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The Inexplicable Gallery.
"Mademoiselle Stangerson appeared at the door of her ante-room," continues Rouletabille's note-book.

"We were near her door in the gallery where this incredible phenomenon had taken place.

There are moments when one feels as if one's brain were about to burst.

A bullet in the head, a fracture of the skull, the seat of reason shattered--with only these can I compare the sensation which exhausted and left me void of sense.
"Happily, Mademoiselle Stangerson appeared on the threshold of her ante-room.