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STARTING POINT. Mr. O'Sullivan states that the story arose primarily from his foreseeing, in 1915, that one result of the War would be a revived interest in the supernatural. This foreknowledge illustrates that the author must be a little ahead of his time, rather than a little behind it.
The clearness of his prevision is illustrated in such stories as Gordon Arthur Smith's "Jeanne the Maid" (1915), Edith Wharton's "Kerfol" (1916), Alice Brown's "The Flying Teuton" (1917), and Frances Wood's "The White Battalion" (1918). It would be safe to hazard that these authors foresaw a similar demand.