Thus it is not wholly beyond the scope of fancy to imagine that some day official science may glance at the evidence for "telepathy".
But the stories we have been telling deal with living men supposed to be influencing living men.

When the dead are alleged to exercise a similar power, we have to suppose that some consciousness survives the grave, and manifests itself by causing hallucinations among the living.

Instances of this have already been given in "The Ghost and the Portrait," "The Bright Scar" and "Riding Home after Mess".

These were adduced as examples of _veracity_ in hallucinations.

Each appearance gave information to the seer which he did not previously possess.