"You see, the boys saying they couldn't remember what Mrs.Williams wanted them to tell Margaret, and that probably she hadn't told them anything to tell her, because most likely they'd misunderstood something she said--well, of course, all that does sound mixed-up and peculiar; but they sound that way about half the time, anyhow.

No; it couldn't possibly have had a thing to do with it.

They were right there at the table with us all the time, and they came straight to the table the minute they entered the house.

Before that, they'd been over at Sam's all afternoon.

So, it COULDN'T have been the boys." Mrs.Schofield paused to ruminate with a little air of pride; then added: "Margaret has often thought--oh, long before this!--that she was a medium.