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 kinds of spirits but don’t know the breed called wireless spirits,” I admitted.

“I was introduced to one in London. One evening an operator from one of the who was interested in magic, spiritualism and all that sort of thing, wanted me to go with him to see a performance of  and  Mysteries at  in Langham Place, W. C.

“The mysteries of these mystifiers were mystical enough to mystify the most mysterious and I saw everything from the wonderful East Indian rope trick to the equally wonderful spirit rapping table. David Devant, the celebrated conjurer, exhibited the table and he said—and nobody in the audience disputed him—that the table possessed the ghostly property of connecting this world with the next, the quick with the dead, that which is now with that which is to be, and that it would rap out answers to any questions which might be asked to prove it.

“Some of the wiseacres present laughed lightly at the conjurer’s immaterial remarks but he assured them on his honor as a gentleman its guiding spirit was no lesser an (astral)