“What is his specialty?” one member inquired.
“I hardly think it would be fair for me to tell. It would possibly be too good a clue to his identity.”
“Is it fair to ask if it is connected with any psychical branch?”
“Not in the least. I think I said at the start that I never suspected him of any interest in such subjects. He was asked to join this Club, and declined.”
“Did he give any particular reason?”
The President smiled satirically.
“He said it would never accomplish anything.”
“Perhaps that shows his common sense,” Judge Hobart observed dryly. “I am bound to say that it has not accomplished much thus far. What I do not understand is why at this late day he takes an interest in our work.”
“He did n’t go into that. He did not seem especially anxious. He merely told me that he was willing to show the Club certain things, and named his conditions. That is about the whole of it.”