"I'll tell you why!"--her eyes deepening. "I'll tell you the secret of
your conclusion. You concluded he could not go on with his work just
because no assistant could be in close enough touch with Karl to make
clear the things he saw."
He thought a minute. Then, "That's about it," he answered briefly.
"You concluded that two men's brains could not work together in close
enough harmony for one man's eyes to fit the other man's brain."
"You put it very clearly," he assented.
She paused, as though to be very sure of herself here. "Then, doctor,
looking a little farther into it, one sees something else. If there were
some one close enough to Karl to bring to his brain, through some other
medium than eyes, the things the eyes would naturally carry; if there
were some one close enough to make things just as plain as though
Karl were seeing them himself, then"--her voice gathered in
intensity--"despite the loss of his eyes, he could go right on with his
work."
"Um--well, yes, if such an impossible thing were possible.
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