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MODERN SPIRITISM
is dreadful. I can't bear it." It took some time to
quiet her down, and I asked what was the matter.
"Oh," she said, "that was a shock. That is a very
wicked stone, and it's very, very old. I hear shouts
and cries of battle. It all seems so strange, and old,
and wicked. What is it? Do you know?" Of
course I knew well, for there are few round stones
associated with such scenes as this, which she discovered
in a moment.
An Asylum Chaplain
A young clergyman, whom she had never seen,
then held up the gold cross pendant from his watchchain
and asked her to take it. She held it to her
forehead a moment, and of course I now expected
something holy and beautiful. Not a bit of it. "Oh,
how horrible! I hear shrieks and yells and all
sorts of queer
it?"
noises. Where am I ? What is
I looked with surprise at the young man, who,
however, did not seem much astonished. "I was
chaplain in a lunatic asylum," he said, "for years,
and I
suppose that's what she hears."
Such powers, it is obvious, would account for
much that happens at seances, especially when I
reveal the means by which, unconsciously to the
psychometrist, it is done. This was told me in
another interview.
Psychometrist in Harley Street
A physician I know in Harley Street has himself
remarkable powers in psychometry. One afternoon
I sat in his drawing-room, accompanied by a friend