I will tell you what I know . If anything were to happen to Sidney -- if he were to die or be killed -- he would come to me himself and tell me . ' `` One day Miriam came down to lunch looking pale and worried . After Dick went out , I asked her if anything were wrong . '' ` Something has happened to Sidney , ' she replied , ` some painful accident -- I do n't know what . ' '' ` How do you know ? ' I cried . Then , as she looked at me strangely , I added hastily , ` You have n't been receiving any more unearthly messages , have you ? Surely , Miriam , you are not so foolish as to really believe in that ! ' '' ' I know , ' she answered quickly . ` Belief or disbelief has nothing to do with it . Yes , I have had a message . I know that some accident has happened to Sidney -- painful and inconvenient but not particularly dangerous . I do not know what it is . Sidney will write me that . He writes when it is absolutely necessary . ' '' ` Aerial communication is n't perfected yet then ? ' I said mischievously . But , observing how really worried she seemed , I added , ` Do n't fret , Miriam . You may be mistaken . '
`` Well , two days afterwards she got a note from her lover -- the first I had ever known her XXXXX receive -- in which he said he had been thrown from his horse and had broken his left arm .
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