neighborhood wasn't one where you'd look for cheap frauds."
"No. What happened?"
"Several affairs which startled other people."
"But yourself?"
"Well, I got a few surprises, too."
"Of what sort?"
"Facts about myself instead of foolishness. Somebody connected with that affair—I'm not saying that the information came from spirits—but somebody in that room seemed to know just about everything concerning me. And I found out that my father was living but my mother was dead."
"How did you find that out?"
"At the sitting."
"But you said that at other sittings you'd been told such things before," Ethel objected. "And you thought it was rot."
"Because the other things told me at the same time about matters which I knew were foolish. But this time—well, I admit several shocks. The medium told me little details about myself for years back, especially about my life over here. She knew about my ring and Azen Mabo and Noah Jo; about my friends in Boyne high school—people I'd never mentioned to any one."
"How did she know?"
"That's what gave me a jump. Of course, she might have learned those things, if she'd taken the trouble, or if Hus had sent a staff of detectives over here. Everything could have been learned naturally."
"Then why didn't you think it was?"
"I haven't said it was learned unnaturally; but it was such a mixed lot of facts, Miss Carew. It
