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“That was my impression.”
“It’s quite plausible. Now, the indications are that Paul Trelawney actually spent considerable time—perhaps twelve to fourteen hours, at any rate—in that other period. He gave no hint of what he experienced during those hours?”
“No, sir, except to say that it was night when he appeared there. He may have told Miss Trelawney more.”
“Apparently, he didn’t,” Camhorn said. “Before you and he went into the laboratory, he warned her to watch for the approach of a creature which answers the description of the gigantic things you encountered twice. But that was all. Now, here again you’ve given us your objective observations. What can you add to them—on a perhaps more speculative basis?”
“Well, sir,” Dowland said, “my opinions on that are, as a matter of fact, highly speculative. But I think that Paul Trelawney was captured by