"I think not," he said.
"You found no ill effects, I hope, from what happened at Lady
Laura's?"
"Not at all, after the first shock."
"Doesn't that reassure you at all, Mr. Baxter?"
Laurie hesitated.
"It's like this," he said; "I'm not really convinced. I don't see
anything final in what happened."
"Will you explain, please?"
Laurie set the results of his meditations forth at length. There was
nothing, he said, that could not be accounted for by a very abnormal
state of subjectivity. The fact that this ... this young person's name
was in his mind ... and so forth....
"... And I find it rather distracting to my work," he ended. "Please
don't think me rude or ungrateful, Mr. Vincent."
He thought he was being very strong and sensible.
The medium was silent for a moment.
"Doesn't it strike you as odd that I myself was able to get no results
that night?" he said presently.
"How? I don't understand."
"Why, as a rule, I find no difficulty at all in getting some sort of
response by automatic handwriting. Are you aware that I could do
nothing at all that night?"
Laurie considered it.
"Well," he said at last, "this may sound very foolish to you; but
granting that I have got unusual gifts that way--they are your own
words, Mr.
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