"I knew of several remarkable experiences in spiritism, and when I learned that he had gone to Mrs. Brand, I sent for her to ask what I might do, before I died, which would give me power after death to remain close to my son," Agnes continued to Ethel. "She said perhaps if I opened a channel now, I might find it useful later. I told her a little about him and myself. It seems that when she was in a trance at his next sitting with her, she was able to repeat to him not only what I told her but other things I hadn't mentioned."
"She certainly gave me a jump," Barney said and pressed his mother's hand.
"Then through that channel came the messages from your father, dear."
Ethel drew closer. "Then they were all from father?"
"I had nothing to do with them—except perhaps starting the current of our affairs flowing through the channel. Some people might say that all that followed were telepathic thoughts from me. But I did not know anything about those messages till December after the armistice, when Mr. Clarke went to France to find him—" she held more tightly to Barney's hand—"and bring him to me. Mr. Clarke found that he had got his discharge and sailed for America in response to a letter received from his friend, Huston Adley, in London. I sent for Huston and amazed to discover that your father—apparently—had established communication and had sent my son to Resurrection Rock and had mentioned that there would be some one named Bagley who was a man actually in Mr. Clarke's employ and used on private business.
