Van
Emmon concluded:
"We've just got to give 'em fire! What's the first step?"
"I propose," from the doctor, "that when we get in touch this time
we concentrate on the idea of fire. We've got to give them the
notion first."
"Would you rather," inquired Billie, "that I kept the idea from
Supreme?"
"Thanks," returned her husband, icily, "but you might just as well
tell her, too. It'll make her afraid in advance, all the better!"
The engineer threw himself back in his seat. "I'm with you," said
he, laying aside his argument. The rest followed his example, and
presently were looking upon Sanus again.
All told, this particular session covered a good many hours. The
four kept up a more or less connected mental conversation with each
other as they went along, except, of course, when the events became
too exciting. Mainly they were trying to catch their agents in the
proper mood for receiving telepathic communications, and it proved
no easy matter. It required a state of semi-consciousness, a
condition of being neither awake nor asleep.
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