On his removing the magnetism before she had finished drinking, she found to her disgust that she had been drinking this lukewarm water.

The present-day Theosophist would probably have objected to such playfulness, but such things were continually happening in the early days.

When Colonel Olcott came into the Society he came straight from the investigation of spiritualistic phenomena--a thoroughly well-trained observer, beginning with a good deal of scepticism, and beaten out of it by his own observations in innumerable spiritualistic seances.

So that when he came in touch with H.P.B.he was no credulous, unobservant person, overborne by a number of wonderful happenings, but a thoroughly equipped and cold-blooded and well-trained observer of the super-physical, and he naturally brought his powers of observation to bear on these wonderful happenings.

He has left on record the full stories of these earlier days.