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in this case, psychokinesis, the art of moving things around by mental power. He had had indifferent suc- cess in controlling the roll of dice, and was inventing a mental "booster" to try to increase his power. This was no more than an electroencephalograph, the out- put of which was used to modulate the output of a powerful short-wave unit salvaged from an old dia- thermy machine. The energy was then focussed onto a little table, on which lay the dice, At this point he was aware of a stir of interest from the girl, whose icy facade had up to then been impenatrable. And then began the first of the strange, flickering interchanges that soon nearly replaced clumsy verbal conversation between them: "FM? No, AM, look, FM's easier, look!" In a split second, she had asked whether his unit used frequency modulation; he had replied that it did not, and produced a circut diagram illustrating the amplitude modulation he had used; she had reached into his mind and modified the diagram to one she felt was easier!

At this point, a feeling of mutual respect began to dilute the blind fear and hate with which they had regarded each other. With mutual consent they rose from the floor, and jointly prepared a dish of ice cubes and water in which she immersed her afflicted hand. She took pains to sit so that the mirror did not reflect her tangled hair.

Before continuing his account, he started another interchange: "EH? junior, working, How? Exotic."

And so he learned that she was leading a very strange double life; a student of electrical engineering by day, an exotic dancer in a night club to pay the tuition. Turning back to the explanation, he had wired his scalp to the equipment, arranging that a sort of

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