Such, evidently, was he no longer.
"Would you like to see the haunted room ?" He heard Varick ask the question in that deep, musical voice which many people found so attractive.

Helen eagerly assented, and they disappeared together.
Sir Lyon and Bill Donnington went off to the library, and for a few moments Blanche Farrow and Miss Burnaby were alone together in the hall.
"Your niece seems to have very remarkable psychic gifts," said the old lady hesitatingly.
And Blanche suddenly remembered--Why, of course! Miss Burnaby had been one of the people most strongly affected by what had happened the night before; she must choose her words carefully.

So, "Bubbles has a remarkable gift of thought-reading," she answered quietly.

"Personally I am quite convinced that it's not anything more." "Are you ?" There was a curious, questioning look on Miss Burnaby's usually placid face.

"D'you think then, that what happened last night was _all_ thought-reading ?" "Certainly I think so! But I admit that perhaps I am not a fair judge, for I haven't the slightest belief in what Bubbles would call occultism." "I know a lady who goes in for all that sort of thing," said Miss Burnaby slowly.