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Weissmann replied slowly, with a little effort, "I had a little girl of the name Mina who died at eight years of age." Kate's voice expressed sympathy. "I didn't know that. She must have been a dear. The voice was very sweet. I could almost touch the little thing." "I do not see how Clarke or any one here knew of my daughter or her name. Clarke may be a mind-reader.
He smiled brilliantly in answer to the furtive, half-sullen, half-curious glance she stole at him, as she brought the dishes in. "Ah! potatoes warmed up in cream!" he said, with hearty pleasure in his tone. "What a mind-reader you are, to be sure!" "I'm glad you're feeling so much better," she said briefly, taking her seat. "Better?" he returned. "I'm a new being!"
"Complete!" he grunted, satisfiedly, as he sat down. "We've come through with the job in good shape, Harlan. It'll have to be a mind-reader that finds out what I've put up to-day." He swung his feet upon the seat opposite and sighed. "I'm a pretty old man to be tearing 'round nights in this fashion, bub, but I feel younger by twenty years just this minute.
"Does Miss Crown live here?" came in a clear, boyish voice from the outside. "She does. Who are you and what do you want?" "I'm a messenger boy. I got a letter for her." "A letter? Who's it from?" "Say, open up! I can't stand out here all night." "Who is it from?" repeated Mrs. Strong firmly. "How do I know? I ain't no mind-reader." Mrs. Strong looked in at Alix.
"Are you a mind-reader," he replied, "or haven't I heard you?" "It doesn't matter," she explained, "but you were so far away." He told her something of what had been in his thoughts, and she rewarded him with a swift speculative interest. "I hadn't realized you were so critical about your guinea hen," she acknowledged. "Well, if what you say is true, what can you do about it?"
They didn't expect him to be a mind-reader, did they? And all the flood of bitterness that had been collecting in his spirit seethed to the surface. They had not treated him right, He felt full of hopeless anger against this vast treadmill to which he was bound.
Thoburn was there, of course, pretending to read the paper, but every now and then he looked at his watch, and once he got up and paced off the lobby, putting down the length in his note-book. I didn't need a mind-reader to tell me he was figuring the cost of a new hardwood floor and four new rugs. Mr. Sam came to the news stand, and he was so nervous he could hardly light a cigarette.
Bedad, with our wives and daughters moving in such elegant society and members of such a grand club with the boss's wife, we wouldn't dare take them any less place at all!" "It's a bad mind-reader you are!" fairly shouted the outraged wife. Sadie added something unintelligible, it was so rapidly uttered and so venomously hissed. Even Mrs. Schmidt displayed every symptom of speech save sound.
At the next, and final, "demonstration" mystification of another kind came to the observant Kate. Rising to his feet, the mind-reader announced that he would now inform a few of the "stronger thinkers" before him the subject of their thoughts; and both in his manner and tone Kate noted an unmistakable nervousness.
The Captain looked a little disappointed. "Well, we can take a spin up the lake. Lucius, go hire a buckboard and we're off." "There's an auto-car waiting, sir. I ordered it half an hour ago." The gambler looked at him humorously. "Ye must be a mind-reader." A tap on the door called the man out, and when he returned he bore a telegram. "For you, Captain," he said, presenting it on the salver.
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