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"If you will all be seated again, please? " requested Mr. Wynne, who still stood, cool and self-certain, at the end of the table.
The sound of his voice brought a returning calm to the others, and they resumed their seats -- all save Mr. Cawthorne, who walked over to a window with the three spheres in his hand and stood there examining them under his glass.