Tuesday, June 23, 2009

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The circle did not break up at once. The visitors wanted to talk, and the Maileys to listen.


«My perceptions,» said he, «are not so dull that I should have failed to observe the relations which have been established between my daughter and yourself. This question however, has become entangled with the other which we were discussing. You have b
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«Animal magnetism, ectoplasm – in fact, power. That is the most comprehensive word. The Christ used that word. `Much power has gone out of me`. It is `dunamis` in the Greek, but the translators missed the point and translated it `virtue`. If a good Gre

«If, my dear Malone, I can help you to get this taint – what shall we call it? – microbus spiritualensis – out of your system, I am at your service. I shall be happy to devote a little of my spare time to exposing those specious fallacies to which you

The spectacles flashed round again.


But Mailey now int! ervened and with such authority that Challenger was forced to listen.


«Undoubtedly.»


Malone grinned over the receiver.


«Criminology, I presume?»


«Telepathy, perhaps.»


«Give three tilts, Wee One.»


«I call Henrietta Dresser.»


«There is another more ordinary analogy. Have you been in a warm room with a wet dog?»


«Is it you or Miromar who is talking now?»


«Please, sir, your brother Silas is below.» The two looked at each other with some dismay.


«Splendid! Any directions for me?»


Enid consulted a business-like little reporter`s notebook. «We have done seven. There was Westminster Abbey for the Church in its most picturesque form, and Saint Agatha for the High Church, and Tudor Place for the Low. Then there was the Westminster C

«What, has Willie sauced you?»


«Well, then, we have to consider the question of Terbane`s normal knowledge.! How can you possibly know what he has learned? I should think a railway-porter is particularly able to pick up such information.»


«Then we shall apply for the warrant. You see, it all depends upon which magistrate it comes before. There was Mr. Dalleret who let a medium off last month. He is no we to us. And Mr. Lancing has been mixed up with these people. Mr. Melrose is a stiff

She gave two more descriptions to the audience, both of them rather vague, and both recognized with some reservations. It was a curious fact that her details were such as she could not possibly see at the distance. Thus, dealing with a form which she c

«Gawd be praised! Gawd be thanked!» cried a voice.


«Which was exactly what ruined them,» said Smith.


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Challenger`s huge head swung round and his lion`s glare rested upon his daughter.


«No, no, I don`t blame her! She will know better some day. The day is coming soon when all truth will be manifest and all these corrupt Churches will be swe! pt off the earth with their cruel doctrines and their caricatures of God.»


He was looking at her with the medium`s gaze in his light grey eyes – that gaze which looks round and through a thing rather than at it.


«Silas Linden, you are a fool! Can`t a parent c`rect `is own child?»


«Mediumship can be developed» said Mrs. Mailey. «One might almost say it was catching.»


«All right,» said he in a sulky voice, «I`ll sign.» He was allowed to rise with a warning that if he played any tricks he would not get off so lightly the second time. But there was no kick left in him and he scrawled a big, coarse « Silas Linden « at

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

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The fat president rose and raised his hand.


«Really, you try my patience too far. Have I not said –?»


«You are far too hasty, dear Dr. Ross Scotton!» she cried. «Professor Challenger has had no time to understand this. You were just as sceptical yourself at first. How can you blame him?»


«We must follow, Madge. She is smiling and waving.»


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«Thanks, I have seen quite enough,» said the pompous mystic, all the pomposity shaken out of him. «I confess that it has been rather too much for my nerves.»


«I`ll get you one at a time,» he growled, looking back with his angry pigs` eyes at the outer door of the flats. «You wait my lads, and see!» Then with sudden purpose he swung off down the street.


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«It was you that wanted something. You wanted knowledge.»


«There is Roxton,» said he. « He`s not a chicken, but he is a useful man in a row. I think I could get him. He has been keen on your subject since his Dorsetshire experience.»


«Down to the `Admiral Vernon`. There`s a chance of a job as sparrin` partner to Long Davis. He goes into training on Monday and needs a man of my weight.»


The words were hardly out of his mouth when the curtains were torn open with sudden violence and a rattling of all! the rings. In the dark aperture there was outlined a vague white figure. It advanced slowly and with hesitation into the centre of the ro

«Do you mean to insinuate, sir, that I am capable of cheating?» trumpeted Challenger.


«What have they been a-doin` of?» asked Silas with a scowl. When this worthy pair could get no change out of each other, they usually united their forces against the children. He had entered the sitting-room and flung himself down in the wooden armchai

«It is a monstrous proposition,» said Challenger, glaring all round him.


She put her little work-worn hands over his high forehead and held them there in silence.


The voice trailed off and the trumpet fell.


«Well, Professor, we are all accused of it in turn,» said Mailey smiling. «We all feel as indignant as you are at first, but after a time you get used to it. I`ve been called a liar, a lunatic – goodness knows what. What does it matter?»

«There is no doubt that Banderby is the strongest physical medium in England,» said Smith. «But we all know what his personal character is. You could not rely upon him.»


«They will form a horrible block of vibrations! We must have some of our own sympathetic people to counteract it. There is Delicia Freeman. She would come. I could come myself. You would come, Mason?»


» Not at all,» said Mailey. « I think that his case now would do good in the police court, for it would show the public that we are determined to keep our house clean. I`ll give you one minute for consideration, Linden, and then I ring up the police.»<

«Science can be heroic,» said Mailey. «Who can deny it? And yet I have heard these very scientific men tell us that we imperil our reason when we try to get in touch with spiritual forces. Gladly would we sacrifice our reason, or our lives, if we could

«Yes – I wanted to ask – «


«How far have you got?» asked Challenger.


«Why, there is a hand holding ! it!» he cried, with sudden suspicion.


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«They`ve been seein` Number One again.»


«This is Nurse Ursula,» said Miss Delicia. «Nurse, let me present you to the famous Professor Challenger.» Challenger was great in his manner towards women, especially if the particular woman happened to be a young and pretty girl. He advanced now as S

The stricken couple who spent their lives in bringing comfort to others were sadly in need of comfort themselves. She put her arm round his neck while they read the cheerless document:


«Vox populi, Enid. That is as far as the public has got at present.»


«You may have my share of his caresses!» cried the sitter in a quavering voice.


«Only that we would help you if you and the young lady wanted to go further in the matter. Not for publicity, mind you, but just for your own good – though we don`t shrink from publicity, either. I have psychical phenomena seances at my own home withou

«Well, I will if I can. That`s what I am! for.»


«Is this case defended?» asked Mr. Melrose.


The armchair was lifted inside the cloth tent and the medium followed, drawing the curtain behind him.


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«We will try to get a little closer. He has deep lines on his face. I should say he was an irritable man in his lifetime. He was quick and nervous in his ways. Does that help you?»


«Power run down,» said Mailey. «Poor lad, he held on to the last. He always did. That was how he died.


«What have they been a-doin` of?» asked Silas with a scowl. When this worthy pair could get no change out of each other, they usually united their forces against the children. He had entered the sitting-room and flung himself down in the wooden armchai

«Well, it is a concrete example of it. However, I am down a side-track. What I wanted to say to you is that you must not take Bolsover`s little spirit circus too seriously. It is honest as ! far as it goes, but it goes a mighty short way. It`s a disease,
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«Yes, lady, you died.»


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«Est ce que vous etes pretes?» asked Dr. Maupuis.


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«Yes, that`s right. He moves to you now. He was nearer the other. He wants to say he`s sorry. It doesn`t do, you know, to have hard feelings to the dead. Forgive and forget. It`s all over. I get a message for you. It is: `Do it and my blessing go with

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«I know. And that I was a demon. Oh, it is rotten, rotten, rotten, and rotten things will fall!» His voice broke in a sob.


«A grey powder?»


«He is speaking of Lord Macartney. That would be over a hundred years ago. Chang was a great living philosopher then,» Mailey explained.


Torn Linden took a pound note from his desk.


«It is not often I give a reading from the platform,» said she, her face rotating between him and the audience, «but we have friends here to-night, and it may interest them to come in contact with the spirit people. There is a presence building up behi

«What`s that?» he cried, sharply.


So they waited. It was a weary time. A carriage clock had been placed on the discoloured wooden mantelpiece, and slowly its hands crept on from one to two and from two to three. Outside an owl was hooting most dismally in the darkness. The villa was on

«`E`s off again!» said she. «It fair gets on my ! nerves to see him. Come `ere, Silas! `Ave a look!»


Amy Bellinger was the next witness. She appeared with her notebook in her hand.


«What is the meaning of this intrusion?» the lion roared. The small lady was, however, entirely unabashed. She smiled sweetly at the glowering face.


«We get it now and again in the light, Mr. Malone,» said Bolsover. «I don`t know if Wee One is gone yet. Wait a bit! Where are the matches?» He lit the candle, which set them all blinking after their long darkness, «Now let us see what we can do.»


«Moving, perhaps, and yet I cannot claim to be altogether with you yet. The latent powers of the human incarnate spirit may be so wonderful that they may extend to regions which seem at present to be quite beyond their scope. As an old materialist, I f

Next morning a scared maid broke into Linden`s modest study. «Please sir, it`s an officer.»


«Hold your jaw, woman! I`ve had enough to vex ! me to-day without you startin` your tantrums. You`re jealous of the grave. That`s wot`s the matter with you.»


«What about your song, Wee One?» asked Bolsover.


«What danger can there be?»


Quite a number of people had gathered for the seance, some of them old psychic students who were mildly interested, others, beginners who looked about them with rather startled eyes, wondering what was going to happen next. A tall man was standing near

«By science,» said someone maliciously, «you mean, of course, men like Sir William Crookes, Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir William Barrett, Lombroso, Richet, and so forth.»


«Victor speaks. Victor. He shall not hurt my Medi. I have a message. For him!»


«Do you mean to insinuate, sir, that I am capable of cheating?» trumpeted Challenger.


«It sounds very learned.» said Enid.