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I saw her standing just back of the firing-line at Manoa Wells when we were preparing to rush the forts , and it scared me so that I jumped forward to draw her back . But -- she was n't there , Mr. Keen ... `` On the transport she stood facing me on deck one moonlit evening for five minutes . I saw her in ` Frisco ; she sat in the Pullman twice between Denver and this city . Twice in my room at the Vice-Regent she has sat opposite me at midday , so clear , so beautiful , so real that -- that I could scarcely believe she was only a -- a -- '' He hesitated . `` The apparition of her own subconscious self , '' said the Tracer quietly . `` Science has been forced to admit such things , and , as you know , we are on the verge of understanding the alphabet of some of the unknown forces which we must some day reckon with . '' Harren , tense , a trifle pale , gazed at him earnestly .