SUMMERRLODGE.
We asked, after the second R, if there was not some mistake; and again when O came, instead of the A we had expected for 'Summerland.'
But he said No.
So we went on, though I thought it was hopelessly wrong, and ceased to follow. I felt sure it was mere muddle.
So my surprise was the greater when the note-taker read out, 'Summer R. Lodge,' and I found he had signed his name to it, to show, I suppose, that it was his own statement, and not Feda's.
[Lorna reports that the impression made upon them was that Raymond knew they had been expecting one ending, and that he was amused at having succeeded in giving them another. They enjoyed the joke together, and the table shook as if laughing.]
We talked to him a little after this, and Alec and Noël put their hands on the table, and we said good night.
It is only necessary to add that the mechanical movements here described are not among those which, on page 218, I referred to as physically unable to be done by muscular effort on the part of anyone whose hands are only on the table top. I am not in this book describing any cases of that sort. Whatever was the cause of the above mechanical trick movements, which were repeated on a subsequent occasion for my observation, the circumstances were not strictly evidential. I ought to say, however, that most certainly I am sure that no conscious effort was employed by anyone present.
MARIEMONT
RAYMOND AND BRODIE WITH THE PIGEONS AT MARIEMONT