It was you, Paul, yourself, who suggested it, when you said that night after the first seance, that if a medium died in a trance, you believed the materialized spirit could not dematerialize but would return to earth.

But for that the idea would never have occurred to them.
"It seemed a daring plot, but many things favoured it.

I had lived in Hilton up to within a few years, and knew every stick and stone of the old as well as the new part of the village.

I had wandered all over the old Ludington homestead time and again.

Mother knew as much about Miss Ludington's early life as she did herself, and could post me on the subject, and there was my wonderful resemblance to the picture, which, of itself, would be almost enough to carry me through.
"It was for my sake entirely that they proposed this scheme.