"Last year I had a patient who'd become insane owing to what I suppose you would call an investigation into psychic phenomena." "And yet," said Sir Lyon rather sternly, "to your mind, Dr.Panton, a pursuit which you admit was capable of leading one unfortunate human being into insanity, is 'all bosh'!" "Of course I could only go by what the poor lady's friends told me," Panton said uncomfortably.

"She was not under my care long.

But I need hardly tell you, Sir Lyon, that any obsession that takes hold of a human being may in time lead to insanity." "I suppose that, according to your theory"-- it was now Varick who was speaking, speaking rather lightly, twirling his stick about as he spoke--"I suppose," he repeated, "that, according to your theory, if Bubbles Dunster left Wyndfell Hall to-morrow, the spirits would cease from troubling, and we should be at rest ?" "No, that doesn't exactly follow.

I once heard of a case which interested me very much.

A house which had never been haunted before--as far as anyone knew--became so, following on the sojourn there of a professional medium, and it remained haunted for four years.