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-"He seems to have got almost as far south as Messina, but could tell me little enough about that time. There was no mistaking the menace of Archie Summers's words, and as he worried and groped, his fears increased. He began to imagine things. His thoughts became stranger and stranger. He found himself afraid to go to bed. Fearsome dreams would cause him to wake up in an agony of fear. And then he noticed that he was making excuses to himself for not going out into the streets. Once he tried to write a letter to D'Anoury, but could find no words.
-"There came, you will understand, a general nervous breakdown.