AFTERWARDS When I awoke to consciousness I was in my bedroom.

For some time I could not gather up my scattered senses; my mind refused to exercise its proper functions.

Presently I heard some one speak.
"I had no idea he was so far gone," a voice said.

"You see, his power of resistance is very great, and it needed four times the magnetism to bring him under that it did your servant." "I'm sorry you experimented on him at all," said another voice.
"Oh, I can assure you no harm's done.

There, you see, he's coming to." I felt something cold at my temples, then a strange shivering sensation passed over me, and I was awake.
Voltaire, Kaffar, Tom Temple, and Simon Slowden were in the room.