.
Thus, at least, said Yva, while Bickley contemplated her with a cold and unbelieving eye.

She even went further and alleged that in certain instances, individuals of her extinct race had been able to pass through the ether and to visit other worlds in the depths of space.
"Have you ever done that ?" asked Bickley.
"Once or twice I dreamed that I did," she replied quietly.
"We can all dream," he answered.
As it was my lot to make acquaintance with this strange and uncanny power at a later date, I will say no more of it now.
Telepathy, she declared, was also a developed gift among the Sons of Wisdom; indeed, they seem to have used it as we use wireless messages.
Only, in their case, the sending and receiving stations were skilled and susceptible human beings who went on duty for so many hours at a time.
Thus intelligence was transmitted with accuracy and despatch.

Those who had this faculty were, she said, also very apt at reading the minds of others and therefore not easy to deceive.
"Is that how you know that I had been trying to analyse your Life-water ?" asked Bickley.
"Yes," she answered, with her unvarying smile.

"At the moment I spoke thereof you were wondering whether my father would be angry if he knew that you had taken the water in a little flask." She studied him for a moment, then added: "Now you are wondering, first, whether I did not see you take the water from the fountain and guess the purpose, and, secondly, whether perhaps Bastin did not tell me what you were doing with it when we met in the sepulchre." "Look here," said the exasperated Bickley, "I admit that telepathy and thought-reading are possible to a certain limited extent.