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to the conclusion that an individual under proper conditions can cast forth his soul from his body, leaving the body dead and useless since its driving power is gone. Gentlemen, we waited there for hours, and presently this soul appeared—a gaunt, wraithlike substance which I felt rather than saw. I knew what it would try to do, this astral self of Rolf Jaeke's. I knew what it had done in the cases of the other victims. Enraged by the verdict of the jury, the maddened mind of the hunchback sought about for a way of revenge. He had long practised this sending of his inner being on pilgrimages into the unknown. Now he decided he had a sure method for revenge. He east out his soul from his body, the soul taking instant flight to the victim to whom it was directed. In the first case—that of the mayor—the rebel soul was not strong enough to root out the other while Mr. Andrews was awake so he waited till he slept, and the driving force sleeping with the body, his work was easy. With merciless precision the one soul—the soul of evil—rooted out the other, taking its place. Thus the soul of Rolf Jaeke became the driving power behind Jason Andrews. The body was the same, the brain the same, the intellect the same—all save the driving force behind. The fact that for a moment—and in the case of the hunchback for hours—the body was without life made little difference, for the body being perfectly healthy could take up life where it was left off when the original soul returned.

"I see, gentlemen, that some of you are astounded, that some of you are incredulous, but wait—how many of you here believed ten years ago that there could be a radio; how many in this world believed only a short time ago that there could be an airplane, a submarine, a phonograph,