Book Title: Power of Karma
Author(s): Alexander Cannon
Publisher: Rider and Co

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________________ 37 REINCARNATION “This is the one,” she declared, and together they went to the room in question. “This door has been kept locked because there are two dead bodies in the room,” the girl explained with growing agitation. Fumbling in his excitement, the old man inserted the key and turned it in the lock. The door moved stiffly, the unused hinges grating harshly. Regardless of the foetid atmosphere, the girl rushed in and drew back the heavy curtains from the window. On the bed lay a skeleton, while on the floor, near a rusty dagger, lay a second corpse. Pointing down with trembling finger, the girl exclaimed: "This is the very room in which I was murdered,” and collapsed in a faint on the floor. A severe attack of brain-fever followed the shock, but, the report concludes, the doctors at the hospital to which the young wife was removed, believe she will recover, and may perhaps lose all memory of her terrible experience. It is scarcely necessary to add that the medical men were "quite unable to account for the phenomenon". “That this event actually occurred, and in the way narrated,” the Az Est correspondent

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