And yet he felt impelled to go on, for what had happened in the hall yesterday afternoon had moved and interested him as he had not thought to be interested and moved again.
"The woman saw nothing," he said, slowly and impressively, "till Miss Dunster arrived at Wyndfell Hall.

I take that to mean that Miss Dunster is a very strong medium." "A medium ?" repeated the doctor scoffingly.

"Who says medium surely says charlatan, Sir Lyon--not to say something worse than charlatan!" Sir Lyon looked thoughtfully at the younger man.

"I admit that often mediums are charlatans--or rather, they begin by being mediums pure and simple, and they end by being mediums _qua_ charlatans.

The temptations which lie in their way are terrible, especially if, as in the majority of cases, they make a living by their--their"-- he hesitated--"their extraordinary, as yet misunderstood, and generally mishandled gift." "Do you mean," asked Varick gravely, "that you believe Bubbles possesses the power of raising the dead ?" Sir Lyon did not answer at once, but at last he said firmly: "Either the dead, or some class of intermediate spirits who personate the human dead.