At any rate, some dusky old hypnotizer has been
sent after it!"
"You'd better get a new dream book!" Sandy broke in. "Whoever came
to the window tonight, came there to find out what we were doing in
this cabin! That's all there is to that!"
"Whoever came to the window tonight," Will repeated, "came there
for the purpose of hypnotizing one of us boys into telling where
the Little Brass God is hidden!"
"Then he must be about fourteen miles off his trolley," laughed
Sandy. "We don't know where the Little Brass God is hidden."
"He threw an Oriental perfume or narcotic of some, kind into the
room and let out his persuasive language," Will went on. "If you
don't believe he hypnotized Thede, just ask him what he heard just
before he got out of bed."
"I heard some one calling to me," Thede answered.
"What did he say?"
"He told me to come to him."
"And you was obeying that command when you started toward the
window?"
"I guess that's right," answered the boy, "but it's all so hazy
that I don't know much about it."
"And then I fired at the window and broke the spell and also the
pane of glass!" explained Will. "If he comes back here again, I'll
shoot from the outside! We can't be kept awake nights by any East
Indian magic.
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