No! … I 'm interested, Higginson. That 's why I 've come." He leant forward. "I 'm really interested."
"You don't believe that I saw … what I say I saw?" said Higginson solemnly.
"Why, my dear Higginson, you know—one sees things when one 's asleep. Simple?"
"You don't believe," reiterated Higginson, "that I heard what I say I heard?"
"Oh, I believe that right enough," answered Babcock impatiently. "What 's 'hearing'? My dear fellow, for one case of optical suggestion there are ten cases of aural!"
"Suggestion be !" cried Professor Higginson too suddenly.
"It 's a funny thing, Higginson," said Babcock, looking curiously at him and pinning his colleague down with that look, "it 's a funny thing that you spook Johnnies don't seem to know what evidence is. … Ever heard a clever counsel briefed in Poison? … I have."
"I" began Professor Higginson, but Babcock interrupted.
"Now, I knew a fellow once in Italy, not like you, my dear Higginson, not half so honest a man, but he had got hold of what
