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`Partly me, of course, but - what a violin! But what'll we do with him? Let him sleep
there?'

`No, he'd be more comfortable on the couch. I'll get a couple of blankets,' Vaneman said.

He did so and the three went into the living room together. Seaton lay motionless, only
the lifting and falling of his powerful chest showing that he was alive.

`You take his...'

`Sh ... Sh!' Dorothy whispered, intensely. `You'll wake him up, dad.'

'Bosh! You couldn't wake him up now with a club. You take his head and shoulders,
Crane -heave-ho!'

With Dorothy anxiously watching the proceedings and trying to help, the two men picked
Seaton up out of the chair and carried him across the room to the couch. They removed
his outer clothing; the girl arranged pillows and tucked blankets around him, then touched
her lips lightly to his. `Good night,
sweetheart,' she whispered.

His lips responded faintly to her caress, and, `. . . dnigh . . he murmured in his sleep.


It was three o'clock in the afternoon when Seaton, looking vastly better, came into the
shop. When Crane saw him and called out a greeting, he returned it with a sheepish grin.


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`Don't say a word, Martin; I'm thinking it all, and then some. I never felt so cheap in my
life as when I woke up on the Vanemans' couch this noon - where you helped put me, no
doubt.'

`No doubt at all,' Crane agreed, cheerfully, `and listen to this. More of the same, or
worse, if you keep on going as you were.'

`Don't rub it in - can't you see I'm flat on my back with all four paws in the air? I'll be
good. I'm going to bed at eleven every night and I'm going to see Dottie every other
evening and all day Sunday.!

'Very fuse, if true - and it had better be true.'

`It will, so help me. Well, while I was eating breakfast this morning - this afternoon,
rather - I saw that missing factor in the theory. And don't tell me it was because I was
rested up and fresh, either - I know it.'

`I was refraining heroically from mentioning the fact.'

`Thanks so much. Well, the knotty point, you remember, was what could be the possible
effect of a small electric current in liberating the power. I think I've got it. It must shift the