"What did Alexander's family think of the music?"
"They thought it more like a Cheyenne or Omaha love-song than like a melody of 'Ernest's' own composition."
"But that only adds to the mystery of the mental process," objected Miller. "That supposes it to have come out of your mind."
"I can't believe that I had any hand in the musical part of it, and I can't persuade myself that my dead friend was present."
"Suppose you had been able to find that musical fragment, would it have converted you?" This was Miller's challenge.
"No, for even then some living person might have known of it—must have known of it; and if a knowledge of it lay in some other mind, no matter where and no matter how deeply buried in the subconscious, that knowledge, according to Myers and Hudson, would have been accessible to the supernormal perception of the psychic."
Fowler interrogated me: "But suppose a phantom form resembling 'E. A.' had spoken these things to you face to face—what then?"
"I would not have believed, even then."
"Why?"