The Sixth Sense Author:Stephen McKenna General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1921 Original Publisher: George H. Doran Company Subjects: Fiction / Horror Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial acces... more »s to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II SUPPER WITH A MYSTIC "I can look into your soul. IXyou know what I see? . . . I see your souL" -- John Masefield, "the Tragedy Of Nan." I Stood absent-mindedly staring at the back of the taxi till it disappeared down Pall Mall and the Seraph brought me to earth with an invitation to supper. ". . . if it won't be too much of an anti-climax to have supper with me alone," I heard him murmuring. At that moment I wanted to stride away somewhere by myself and think. . . . "To be quite candid," I said, as I linked my arm in his and turned in the direction of the club, "if you nailed me down like a Strasburg goose, I don't believe you could fill me fuller than you've already done at dinner." "Let me bear you company, then. It'll keep you from thinking. Wait a minute; I want to have this prescription made up." I followed him into a chemist's shop and waited patiently while a powerful soporific was compounded. I have myself subsisted too many years on heroic remedies to retain the average Englishman's horror of what he calls "drugs." At the same time I do not like to see boys of six-and-twenty playing with toys as dangerous as the Seraph's little grey- white powders; nor do I like to see them so much as feeling the need. "Under advice?" I asked, as we came out into the street. "Oh, yes. I don't need it often, but I'm rather unsettled to-night." He had been restless throughout the play, and the hand that paid for the powders trembled more than was necessary. "You were all right at dinner," I said. "That was some time ag...« less