And he saw an old room he knew well in England , and Persis Leigh in it , holding out her hands to him and looking glad and happy . So he knew he was going to hear good news of her . '' `` A dream -- a dream , '' scoffed the old Doctor . `` Likely -- likely , '' conceded Captain Jim . `` That 's what I said to him at the time . It was a vast more comfortable to think so . I did n't like the idea of him seeing things like that -- it was real uncanny . '' ` No , ' says he , ' I did n't dream it . But we wo n't talk of this again . You wo n't be so much my friend if you think much about it . ' `` I told him nothing could make me any less his friend . But he jest shook his head and says , says he : '' ` Lad , I know . I 've lost friends before because of this . I do n't blame them . There are times when I feel hardly friendly to myself because of it . Such a power has a bit of divinity in it -- whether of a good or an evil divinity who shall say ? And we mortals all shrink from too close contact with God or devil . ' `` Them was his words . I remember them as if 't was yesterday , though I did n't know jest what he meant . What do you s ` pose he DID mean , doctor ? ''
`` I doubt if he XXXXX what he meant himself , '' said Doctor Dave testily .
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