Double Trouble

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egarded by the masculine reader of the unregenerate sort (though to such far be it from me to appeal

n a few minutes you will feel a sensation of drowsiness. Soon y

eyes were above his. The professor was blent with the shadows of so

rk, arched, ebon sweep of the eyebrow, the long dark lashes curved daintily upward, the shining whiteness in the corners, and the wondrous irises. The one which was gray was dark like a moonlit sky; the other, like the same sky necked with clouds, and filled with the golden smoke of some far-off conflagration; and at the inner margin of both, the black of the dilated pupils seemed to spread out into the iris in rays of feathery blackness. They seemed to h

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id he; "I was thinking-

our thoughts. Think that you-are-going-to sl

ing in their native space. Now the cheeks and hair and mouth came out in their places, returning to distinctness like featur

eping-car, was now, by his own act, given over as passively as some inert instrument, body and soul, to the guidance and manipulation of this shady occultist, not four hours known to him-while outside droned the muffled roar of the human cyclone which sweeps and whirls and eddies through Manhattan. So strippe

d the professor, "for

th the left, she held his forehead; the fingers of the right crept insinuatingly among the curls resting on his neck, swept t

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gested Amidon, as passing to

you to your hotel. You must sleep. Never fear, no harm is coming to you. When you wake, come to me, and I w