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Chapter 45

           ""WhathappenedtoyouwhenyougotbacktoFrance?""Somethingyouwillnotbelieve.IsawHenrikmeethispillaroffireataboutmidnightonAugust17,1922.ThefireatGivray-le-Ducbeganatthesamehourofthesamenight.""Heavens!""GoodLord."LilyandIspoketogether,thoughhervoicesoundedfarmoreconvincinglyamazedthanmine.Isaid,"You’renotsuggesting…""Iamsuggestingnothing.Therewasnoconnectionbetweentheevents.Noconnectionispossible.Orrather,Iamtheconnection,Iamwhatevermeaningthecoincidencehas."Therewasanunusualshadeofvanityinhisvoice,asifinfacthebelievedhehadinsomewayprecipitatedbotheventsandtheircommontiming.Isensedthatthecoincidencewasnotliterallytrue,butsomethinghehadinvented,whichheldanother,metaphorical,meaning:thatthetwoepisodeswerelinkedinsignificance,thatIwastousebothtointerprethim.JustasthestoryofdeDeukanshadthrownlightonConchishimself,thisthrewlightonthehypnosisthatimagehehadused,"realitybreakingthroughthethinnetofscience"…Ihadmyselfrecalledsomethingtoosimilarfromthehypnosisforittobecoincidence.Everywhereinthemasque,theseinterrelationships,threadsbetweencircumstance.HeturnedparentallytoLily."Mydear,Ithinkitisyourbedtime."Ilookedatmywatch.Itwaseleventwenty-five.Lilygavealittleshrug,asifthematterofbedtimewasunimportant.Shesaid,"Doyoufeelpossessedbythem?IknowIfeelsomepeoplepossessme.

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