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"I can't say exactly," he replied, thoughtfully "In general I would bring to bear as many senses as possible I would see, I would hear, I would touch I wouldI would make matter my trap"

"But how?"

"That, circumstances would deterin with the simplest of the phenomena"

"Do you know Meyers's book?"

"Bah! No"

"And yet they say it is a careful and scientific study"

"They say! Who say?"

Serviss shtly added: "What would you and the rest of the scientific world do to ation and come out converted?"

The old man's eyes twinkled and his mustache writhed in silent enjoyment "Burn you alive, as we did Bent and Zöllner"

"Of course you would What you really want , eh?"

"That's about it"

"Clarke, that crazy preacher, said we ht We condeation--we play the heretic, just as they did Could you--could anyhis fellows?"

"No" The old figure straightened, and his oes into this arena invites a kind of ht live to see your vindication, but I would die in race as Zöllner did"

So they parted, Serviss ad, Weiss, and his work nearly done, "and so little accomplished," he sadly added

Kateirl I have had a perfectly nerve-racking tiet her out of that house before they drive her crazy"

The sincerity of her rage froze the smile on his face "Is it as bad as that?"

"It is as bad as you can iine That man Clarke has some kind of baneful influence over her He see his hand at her And the mother is such a dear old silly--she trusts to hio and dress and ill talk it all over I'm all of a-tremble yet hat I've seen I feel as if I had been to an insane asylu"

He went away to his rooulated human nature which could so upset his sane sister and come between his own mind and his work He believed in orderly and huirl from the mountains come with her trances and tricks toand accountable? To ould a closer acquaintance lead? What would becoave himself to her case? "To disillusionment, I sincerely hope," he said