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You had a sitting, did you?" "Yes." "Whose idea was that Clarke's?" "No, father wanted to speak with Dr. Serviss and Dr. Weissmann." "Weissmann was there, was he? What did he say?" "He seemed impressed." "What happened?" "Father came, as usual " "I mean what happened outside the séance? Something set that girl against me and upset Clarke. I want to know what it was."
It is pitiful, but she now believes in herself that is pathetically certain. Otherwise she would not have yielded herself so completely into the hands of an inexorable investigator like Weissmann. She must take the consequences," he ended, with grim closing of the lips. "We must be cruel in order to be kind. This night may be her salvation." Weissmann was replying to Mrs. Lambert.
In deep amazement Morton listened for some movement, some sound from Viola, but there was none, not a breath, not a rustle of motion where she sat, and the silk thread was tight and calm. "She has nothing to do with that," he said, beneath his breath. Kate called excitedly, "Oh! It touched me." "What touched you?" asked Weissmann. "The horn." "Did it bump you?"
"Now, let us see!" cried Weissmann, and his voice rang triumphantly. "Now, spirits, to your work!" Clarke laughed contemptuously. "You scientists are very amusing. Your unbelief is heroic."
At the same time, it seemed to me that you were a little severe upon Weissmann in this matter. Has not the general evidence since that date tended to well, to strengthen his position?" "What evidence?" He spoke with a menacing calm. "Well, of course, I am aware that there is not any what you might call DEFINITE evidence.
If the mind can produce a pathologic process like a blister, it can also remove warts or cancer, as the hypnotists of the Charcot school claim. The young man shrugged his shoulders. "To admit a single one of your premises would turn all our science upside down." Weissmann smiled musingly. "So said the Ptolmaic philosophers when Copernicus came.
"You say he is a faddist. What is his particular fad?" "He has a thousand, but the latest is something about Weissmann and Evolution. He had a fearful row about it in Vienna, I believe." "Can't you tell me the point?" "Not at the moment, but a translation of the proceedings exists. We have it filed at the office. Would you care to come?" "It's just what I want.
I cannot promise anything to-night " Morton, hearing this, inwardly commented; "These obscure forms of hysteria often possess the cunning, the dissimulation of madness. Poor girl! She is beginning to realize her predicament, and is preparing us for disappointment," and a return of his doubt kept him silent. Weissmann spoke.
I have to interview the fellow, and I need some lead up to him. It's really awfully good of you to give me a lift. I'll go with you now, if it is not too late." Half an hour later I was seated in the newspaper office with a huge tome in front of me, which had been opened at the article "Weissmann versus Darwin," with the sub heading, "Spirited Protest at Vienna. Lively Proceedings."
How Dr. Weissmann loves him! They are like father and son." Thinking upon these people and their home, with their griefs, their easy, off-hand, penetrating comments, their laughter filling her ears, the girl grew drowsy with some foreknowledge of happier days to come, and fell asleep with a faint smile upon her lips.
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