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"What the--"

"It's a littlesleep Oh! I haven't used that for months But it's useful sometimes The hypnotic subject just stares at that steadily Why, you're looking dazed yourself, already, Mr Baxter," smiled the medium

He stopped the mechanism and pushed it on one side

"And what's the other?" asked Laurie, looking again at the shelf

"Ah!"

The medium, with quite a different air, took down and set before hi a tiny heart-shaped table on three wheeled legs, perhaps four or five inches across Through the center ran a pencil perpendicularly of which the point just touched the tablecloth on which the thing rested Laurie looked at it, and glanced up

"Yes, that's Planchette," said the ?"

The other nodded

"Yes," he said "The experihtly upon that, and there's a sheet of paper beneath That is all"

Laurie looked at him, half curiously Then with a sudden movement he stood up

"Yes," he said "Thank you But--"

"Please sit down, Mr Baxter I know you haven't co Will you kindly tell me what you have co at the other, began slowly to fill his pipe again, with his strong capable fingers Laurie stared at the process, unseeing