27/33 Whatever I do for you, you have it in your power to repay me amply for hereafter." I met the steady glance of his keen eyes, and a sense of some indestructible force within me gave me a sudden courage. "I trust you completely, though I do not know why I do so." "You will know before long. You are satisfied of the fact that my touch can influence you ?" "Yes; most thoroughly." "Very well. All other explanations, if you desire them, shall be given you in due time. In the power I possess over you and some others, there is neither mesmerism nor magnetism--nothing but a purely scientific fact which can be clearly and reasonably proved and demonstrated. |