“You can put Robbie to sleep.�

She nodded. “How did you know?�

“I have been watching you.�

“You don’t think there is any harm in it?� she questioned in a troubled voice.

“Perhaps not, yet I do not think I would exercise my power in that way. It might weaken the lad’s will. I am sure you would not willingly do him harm.�

“Oh, no, indeed! I never mean to do any one any harm. I have sometimes played jokes on the dudes at the hotels, or occasionally punished some one, as Mrs. Wylie told you.�

“There is a person whom I wish you would punish, if it be in your power.�

“And that is—?�

“Professor Russell. You know who he is, and what he has done. If he comes here again, use all the power you possess to get control of that man.�

“What shall do with him if I can hypnotize him?�