He flicked it into the air, and, to the amazement of every one, saving always Franklin Marmion, it rose slowly up to the cloudless sky, followed by the gaze of a hundred eyes, and vanished.
Then he bowed again to Brenda, and said in the most commonplace tone: "It is out of harm's way now.

Thank you once more for your condescension." "But how did it go up like that ?" asked Brenda, looking him frankly and somewhat defiantly in the eyes.
"That, Miss Huysman," he replied with perfect gravity, "was only a demonstration of what Spiritualists and Theosophists are accustomed to call levitation.

It is only a matter of reversing the force of gravity." "Is that all ?" laughed Brenda, as she turned away.

"You talk of it as though it were a matter of turning a paper bag inside out." "The one is as easy as the other," he smiled.

"It is only a question of knowing how to do it." She walked back to her chair very much mystified, and, for the first time in her so far triumphal journey through the interlude between the eternities which we call life, a trifle humiliated: but that fact, of course, she kept to herself.