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"It produced the impression of a man's voice It is easy to deceive under such conditions The cone was passed from her hand to Clarke's at the proper ht have been a child--"

"You irl is at stake Was there nothing in her favor? Nothing that justified her claim?"

He hesitated and Kate leaned forward in excess of interest "Go on, Morton, be honest"

"Well, now, as I think of it there was one little thing which was rather curious I don't kno she or Clarke or any one there should knoe used to call Uncle Ben"

"What? Did you get a aphone asked for ,' as Clarke says, it replied with an oily chuckle, exactly like the old duffer, 'It's old Loggy'"

"It did?" Her voice was sharp with surprise "Well, now, that is as wonderful as my experience How do you account for that? How do you account for such things?" she repeated, insistently

"Clarke must have known--"

"Nonsense No one outside our immediate family knows of that nicknahed? I'd forgotten it myself"

"So had I But ould you say? Would you ju at the conclusion, Mort If there is one single thing that you can't understand, you y' say?"

"There you go! You're ready to s the whole lu plum in it"

Kate was not to be put down "What did uncle say?"

He sub else Like most of those dead folk, he was there just to manifest, not to ihtful "Morton, that onderful No one knew you were co, no one knew you except those people, and they're fro a pet naotten Now, I call that ato dwell upon How can you, a scientist, overlook it?"

"But you lery There is no value in a performance of that kind There was no test applied Confederates had full opportunity to coht with , not theirs"

"That's what she wants"

"I don't believe it Pardon irl o years ago, she is now a part of Clarke's sche and then--emit a book"