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Read the excerpt from "The Phantom Rickshaw."
(10) In my room I sat down and tried calmly to reason out the matter. Here was I, Theobald Jack Pansay, a well-
educated Bengal Civilian in the year of grace 1885, presumably sane, certainly healthy, driven in terror from my
sweetheart's side by the apparition of a woman who had been dead and buried eight months ago. These were facts that
I could not blink. Nothing was further from my thought than any memory of Mrs. Wessington when Kitty and I left
Hamilton's shop. Nothing was more utterly commonplace than the stretch of wall opposite Peliti's. It was broad daylight.
The road was full of people; and yet here, look you, in defiance of every law of probability, in direct outrage of Nature's
ordinance, there had appeared to me a face from the grave.
What idea do the underlined details support?
The details underlined in the excerpt support the idea that Jack is
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