"The
dream was six hours before the race, and tallied very closely with the
phraseology used by the radio narrator. Here." He picked up a copy of
Tyrrell's _Science and Psychical Phenomena_ and leafed through it.
"Did this fellow cash in on it?" Rand asked.
"No. He was a Quaker, and violently opposed to betting. Here." He handed
the book to Rand. "Case Twelve."
Rand sat down on the edge of the desk, and read the section indicated,
about three pages in length.
"Well, I'll be damned!" he said, as he finished. The idea of anybody
passing up a chance like that to enrich himself literally smote him to
the vitals. "I see the British Society for Psychical Research checked
that case, and got verification from a couple of independent witnesses.
If the S.P.R. vouches for a story, it must be the McCoy; they're the
toughest-minded gang of confirmed skeptics anywhere in Christendom. They
take an attitude toward evidence that might be advantageously copied by
most of the district attorneys I've met, the one in this county being no
exception.... What's this story you're working on?"
"Oh, it's based on Dunne's precognition theories, plus a few ideas of my
own, plus a theory of alternate lines of time-sequence for alternate
probabilities," Pierre said.
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