This time he felt as if he were being accompanied by an
invisible presence. It was a very extraordinary and a most unpleasant
feeling, one which Chester had never experienced before, and it made him
afraid--afraid he knew not of what.
Being the manner of man he was, he began to think that he must be
ill--that there must be something the matter with his nerves. Had he been
at home, in Market Dalling, he would have gone to a doctor without loss
of time.
Long afterwards, when people used to speak before him of haunted houses,
Bill Chester would remember the Pension Malfait and the extraordinary
sensations he had experienced there--sensations the more extraordinary
that there was nothing to account for them.
But Chester never told anyone of his experiences, and indeed there was
nothing to tell. He never saw anything, he never even heard anything, but
now and again, especially when he was lying awake at night and in the
early morning, the lawyer felt as if some other entity was struggling to
communicate with him and could not do so....
The whole time he was there--and he stayed on at Lacville, as we shall
see, rather longer than he at first intended--Chester never felt, when in
his room at the Pension Malfait really alone, and sometimes the
impression became almost intolerably vivid.
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