You never were in the newspaper business?
Well, sir, you missed it.

Greatest business in the world.

You know everything that is going on long before anybody else does, and the way you can reward your friends and jump with both feet on your enemies is one of the delights of existence down there." "Well, what I wanted to ask you was this," said Brenton.

"You have made a speciality of finding out whether there could be any communication between one of us, for instance, and one who is an inhabitant of the other world.

Is such communication possible ?" "I have certainly devoted some time to it, but I can't say that my success has been flattering.