known about, in a somewhat psychic fashion, for the past quarter of an
hour. Then he suddenly understood, through the powers of his sixth
sense, that the trouble would happen to someone else, beyond the walls
of this studio.
'When you touched the pajamas,' Prine said, ,did you see the murders as
if they were actually taking place in front of you at that very moment?'
'Not exactly. I saw it all take place-well, behind my eyes.'
'What do you mean by that? Are your visions sort of like daydreams?'
'In a way. But much more vivid than daydreams full of color and sound
and texture.'
F 'Did you see the Havelocks' killer in this vision?'
'Yes. Quite clearly.'
'Did you also intuit his name?'
'No,' Graham said. 'But I was able to give the police a thorough
description of him - He was in his early thirties, not shorter than
five-ten or taller than six feet. Slightly heavy. Receding hairline.
Blue eyes. A thin nose, generally sharp features. A small strawberry
birthmark on his chin.... As it turned out, that was a perfect
description of the building superintendent.'
'And you'd never seen him?'
'My first glimpse of him was in the vision.'
'You'd never seen a photograph of him?'
'No.'
'Had he been a suspect before you gave the police this description?'
Prine asked.
'Yes. But the murders took place in the early morning hours of his day
off - He swore that he had gone to his sister's house to spend the
night, hours before the Havelock girls were killed; and his sister
supported his story. Since she lived over eighty miles away, he seemed
out of the running.'
'Was his sister lying?'
'Yes.
'How did you prove it?'
While handling the dead girls' clothing, Graham sensed that the killer
had gone to his sister's house a full two hours after the murder had
taken place-not early the previous evening as she insisted. He also
sensed that the weapon-a Smith & Wesson Terrier .-was hidden in the
sister's house, in the bottom drawer of a china closet.
He accompanied a Boston city detective and two state troopers to the
sister's place. Arriving unannounced and uninvited, they told her they
wanted to question her on some new evidence in the case. Ten seconds
after he stepped into her house, while the woman was still surprised at
the 'sight of them, Graham asked her why she had said that her brother
had come to stay on the evening of November first when in fact he
actually had not arrived until well after dawn on November second.
Before she could answer that, before she could get her wits about her,
he asked her why she was hiding the murder weapon in the bottom drawer
of her china closet. Shocked by his knowledge, she withstood only half
a dozen questions from the detective before she finally admitted the
