And he saw, even as he was uttering the lying words, a look of intense relief come over Varick's face.

"But to my mind Miss Brabazon evidently saw the rare phenomenon known as a materialization.

Miss Bubbles was lying asleep in the confessional which is almost exactly opposite the door through which one enters the hall from the house side, thus the necessary conditions were present." "I wish _I_ had been present!" exclaimed the doctor.

"Either I should have seen nothing, or, if I had seen anything, I should have managed to convince myself that what I saw was flesh and blood." As neither of his two companions said anything in answer to that observation, Panton went on, speaking with more hesitation, but also with more seriousness than he had yet shown: "Do I understand you to mean, Sir Lyon, that you credit our young fellow-guest with supernatural gifts denied to the common run of mortals ?" "I should not put it quite that way," answered Sir Lyon.

"But yes, I suppose I must admit that I do credit Miss Bubbles with powers which no one as yet has been able to analyze or explain--though a great many more intelligent people than has ever been the case before, are trying to find a natural explanation." "If that is so," asked the doctor, "why have you yourself given up such an extraordinarily important and valuable investigation ?" "Because," said Sir Lyon, "I consider my own personal investigations yielded a definite result." "And that result-- ?" "-- was that what I prefer to call by the old term of occultism makes for evil rather than for good.