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Edward Dudding, Britain's leading expert on Medieval life and superstition, pays a visit to Alfred Smythe, secretary of the National Science Association. Smythe says "Blast it all, Dudding. I almost wish you hadn't been so brutally honest in your report on that Carswell paper". Dudding asks "Why, what's the trouble?" Smythe says "Oh, he's such a frightful fellow. He's raising a terrible row". Dudding asks "You mean Carswell himself?" Smythe says "Yes, it's bad enough a vicious charlatan like that calling himself a scientist, but now he's taking all his vindictiveness out on me". Dudding says "Well, sorry old chap, it's really me he would like to get at". Smythe says "As a matter of fact, that's just what his last letter was about. He wants to know what supposed authority wrote the report rejecting his paper". Dudding says "You didn't give him my name". Smythe says "Heavens, no. As a matter of fact, Dunning, I haven't and I won't and for a very special reason. Call it silly, call it crazy, call it what you will, but I have an uncanny feeling about that man, Carswell. Do you know anything about him?" Dudding says "Nothing. I've never seen him. I only know that he wrote a paper called the Truth of Alchemy. It was hopeless". Smythe asks "Precisely, and why was it hopeless?" Dudding says "Well, besides being abominably written, it was supposed to prove that alchemy, black magic and such rot actually exist. I think the man really believes it". Smythe says "Undoubtedly he does, and that's what I mean. He lives in an isolated old house in Warwickshire. He's rarely seen elsewhere and in his whole career he's written only two things, this paper and the history of witchcraft, published ten years ago".

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