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"If your theory is correct that girl ought to be snatched away before the mob of occultists, freaks, and flatterers of this city utterly spoil her Anyhow, I' to look into her case on led into the corner of the carriage and beca his experience with his sister had enorht and iuer to be immediately seized upon, and he casually added: "It is only fair to say that the La money for any display of 'psychic force'"

Suddenly Kate sat up "Suppose the girl really has these powers?"

"That is impossible!"

"Why impossible? Do you men of science pretend to know all there is to know?"

"Certainly not; but think what such an admission involves"

"No matter what it involves You don't ask what the X-ray involves; you ask, first of all, is it a fact? If the girl has these powers, then what? You don't even knohat she claims, do you?"

"Not in detail"

"Well, then, don't conde her for"

"Kate, you ament, my sanity, and lo and behold! as Aunt Celina says, you have becoirl's advocate and the assailant of science"

"Not at all I ly sure that people with a faith are fools"

"We don't say fools--we merely say misinformed"

"Anyhow, you've interested me in this mediu to see her To apply such a nae"

Kate's voice was exultant as she cried out: "Now I know you're in love with her"

"Mrs Rice, you are a very oman"

"I hope I shall not find you a very silly scientist," she replied, with several implications of superiority in both words and tone