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parties, his letters sent and received). All this would 

 be exceedingly futile, and for obvious reasons. 



The medium knows Sir Arthur by name and he prob- 

 ably knows me by sight as well as by name. Even 

 when sitting anonymously I must always assign heavy 

 weight to the possibility that I am recognised. Know- 

 ing us both, the facts common to us are largely public 

 property through Sir Arthur's and my writings and 

 through newspaper reports. In so far as they are not 

 thus published they are at least publicly ascertainable 

 by due inquiry. And I suppose every fake medium 

 in the world would know my face, know whether he 

 would exclude It if it ever appeared or whether he 

 would admit it, and would admit It only if prepared 

 to deal with It. 



But suppose I arrange a sitting for you, Incognito, 

 and your grandfather purports to communicate. Both 

 he and you are unknown to general fame; and there 

 Is every presumption that you yourself are quite un- 

 known to the medium and your presence in his seance 

 therefore quite unanticipatable. The facts common to 

 you and your grandfather, if ascertainable at all by 

 the medium, would be available only as the result of a 

 long research. 



Suppose, in the face of all this, your sol-disant 

 grandfather, speaking through the medium's mouth, 

 reminds you that he used to call you Nibs, and that 

 your name for him was Gee-Pops. He names half a 

 dozen of the family pets and gives details about them 

 and Indicates the order of their acquisition and loss. 

 He reminisces about your summers together at the 

 lodge and he gets nothing wrong. He mentions the 

 Green Chicken and all the other sitters think he is at 



