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160 MODERN SPIRITISM
the waiting room all the patients looked up. "Ha,"
exclaimed Dr. Bramwell, "whoever is that sitting
cross-legged on the table?" and pointing to nothing
with great earnestness and excitement. "Why, I
declare it's a Turk with his scarlet fez, smoking a long
pipe." "Look, doctor! Look!" he almost shouted.
"He is rising! Can you see? Look under him.
You can now see the light between him and the
table!" The visitor bent his head to look, and
several of the patients did the same.
"Now, now," he called out excitedly, "his head
almost touches the ceiling! There, he has touched
it ! He can't get any higher
!
Yes, he can ! There !
his head is going through the ceiling
!
Look, doctor !"
he shouted. The visitor stared up, and so did every
one in the room, as Dr. Bramwell graphically
described the Turk slowly and gradually disappearing
through the ceiling, till at last his feet were gone.
"He's vanished!" said Dr. Bramwell. "Come
along;" and he took the visitor back into his consulting
room.
The Danger
"Now," he said, "I want you to understand the
importance of what you have just witnessed. All
in that room are perfectly certain they have seen a
Turk sitting, smoking, cross-legged, on my dining
table, and then slowly rise and disappear through
the ceiling; and what is more, one and all would on
their oath testify to the supposed fact before any
magistrate in perfect good faith."
In this way things may be truthfully sworn to
that never occurred, and thus the condition may