It would be out of place for me to indicate the particular
address or the particular methods employed by the agency
to which my Friend introduced me. I am anxious to avoid
anything approaching a commercial tinge in what I write.
Moreover, their advertisement can be seen along with many
others--all, I am sure, just as honourable and just as
trustworthy--in the columns of any daily newspaper. As
everybody knows, many methods are employed. The tapping
of a table, the movement of a ouija board, or the voice
of a trance medium, are only a few among the many devices
by which the spirits now enter into communication with
us. But in my own case the method used was not only
simplicity itself, but was so framed as to carry with it
the proof of its own genuineness. One had merely to speak
into the receiver of a telephone, and the voice of the
spirit was heard through the transmitter as in an ordinary
telephone conversation.
It was only natural, after the scoffing remark that I
had made, that I should begin with my great-grandfather.
Nor can I ever forget the peculiar thrill that went
through me when I was informed by the head of the agency
that a tracer was being sent out for Great-grandfather
to call him to the phone.
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