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Laurie sat down suddenly, unconscious that he had done so The oing to be quite honest," he said "I have quite a quantity of co whatever, even if it really happened--"

"Even if it--!"

"Certainly Oh, yes; I saw it too; and there's the pencil on the floor"--he stooped and picked it up

"But what if ere both hypnotized--both acted upon by self-suggestion? We can't prove eren't"

Laurie was du, in any case, as regards the otherof It only shows--if it really happened, as I say--that theto do with imasped the boy

"Merely fireworksonly to show off People are convinced by such queer things"

Laurie sat regarding, still with an unusual pallor in his face and brightness in his eyes He could not in the last degree put into words why it was that the tiny incident of the pencil affected hiuely, only, he perceived that it was all connected somehoith the ordinariness of the accessories, and more impressive therefore than all the paraphernalia of planchette, spinning ain suddenly

"It's no good, Mr Vincent," he said, putting out his hand, "I' now I ht, Mr Baxter," said the medium serenely