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England from the strain of the Bloody Assizes. Mr. Marvin could 

 muffle the bell of St. Germain l'Auxerrois and the name of St. Bartholo- 

 mew would lose its dark suggestion. Miss Lucy Wilkins could leave us 

 to the north of Cologne and in the time of St. Ursula. This good 

 woman could be turned from her useless quest and her sad host of 

 martyred virgins could each become a German Hausfrau. Again, our 

 fair friend from Fideletown, Miss Violet Dreeme, could find scope for 

 her powers in the rescue of Guinevere. These serve simply as illus- 

 trations. We may vary them as we please. 



"The preliminary difficulties once surmounted, the auroral turn- 

 table once in operation and in the hands of a few hundred adepts, mis- 

 sionaries of the present to the past, the tangled jungles of history would 

 be turned to a field of the Cloth of Gold. By keeping open telepathic 

 connection with the esoteric clubs at home, we can inform the world 

 that is, of the progress of our work, and the changes we make in history 

 could be announced in our schools. 



"Grand indeed is our conception," said Professor Gridley, "and it is 

 not far from realization. The initial expense is but a trifle. A few 

 hundred dollars in tense springs, clockwork and dynamos, a table of 

 the finest rosewood and the service of a skilled mechanic, an adept in 

 electricity and skilled in astral impersonation, and it is done. 



"More than this," continued Professor Gridley impressively, "all 

 this is already provided. I have here a letter from the editor of the 

 New York Sunday 'Monarch,' an offer of all expenses and a generous 

 salary in return for the first telepathic advices, going back beyond the 

 present century. For each preceding century, the sum will be doubled. 

 I have, indeed, contracted with the great journal for the exclusive ac- 

 count of my interviews with the great Bacon, whose noble but polluted 

 nature it shall be my life work to redeem." 



