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312 I did not seem to get any nearer to this figure, yet I must have floated about with it in view for some hours. Its hands were outstretched, and its ringers and the nails were of prodigious length, while the nails of its toes hung below the feet. I now began to remember the instructions given by the executioner as to the use and method of working the guiding apparatus; and my thoughts once started in this direction, all my instructions came to my memory in an instant. I remembered now his explanation about pressing the buttons of the right or left hand ball. I thought I should try pressing my right hand fingers on the buttons first. The moment I did this, I felt as if I had laid hold of an invisible rope travelling at a great speed. I was pulled away at an angle towards the right, and so fast was I moving that my body assumed a horizontal position. I was, as it were, flying forward. When I started, the figure was directly in front of me, but being drawn by this line of force towards the right, I passed at lightning speed to the