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He found no word from Lambert, and this troubled him "If he does not come to-day I must act alone," he concluded, and attempted to take up his work, but found his brain preoccupied, his hand heavy

Weiss old and worn He, too, had passed a restless night He nodded curtly to his assistant and set to ithout reference to the sitting or the psychic; and yet Morton was very sure his chief's ed as his own, and a little later in the forenoon he stopped at his desk and said: "Lunch, with s over with you both"

Weissmann consented in blunt abstraction, and the work proceeded quite in the regular routine so far as he was concerned

Tolman was the farthest re a brisk, blondneatness and taste in dress He wore the , his hair and beard were in perfect order, and his hands were very beautiful He was, indeed, vain of his slender fingers and gesticulated overmuch His voice also was a little over-assertive, but his eyes were clear, steady, and strong

As they took seats in the cheerful sunlit dining-rooroup and one that attracted general cooing publishers and professionaltables, so full of interrogation and assertion was each specialist

As Tolman rose to speak to a friend at a table across the room, Weissht, not a wink I could not satisfy myself about those perforht's test proved nothing toto do with the phenolowed at these words and he feelingly replied "To prove that would hted up "So! Then you are interested in her? You love her? I was right, eh?" he asked, with true German directness

Serviss protested "Oh no! I haven't said that; but it troubled me to think of her as a possible trickster Please don't hint such a thing in Tol"

As the hypnotist returned to his seat, Serviss opened up the special discussion by asking him his opinion of the claims of spiritualists

This question threw Tolman into a roar "That from you, and in the presence of Weissmann, is a 'facer'! What has come over Morton Serviss that he should invite me to a lunch to talk over a case of hysterico-epilepsy, and start in by asking my opinion of spiritualism? Come, now, out with the real question"