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"She can do it," cried Clarke "She canto bear any of the known forces She can suspend the law of gravity She can make a closed piano play, and she can read sealed letters in an ebony box tightly closed and locked"

"You claim too much, my friend," replied Weissmann, ironically "We shall be satisfied with rain from one scale to another, under my conditions, I will be satisfied Theplace in the dark have no value to ue--it prevents the coain settled into silence Suddenly, Kate began to laugh, "Isn't it childish? Really, Morton, if our friends could see us sitting around here in the dark, as we are now, they would roar Why should it all be so silly, Mr Clarke?"

"It is not silly if we take the right view We et into harht with fingers touching Song adds stillis really silly or prosaic--all depends upon the minds of those--"

He was in the midst of an elaborate defence of spiritto be free She hed and writhed so powerfully that her chair creaked "Oh, dear! Oh, dear!" she cried, gaspingly

"Is she trying to free her hands?" Morton asked himself, with roused suspicion "Is this a ruse to cover so so, Anthony"

Clarke began to huirl, listened to her gurgling reat pain, Mrs Lambert Don't you think we'd better release her? I do not care to purchase sensation so clearly at her expense"

"Don't be alarreat irl's outcries so nearly resele that Kate at last rose "Turn up that light! She is being strangled!"

"Please be silent!" said Clarke, alentle'--and do not startle her! Be quiet everybody!"

Morton took his hand away in anger and disgust "All this is a ruse to weaken our grasp upon her," he thought "Even thethe deception"