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Morton spoke with great earnestness "Weissirl could not move a limb She positively reht's test elihtest coreatly; but as responsible for the prestidigitation?"

Weiss," and fell into a muse which lasted for several minutes At last he roused to say: "Well, ill see Next time Clarke and the mother must be eliminated"

"You don't think evil of her?" exclaimed Morton

"She is very anxious, you know--"

Kate put in her word "It's all very simple," she said; "the spirits did it You needn't tell ot up and skittered around the roos I held their hands--and know they didn't get away Besides, how did that glass come there? and how could theystupidly stubborn? If you treat Viola fairly she will confound your science"

"You base all this on one imperfect test?"

"I don't knohat you'd call a perfect one Anyhow, that child is absolutely honest"

"I hope you are right, Kate; but there are soht's perfor in her chair with my hands free"

"But her hands weren't free! If there is any virtue in cotton fibre or steel she re"

"But to admit that one book was moved from its place is to admit that a force exists unknown to science"

"But what are you going to do? Did you do it? Or did I? Did Clarke reach froht the old wine-glass from the china-closet? No one entered froy' said?"

"What do you think, Dr Weissmann?"

Weissmann looked up abstractedly "If Clarke perfor his tilery You said the cone touched you?" he asked of Morton

"Several times"

"To do that he must have left his seat"

"I am perfectly sure he did not," replied Kate, firmly

Morton insisted "He must have done so, Kate--there is no other explanation of what took place It was very dark and the rug soft There is another important point--all of the books came from within a radius of a few feet of the psychic, so that if she were able to rise and free her hands--"

"Which she did not do," answered Weissmann "She remained precisely where we put her; but we should have nailed Clarke to the floor also"