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Thehis eyes

"You must think us very childish, Mr Baxter," he said

He sat up a little in his chair; then, putting his hand into his breast pocket, drew out a note-book, holding it still closed on his knee

"May I ask you a rather painful question?" he said gently

Laurie nodded He felt so secure

"Would you kindly tell irl since you left the country; secondly, whether anyone happens to have mentioned it to you?"

Laurie sed in his throat

"Certainly no one has mentioned it to me And I have not seen it since I left the country"

"How long ago was that?"

"That wasabout September the twenty-seventh"

"Thank you!" He opened the note-book and turned the pages a moment or two "And will you listen to this, Mr Baxter?--'Tell Laurie that the ground has sunk a little aboveat the sides'"

"What is that book?" said the boy hoarsely

The medium closed it and returned it to his pocket

"That book, Mr Baxter, contains a few extracts fro your trance The sentence I have read is one of theiven to a deive some unmistakable proof of her identity Sheyou hesitated so that answer"

"Who took the notes?"

"Mrs Stapleton You can see the originals if you wish I thought it ht distress you to know that such notes had been taken; but I have had to risk that We must not lose you, Mr Baxter"

Laurie sat, dumb and bewildered

"Now all you have to do," continued the medium serenely, "is to find out whether what has been said is correct or not If it is not correct, there will be an end of the matter, if you choose But if it is correct--"

"Stop; let ain in the confusion froht he had escaped Here was a definite test, offered at least in good faith--just such a test as had been lacking before; and he had no doubt whatever that it would be borne out by facts And if it were--was there any conceivable hypothesis that would explain it except the one offered so confidently by this grave, dignifiedof interested compassion in his heavy eyes? Coincidence? It was absurd Certainly graves did sink, soht-transference frorave? But why that particular thought, so vivid, concise, and pointed?