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"Just tellat him

Laurie threw himself back

"Well, I will," he said "I know it's absurdly childish; but I'htened It's about a dream"

"That's not necessarily childish"

"It's a dreaht--in my chair after dinner"

"Well?"

Then Laurie began

For about tenMr Vincent s what seeain, and nodding gently frohtened," ended Laurie; "and I want you to tellinhalation through his pipe, expelled it, and leaned back

"Oh, it's comparatively common," he said; "common, that is, with people of your temperament, Mr Baxter--and et through at the end? That is interesting"

"But--but--was it more than fancy--more, I mean, than an ordinary dream?"

"Oh, yes; it was objective It was a real experience"

"You mean--"

"Mr Baxter, just listen to me for a minute or two You can ask any questions you like at the end First, you are a Catholic, you told s, that the spiritual world is a real thing, always present h I do not agree with you altogether as to the geography and--and other details of that world But you believe, I take it, that this world is continually with us--that this rooreat deal more than that of which our senses tell us that there are with us, now and always, a ood, bad, and indifferent, really present to our spirits?"

"I suppose so," said Laurie

"Now begin again There are two kinds of drea my own belief, Mr Baxter You can make what comments you like afterwards The one kind of dream is entirely unimportant; it is hts, in which little things that we have experienced reappear in a hopeless sort of confusion It is the kind of dreaenerally, five , if not before But there is another kind of dreaet It leaves as vivid an i experience--an actual incident And that is exactly what it is"