What had become of the other car? Had it gone down some
road of the wood which the guards knew, or ... The words of Prince
Tabnit came back to him as they had been spoken in that wonderful
tour of the island. "The higher dimensions are being conquered.
Nearly all of us can pass into the fifth at will, 'disappearing,' as
you have the word." Was it possible that in the vanishing of the
pursued car this had been demonstrated before him? Into this space,
inclusive of the visible world and of Yaque as well, had the car
passed _without the pursuers being able to point_ to the direction
which it had taken? St. George smiled in derision as this flashed
upon him, and it hardly held his thought for a moment, for his eyes
were upon Olivia's face, so near, so near his own ... Undoubtedly,
he thought vaguely, that other motor had simply swerved aside to
some private opening of the grove and, from being hard-pressed and
almost overtaken, was now well away in safety. Yet if this were so,
would they not have taken Olivia with them? But to that strange and
unapparent hyperspace they could not have taken her, because she did
not understand.
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