“Well,” began Marie Louise, “after Marj talked at lunch time about spending another night at the tea-house in spite of that warning which she and Ethel received, I began to be worried. I thought we ought to know whether there was anything to it—if the spirits really were opposed to our using the house. So I decided to find out.”
“To find out!” repeated Marjorie in surprise. “But how did you experiment?”
“No, not experiment!” corrected Marie Louise. “We went straight to the proper source for information. Alice and I consulted a medium!”
“So that is what you were doing in town!” remarked Mrs. Munsen. Then, her mind suddenly switching from the mental to the physical. “And haven’t you had any supper?”
“We had ice-cream while we were waiting for the taxi,” replied Alice.
“You poor dears!” cried the older woman, rising. “I’ll hear the rest later, and go fix your something to eat.”
As soon as she was gone, Marie Louise went on with her story.
“I had the name of a medium a friend of mine went to see in the city,” she said; “so as soon as I knew we would be off at four o’clock, I persuaded Alice to go with me.”
“I really was crazy to go,” put in her companion.
“Naturally!” remarked Florence.