This I can tell you.

I suspect that there is some other being, or person, in that queer old house of hers whom she consults on grave occasions.

At a loss for an answer to a difficult scientific question, I have known her to leave the room and to come back in the course of a few minutes with a reply which I am positive she could never have framed herself." "She may have consulted books," suggested the Wanderer.
"I am an old man," said Keyork Arabian suddenly.

"I am a very old man; there are not many books which I have not seen and partially read at one time or at another, and my memory is surprisingly good.

I have excellent reasons for believing that her information is not got from anything that was ever written or printed." "May I ask of what general nature your questions were ?" inquired the other, more interested than he had hitherto been in the conversation.
"They referred to the principles of embalmment." "Much has been written about that since the days of the Egyptians." "The Egyptians!" exclaimed Keyork with great scorn.