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Updated: June 29, 2025
There were eight of us, and seven contrived, in a manner more or less adequate, to fulfil the condition imposed. It surprised us all to find that we could muster such a show of supernatural impressions, for none of us, excepting Murchard himself and young Phil Frenham whose story was the slightest of the lot had the habit of sending our souls into the invisible.
"Or, if you haven't seen one, it's only because you've seen two!" The form of the challenge seemed to strike our host. He shot his head out of the mist with a queer tortoise-like motion he sometimes had, and blinked approvingly at Frenham. "Yes," he suddenly flung at us on a shrill jerk of laughter; "it's only because I've seen two!"
Frenham laughed too, pulling up his slender height before the chimney-piece as he turned to face his short bristling friend. "Oh," he said, "you'd never be content to share if you met one you really liked." Culwin had dropped back into his armchair, his shock head embedded in its habitual hollow, his little eyes glimmering over a fresh cigar. "Liked liked? Good Lord!" he growled.
For my part, I haven't found the link." He rose stiffly, his hands in his pockets, and walked over to the table on which reviving drinks had been set out. "You must be parched after this dry tale. Here, help yourself, my dear fellow. Here, Phil " He turned back to the hearth. Frenham still sat in his low chair, making no response to his host's hospitable summons.
Phil Frenham, sitting in a low chair on the opposite side of the hearth, one long arm propped on the table behind him, one hand supporting his thrown-back head, and his eyes steadily fixed on his old friend's face, had not moved since the tale began.
Young Phil Frenham was the last, and the most interesting, of these recruits, and a good example of Murchard's somewhat morbid assertion that our old friend "liked 'em juicy." It was indeed a fact that Culwin, for all his mental dryness, specially tasted the lyric qualities in youth.
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