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W. F. Van Vleck, of Ohio, to whom I am indebted for some of the facts contained in this chapter, can beat the Davenport brothers at their own game. In order that he might the better learn the various methods pursued by the professed "mediums" in deceiving the public, Dr.
Doctor Von Vleck to whom I referred in connection with my exposition of the Davenport imposture produces very loud "raps" before his audiences, and so modulates them that they will seem to be at any desired point in his vicinity; yet not a movement of his body betrays the fact that the sounds are caused by him.
This awoke him from his reverie, and he started up, looked around, and made his way back to the road. I have spoken only of the men who were employed at the office at the time I entered. Previous to my time were several who left to accept professorships in various parts of the country. Among them were Professors Van Vleck, of Middletown, and Hedrick and Kerr, of North Carolina.
"You know," he said, "there are no better people in the world than some of those New England seafaring families. The Merrithews, I believe, were very substantial. . . . So you see where your supposed wharf-rat acquired the manner which you marked in him, and his good English, and and well, whatever else you marked." "What is he going to do now?" asked Mrs. Van Vleck. "Oh, of course, the Tampico.
Van Vleck shrugged her shoulders expressively and raised her eyebrows. "Well," said the girl, "he'll be eminently eligible for the Captain's table of the Tampico. Somehow I wish he had done something unusual to-night. I had developed all sorts of strange fancies concerning him." Now, as a matter of fact, she did not wish that at all.
Wotherspoon say he was proselyted by Princeton. We've had more fights about it " "Well, he was proselyted," laughed Oddington, "stolen from us bodily." "Wasn't it some time ago?" asked Dan. "Why, that's just the point," said Mrs. Van Vleck. "It was at least five or six years ago. I am afraid Ralph and Reggie will never be able to realize they are not undergraduates." Oddington smiled.
If there were a few more "detectives" like Doctor Von Vleck, the whole mediumistic fraternity would soon "come to grief." In undertaking to show up the "Ancient and Modern Humbugs of the World," I am determined so far as in me lies, to publish nothing but the truth. This I shall do, "with good motives and for justifiable ends," and I shall do it fearlessly and conscientiously.
The exhibiting mediums must, of course, contrive new tricks as fast as Dr. Von Vleck and men like him show up their old ones. It is the universal method of all sorts of impostors to adopt new means of fooling people when their old ones are exposed. And Mr.
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