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Rh (pointedly). Yes: if animals saw angels.

Hm! (He pauses.) Do you really believe he saw them?

I read you his statement.

Which he wrote himself?

Hardly; he knows no English.

Why didn't you take it down in the original?

I did. (He produces a second sheet of paper.) Here it is. (He pauses; smiles.) I translated it, paraphrased it, for my own pleasure, if you like. The original is a mass of ejaculations; short phrases, repeated over and over again. I tried to make it coherent.

And repeated it back to him? ( shakes his head.) Why not?

He takes no notice of anything.

Oh! Not quite in his senses?

No.

Raving? And you believe his ravings?

I neither believe nor disbelieve.

But an insane man?

(with emphasis). Who has not had the education to invent what he told me!