That's rather awkwardly expressed, but it's the best I can do." "I quite understand," broke in the doctor.

"You mean the sort of power which certain Indian fakirs undoubtedly possess ?" "Yes," said Varick.

"And, as I said just now Bubbles has got Indian blood in her veins.

One of her ancestors actually did marry an Indian lady of high degree, and Bubbles is descended from one of the children of that marriage." "I think that may account for the potency of her gift," said Sir Lyon thoughtfully, "though, of course, many Europeans have had, and now possess, these curious powers." "But though, in a sense, spiritualism is no new thing, even those who believe in it admit that it has never led to anything," observed Varick musingly.
"Very rarely, I admit; but still, sometimes even a dream has contained a revelation of sorts.

Thus it is on positive record that a dream revealed the truth as to what was called the Murder of the Red Barn." "Can I take it that you do believe the dead return ?" asked the doctor abruptly.
"I think," said Sir Lyon deliberately, "that certain of the dead desire ardently to return--not always from the best motives.