either speed up or slow down the time-stream of whatever it is pointed
at. The final angle is formed by this movable bar in its relation to the
whole. By its manipulation, time can be indefinitely retarded or
hastened. He utilized the bizarre creation in this way:

"In New York he contacted a quite innocent party by the name of Sylvia
Crane. He hypnotized her, and forced his spirit into her body while hers
was held in abeyance. Then 'Madame Sin' registered here. She made
acquaintance with Weems. On the roof garden, she pointed the infernal
figure at him, with the little bar turned to retard time. The result was
that Weems suddenly lived and moved at immensely retarded speed. It took
about twenty-four hours for his arm to raise the champagne glass to his
lips, though he thought it took a second. Our actions were so swift by
comparison that they didn't register on his consciousness at all. He
confessed after I'd brought him out of his odd time-state with the
device, that he seemed to raise his glass while in the roof garden, and
start to lower it when he found himself abruptly in Doctor Grays'
bedroom. He didn't know how he got there or anything else. It was the
same with the nine in the roulette room. They came back to normal speed
only a second or two after being retarded in the roulette room. But it
was hours to us, and meanwhile they seemed absolutely motionless."

"How on earth did you ever get a hint of such a thing as this?" said
Beatrice.

"Weems' watch gave a pointer. It was all right, the jeweler said, but it
wouldn't run. Well, it did run--but at a speed so slow that it could not
be recorded. The roulette wheel was another. The ivory ball did not roll
down the side of the wheel because the wheel was rotating--with infinite
slowness after being retarded by the same thing that made the people
look like frozen statues. Satan, as Madame Sin, couldn't do anything
about the wheel. But he--or 'she'--could and did take the watches from
all concerned, to guard against discovery that way. However, there was
no chance to get Weems' watch; there were always people around."

"You said Doctor Satan moved in the body of Chichester as he did in the
girl's body."

"Yes. I got a hint of that when I observed that Chichester and Madame
Sin never seemed to be in evidence at the same time. Also because the
exact sum of Blue Bay's cash reserve was so readily learned. Again when
Wilson was killed in a room where only the three o