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unsuccessfully tried to discover its source, and could not
believe that a light could have no source, and looked everywhere,
and out of the darkness downwards something emerged shining
upwards, and my eyes fixed onto a strange dim orb floating
upwards.
    My only
way to escape was to swiftly remove my harness and
plunge down into the abyss below, and perhaps avoid hitting it, as
it was not directly below, but the bottom could be at a great depth
below, and the fate of hideously dying on the ground below and
having a normal death there persuaded me to remain and handle
it.
    My eyes seemed to alter and see some dim
light and I realized I was no longer in the shaft, and in somewhere
like it.
    A bright light flashed and I realized
I was now not in any shafts, and dazed and confused I examined what
I could of my surroundings and saw little but what seemed a
whirlpool of shifting energy outlines and I studied them with my
tired and dazed vision and was sure it was some form of energy
formation, and I watched energy patterns transform into things I
could not recognize, and I could not grasp what was there, and I
started to remember what
had happened to me when I activated the metal detector in the
woman’s house and I went unconscious.
     

Chapter 16
     
    The Body
     
    Things seemed strange and utterly
unbelievable and I studied everything trying to grasp what, and
what had happened to me, and I kept trying to recall what had
happened before I collapsed, just wondering what the hell
happened.
    I kept gasping as I wondered if I had
received brain damage, as I was sure I had fallen down to the
bottom of the shaft, and that I was lucky, and lucky to be alive as
I could not have been that far over the ground. Even though I
recalled I was further down than the bottom of the hospital, and I
proved it, and I was left confused about it, and as I had lost so
many memories, and I kept trying to recall things.
    I wondered if I blew my mission as the
scientists were annoyed at me for not giving them information on
what had happened.
    The whole
event was incredible, and I could hardly believe anything had
happened as I could hardly recall it, and the events of the past
weeks were astounding.
    They had found
me asleep at the bottom of the shaft hours later, and had thought I
had done something or was up to something, which I have still not
grasped what, and when I climbed out the shaft I fully realized
that I could have climbed up after all.
    At the top I
watched the first shreds of sunlight emerging in the horizon, and I
wondered what I had discovered as I could barely recall a thing,
and I realized that if it was not a haunting why was it occurring
at night, as I could even imagine anything else.
    To my surprise
I was told by a nurse that I had phone call and I discovered it was
from the police and that the killer had struck nearby, and they
wanted me there to help them investigate it, and I was surprised
that it was only a few streets away, and I sensed that the
incidents were connected and wanted to discover why and I rushed
out the hospital, and over to where I spotted policemen and their
vehicles going, and as I did I kept trying to work out how the
incidents were linked.
    When I
got there and glanced at the body I gasped and nearly fell over, in
my weakened and tired condition, and grew annoyed and
felt like screaming, as I saw Marple’s body lying on the street,
surrounded by police and investigators.
    I wondering who the hell had done it, and
had dumped him there in a pool of muck, and thought it could have
occurred because of what I had done, and disturbed what ever
existed there.
    I was furious and I marched over and
suddenly spotted all the people there standing watching me,
confused, with mouths open, watching me with staring unblinking
eyes, and I went silent, and when I was only feet away from the
body I spotted Marple coming out of a building with a police
inspector.
    It was incredible how similar the man was to
him and I wondered

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