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popular legends writers have occupied themselves with
the subjects of telepathy and witchcraft. I wish
neither to do myself an injustice, nor altogether
to acquit myself of wrong-doing, but I believe
that my evil will was not so evil as the counterstroke
which I received. A devouring curiosity,
an outbreak of perverted love, caused by my
frightful loneliness, inspired me with an intense
longing to be re-united with my wife and child,
both of whom I still loved. But how was this
to be brought about, as divorce proceedings were
already on foot? Some extraordinary event, a
common misfortune, a thunderbolt, a conflagration
... in brief, some catastrophe which unites
two hearts, just as in novels two persons are
reconciled at the sick-bed of a third. Stop! there
I have it! A sick-bed! Children are always
more or less ill; a mother’s fear exaggerates the
danger; a telegram follows, and all is said.
I had no idea of practising magic, but an
unwholesome instinct suggested I must set to work
with the picture of my dear little daughter, who
later on was to be my only comfort in a cursed
existence.
Further on in this work I will relate the
results of my manœuvre, in which my evil purpose
seemed to work with the help of symbolical
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