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Rh heart and come out here yesterday and killed Rolf Jaeke, my father would be alive today."

"You have a theory, then?" asked the warden.

"I have a theory. It will not be believed, but then I can't stop to think of that. These deaths are not mere coincidences. That we can easily guess. I repeat: I doubt that you will believe my story, but tell it I will.

"As you know, gentlemen, I am a student of psychology. Being such, I have gone deeply into the things which cause the various reactions in individuals. I have made a deep and exacting study of that thing which we call the human soul. That there is some directing force behind every individual you will admit. Now the question is this: what is the soul? Can it or can it not be divided from the individual without death resulting? Gentlemen, from what I have found through study I believe that it can. During the time I have been here, I have studied out many things in the life of Rolf Jaeke which are not generally known. I find that he was a student of the occult, of the stars, of the soul. I find that as a lad he traveled over the country with a Hindoo seer, who doubtless taught him the things of which I speak. I shall tell you my story, gentlemen, and shall leave it to you whether or not I am insane—or lying.

"Here, then, is what happened within the room where my father died. We sat there waiting for a long time—endless hours it seemed. My father knew that we were waiting for something—what, he could not guess. But I knew. And I shall tell you. We were waiting for the soul of Rolf Jaeke to appear and begin the insidious work of destruction!

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