Instead, developing that film, he had brought, to wave before Roger’s startled eyes, an impossible thing.
On that film, in a different position on each Frame, or individual picture, a spectral monkey and an equally indistinct kangaroo hopped, bounced, and skipped, finally vanishing into thin air!
Chapter 6
A WEIRD STORY
When that uncanny film was projected before him Grover seemed unwilling to believe the testimony of his eyes.
“It simply could not be,” he declared. “That film was taken from a brand new shipment, wasn’t it?”
“Yes,” Roger asserted.
“And there were no animals in the laboratory.”
“Not animals we could see,” said Doctor Ryder meaningly.
Grover, rather sharply, demanded his exact reason for saying that.
“I have heard the voices that seem to come out of nowhere,” the experimenter explained. “I have traveled in the Oriental countries. I have heard strange things; and I have seen things even more odd. In India, in China, and all the more in Tibet, there is what they call the sect of the Bon—Black Magicians.”