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Malone sat at the side table of the smoking-room of the Literary Club. / He had Enid's impressions of the séance before him -- very subtle and / observant they were -- and he was endeavouring to merge them in his own / experience. A group of men were smoking and chatting round the fire. / This did not disturb the journalist, who found, as many do, that his / brain and his pen worked best sometimes when they were stimulated by the / knowledge that he was part of a busy world. Presently, however, somebody / who observed his presence brought the talk round to psychic subjects, / and then it was more difficult for him to remain aloof. He leaned back / in his chair and listened.
Polter, the famous novelist, was there, a brilliant man with a subtle / mind, which he used too often to avoid obvious truth and to defend some / impossible position for the sake of the empty dialectic exercise. He was / holding forth now to an admiring, but not entirely a subservient / audience.