“We were up by the North-West Frontier,” said David, “and it was quite impossible for him to have received any communication from any other part of India. I thought at first he was just making an excuse to slip off and have fun. Then because he was obviously distressed about his father and speaking with an honesty I could not doubt, I let him go.”
“And had his father died?” asked Lanthia.
“Yes, at exactly the time he had told me, over two hundred miles away.”
“You must have been astonished.”
“It was the first time this had happened to me, but I found that many strange things occur in India which we would call miracles. To the Indians it is just a part of their knowledge of what the Chinese call the World beyond the World.”
Lanthia had not forgotten this conversation.
And now it occur
