Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 43 — page 42: what you’re looking at

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TO-MORROW IS struck by something rather queer about you. Though I am telepathic, the sense is very tiring to use, except with other telepaths—we call them ‘sensitives—and most of them have never had the faculty developed and in- stinctively resist any attempt at contact. But you, I noticed at once, were unusual. So I probed your mind casually— without malice, you under- stand—and found, not one mind, but two. Your mind, one might say, is tuned to someone else’s. Don’t ask me how this is possible now. “In short, I took a sample of your thoughts. They appalled me. The person who is in resonance with you was steadily attempting to drive you insane. Can you feel those dream-images now?” Astonished, Michel tenta- tively relaxed his will, half afraid of renewing conscious contact with those horrors. After a moment, he shut his eyes and concentrated. When he opened them again, they were shining. He shook 4} ANOTHER DAY his head. “‘How do you do it?” “T’ve got a high-powered baffie round the room that nothing short of a dozen minds, working in concert, could force down. I also got overtones of other informa- tion, and when I put it together I went to my rooms as soon as the bank shut, and started looking for another sen- sitive on the developed level. “I was lucky. I got hold of a man named Guiscard— Philip Guiscard—almost im- mediately. He is the leading sensitive in Britain, and al- most seven hundred years old. He confirmed what your mind had told me. “Broadly speaking there are two types and two parties” among the sensitives. First you'll have to accept that the sensitives, in spite of being ‘fantastically in a minority, control humanity. A dema- gogue with a sensitive mind can convert more people than one who can only rant. You see? But we don’t work so blatantly, normally. “The two types of sensitives conmicloooks.com