"Is this your son?"
"Yes, sir."
The judge addressed himself to Victor. "What do you know of your mother's power as a medium? Do you share her faith?"
Victor felt the burning eyes of the angry girl upon him as he replied: "I know very little about it, your honor. I have been away to school ever since I was ten years old."
"Mrs. Joyce, you are a believer in Mrs. Ollnee's powers?"
"I am, a firm believer."
"You've had no reason to doubt the genuineness of these messages?"
"Up to the present time I have not."
"You will lose heavily in this traction swindle, if it is a swindle, will you not?"
"If it has failed, yes, sir."