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The Black Box

CHAPTER VII
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Keep up your courage, Lenora.
You shall be free in an hour." The trapped man looked away from the instrument into Quest's face.

There was a momentary flicker of something that might have passed for courage in his tone.
"Mr.Quest," he said, "you are a wonderful man, but there are limits to your power.

You can tear my tongue from my mouth but you cannot force me to speak a word." Quest leaned a little further forward in his chair, his gaze became more concentrated.
"That is where you are wrong, Craig.

That is where you make a mistake.

In a very few minutes you will be telling me all the secrets of your heart." Craig shivered, drew back a little in his chair, tried to rise and fell back again helpless.
"My God!" he cried.


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