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F the single taper had by this time burned so dim that his movements
were vague and uncertain. His body cast great flickering shadows on the
half-seen wall. From his throat there issued a low wail in which the
word wah! wah! could be distinguished. The excitement was intense. "What
does wah mean?" whispered Mr. Spillikins. "Hush!" said Mr. Snoop; "it
means, 'O Buddha, wherever thou art in thy lofty Nirvana, descend yet
once in astral form before our eyes!'" Mr. Yahi-Bahi rose. He was seen
to place one finger on his lips and then, silently moving across the
room, he disappeared behind the screen. Of what Mr. Ram Spudd was doing
during this period there is no record. It was presumed that he was still
praying. The stillness was now absolute. "We must wait in perfect
silence," whispered Mr. Snoop from the extreme tips of his lips.
Everybody sat in strained intensity, silent, looking towards the vague
outline of the sideboard. The minutes passed. No one moved. All were
spellbound in expectancy. Still the minutes passed. The taper had
flickered down till the great room was almost in darkness. Could it be
that by some neglect in the preparations, the substitution perhaps of
the wrong brandy, the astralization could not be effected? But no. Quite
suddenly, it seemed, everybody in the darkened room was aware of a
_presence_. That was the word as afterwards repeated in a hundred
confidential discussions. A _presence_. One couldn't call it a body. It
wasn't. It was a figure, an astral form, a presence. "Buddha!" they
gasped as they looked at it. Just how the figure entered the room, the
spectators could never afterwards

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