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"Shall we not sing something 'We Shall Meet Beyond the River, or some ditty like that?" Thereat Kate said: "Doctor, you betray astonishing familiarity with the ways of 'spooks." "Oh, I know everything." "I begin to believe it," she retorted. "I begin to suspect that you are a secret adherent. Morton, you would better tie Dr. Weissmann, otherwise he may speak from the cone himself."
Clarke folded his arms in defiant mood. "I am." "And this charming girl is your victim the one for whom you make such claims, eh?" Clarke regarded the old man with imperious lift of the head. "She is, without question, the most marvellous psychic in the world." "'Psychic!" Weissmann barked this word at him like an angry mastiff.
"It is quite impossible, professor; perhaps some other time." Viola yielded to her mother and went away to get her cloak, and Morton turned to Clarke. "One of the conditions of my promise to organize a committee is this: you and Pratt must be excluded from the circle." Weissmann echoed this. "Quite right! That we demand." The clergyman's face hardened. "You ask the impossible.
The gods, one might say in Goethian phrase, did not intend us to share their own manner of being; or, if you prefer it, in the language of Darwin or Weissmann, creatures who died of sheer bliss, were unable to rear a family and to found a species. Pleasures which I would rather call, but for the cumbersome words, items of happiness.
American zoölogists have been especially inclined toward Lamarck's ideas. Until Weissmann startled the scientific world with his sharp denial of the possibility of transmitting to offspring any growth acquired by the parents, all seemed well.
The preacher was in full flow turgid, studiedly ornate, egotistical, and bombastic, but the final effect, even upon Weissmann, was that of one deluded, rather than of one carrying on a deep and far-reaching system of deception.
Furthermore, he has embraced 'spiritism, as he calls it, with both arms. By-the-way, professor, I've been talking about these psychic matters with Weissmann and others, and I agree with him that you're the very man to go into an investigation of these occult forces." "And be called insane, as Zöllner was?" "Oh, well, times have softened since then.
Weissmann looked up abstractedly. "If Clarke performed these feats to-night he is wasting his time in any profession but jugglery. You said the cone touched you?" he asked of Morton. "Several times." "To do that he must have left his seat." "I am perfectly sure he did not," replied Kate, firmly. Morton insisted. "He must have done so, Kate there is no other explanation of what took place.
Clarke shrugged his shoulders. "You can do as you wish. The guides say their manifestations are antagonized by light and that darkness is necessary for these special phenomena of the cone." "Oh, we have no cone!" exclaimed Mrs. Lambert. "Cone? What cone?" asked Weissmann. "We need some sort of megaphone to enlarge the spirit-voices." "Make one of card-board," suggested Viola.
As the coffee came in Kate rose with a word of caution: "Morton, we'll expect you to join us soon " "You may depend upon us," replied Weissmann. "And you mustn't talk out all the interesting subjects save some of them for us to hear." "We shall not be able to talk on any other subject than yourselves," retorted Weissmann, gallantly, "and that would not be good for you to hear." Kate laughed.
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