He wasn't the ghost-raisin' kind of spiritualist, and them that went to see a show, come away dissap'inted, for all he did was to talk and take up a collection.

He said he was a new beginner and used to be a Presbyterian minister.

Doc stayed after it was over and had a talk with Gilson, and of course he got converted, like he always did.
He told ma so.
"I hadn't been havin' much talk with Doc one way or another, but when ma told me he had jined the spiritualists I eased up a litt, and one day I made bold to say, 'Well, Doc, I s'pose now you have give up that Shakespeare foolishness, ain't you ?' "'No, Loreny,' he says, 'I ain't.' "'Land's sakes!' I says, 'do you mean to say you can be two things at once in religion, as well as bein' Shakespeare and Doc Weaver ?' "'Yes, Loreny,' he says.

'The spirit has got to be somewheres between the times it has got a body,' he says, 'That stands to reason.

It's always puzzled me where I was between the time I died two or three hundred years ago and the time I entered this body,' he says, 'and spiritualism makes it all clear.