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“He began by telling us to watch Jane’s thumb. The tip of it began to glow. It seemed to be an internal suffusing of the flesh with a cold white light. There was no radiant effect, merely the changing color of the flesh itself. Since the hand was in shadow, there was no mistaking the change.
“The glow spread up the length of the thumb to the mound of flesh at its base, next to the palm. ‘Watch the mound,’ Seth said, with more than a little satisfaction. ‘See the color change and the shadows in the palm disappear? If you want a demonstration, then you shall have it, silly as it is … And now the wrist. See it thicken and turn white?’
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“Seth now had this cold inner light suffuse Jane’s wrist and palm to an even more remarkable degree. At the joining of hand and wrist, the flesh rose up in an egglike lump. The white crept up Jane’s arm to the sweater, and bled down her fingers, until all semblance of shadow was gone from the arm and palm. Then to end this part of the demonstration, Seth had Jane place her hands side by side on the table, so that we could plainly see the difference between the two. Gradually the hand returned to normal, and Seth instructed us to take a rest period.
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