"Yes, I think so!"
"It is curious," he pursued--"that I should have been the means of
bringing you together. Your theories of life and death are so alike
that you must have thoughts in common. Many years have passed since I
knew Santoris--in fact, I had completely lost sight of him, though I
had never forgotten his powerful personality--and it seemt rather odd
to me that he should suddenly turn up again while you were with me--"
"Mere coincidence,"--I said, lightly--"and common enough, after all.
Like attracts like, you know."
"That may be. There is certainly something in the law of attraction
between human beings which we do not understand,"--he answered,
musingly--"Perhaps if we did--"
He broke off and relapsed into silence.
That night, just before going to bed, I was met by Dr. Brayle in the
corridor leading to my cabin. I was about to pass him with a brief
good-night, but he stopped me.
"So you are really going to-morrow!" he said, with a furtive narrowing
of his eyelids as he looked at me--"Well! Perhaps it is best! You are a
very disturbing magnet."