_One of these stories, THE MOLE, appeared in ‘The London Mercury.’ To the editor of this journal I tender thanks._ ‘Stories of the supernatural,’ said Saunders, ‘serve at least one useful purpose: they test a man’s intellectual capacity. Not a very sure test, you may say; but for purposes of rough classification it is sure enough. Incertitude, a sense of imminent surprise, is after all the very salt of life. Denounce the habit of classification as bitterly as you like--and I know well the intellectual perils that attend it--it is none the less true that we do, when we meet a man, like to be able to place him, roughly, in this category or that. And most men, by the way, submit to the process…
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