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"And of what use would the knowledge be, if it were obtained?"

"I can't say Experiard to its utility The use appears when the knowledge has been acquired But in this case, if it should be possible to deteranic substance by its reaction to X-rays, the discoverya new seal on an old document, for instance But I don't knohether Thorndyke has anything definite in view; I only know that the preparations have been on a ard to size When I went into the workshop yesterday allows about nine feet high, and he had just finished varnishing a pair of enor It looked as if he and Thorndyke were conte a few private executions with subsequent post-estion!"

"So Polton said, with his quaint, crinkly shty close about the use of the apparatus all the sa of the experiet there This is Museum Street, isn't it?"

"Yes" As she spoke, she lifted the flap of one of the little s in the back of the cab and peered out Then, closing it with a quiet, ironic sht; he hasn't e for hilancing out as it turned, I saw another hanso; but before I had tier, we drew up at the Museuate-porter, who seereat portico and into the Central Hall, where he handed us over to another official

"Doctor Norbury is in one of the rooyptian Room," the latter stated in answer to our inquiries: and, providing hiuarded lantern, he prepared to escort us thither

Up the great staircase, norapped in loom, we passed in silence with bitter-sweet memories of that day of days e had first trodden its steps together: through the Central Saloon, the Mediaeval Rooe of the Ethnographical Galleries

It was a weird journey The swaying lantern shot its beaalleries, casting instantaneous flashes on the objects in the cases, so that they leaped into being and vanished in the twinkling of an eye Hideous idols with round, staring eyes started forth froone Grotesque ht, took on the seibber at us as we passed As for the life-sized ht--their aspect was positively alarht and shadow endowed them with life and movement, so that they seemed to watch us furtively, to lie in wait and to hold themselves in readiness to steal out and follow us The illusion evidently affected Ruth as well as ures are quite startling Did you see that Polynesian? I really felt as if he were going to spring out on us"