re in other directions. Certainly it
had some means of finding its way about, and of hunting down the sheep
upon the hillside. As to its choice of dark nights, it is part of my
theory that light was painful to those great white eyeballs, and that it
was only a pitch-black world which it could tolerate. Perhaps, indeed,
it was the glare of my lantern which saved my life at that awful moment
when we were face to face. So I read the riddle. I leave these facts
behind me, and if you can explain them, do so; or if you choose to doubt
them, do so. Neither your belief nor your incredulity can alter them,
nor affect one whose task is nearly over.

So ended the strange narrative of Dr. James Hardcastle.

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