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It would take some time to do it, but I think I could prove that it was what I took it to be thought-reading of quite an exceptional quality, joined to a clever piece of acting." "You'd find it more difficult than you think to prove that," said Sir Lyon quietly. "I've been to too many séances to be able to accept that point of view.
In the large drawing-room, which is really a ball-room with a polished floor, people were dancing, or thought-reading, or making music, as it pleased them. Mr. Balfour was there, with whom we had made friends, as fellow-guests, on a week-end visit to Oxford, not long before; Alfred Lyttelton, then in the zenith of his magnificent youth; Lord Curzon, then plain Mr.
"We've heard of him at the Yard, of course, and we know that under the cloak of a dealer in Eastern perfumes he carried on a fortune-telling business. He managed to avoid prosecution, though. It took me over an hour tonight to explore the thought-reading mechanism; it's a sort of Maskelyne's Mysteries worked from the inside room.
Her host was handing the old lady a bedroom candle, and she was looking up at him with a kind of appeal in her now troubled and bewildered face. "I feel I owe you an apology," he said in a low voice. "Bubbles Dunster has always possessed extraordinary powers of thought-reading. I remember hearing that years ago, when she was a child.
Even so, after he and Blanche Farrow turned away from the porch where they had been speeding the parting guest, she noticed that Varick looked more annoyed, more thoroughly put out, than she had ever seen him and she had seen him through some rather bad moments in the long course of their friendship! "I hope Bubbles won't try on any more of her thought-reading tomfoolery," he said disagreeably.
You see, my father, who died when I was only eight years old, always called me 'Girlie. Somehow that made me feel as if he was really there." "And yet," said Varick slowly, "Bubbles told you nothing that you didn't know? To my mind what happened last night was simply a clever exhibition of thought-reading. She's always had the gift."
"Then you're inclined to think her thought-reading is more or less a fraud?" cried Panton triumphantly. "Less, rather than more, for she's convinced me that she sees into the minds of her subjects and builds up a kind of of " "Description?" suggested the doctor. "More than that I was going to say figure.
She realized the temptation it must offer to a clever girl who, as her father truly said, had had as a child an uncanny power of thought-reading, and of "willing" people to do what she liked. Blanche Farrow smiled and sighed as she stared into the fire. How the world had changed!
"Black fellow plenty savey," they said loftily, and Dan was almost persuaded to a belief in debbel-debbels, until our return to the homestead, when Jimmy's Nellie divulged the Court secret; then Dan ejaculated another "Well, I'm blowed!" with the theory of second-sight and thought-reading falling about his ears.
'Have you seen any experiments in the working of this new force before? he asked her, with a solemnity which sat oddly on his commonplace bearded face. 'Oh yes! she said flippantly. 'We have tried it sometimes. It is very good fun. He drew himself up. 'Not fun, he said impressively, 'not fun. Thought-reading wants seriousness; the most tremendous things depend upon it.
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