A liberal reward will be paid to any wizard, recognized or unrecognized, who will, before February I, 1898, send to me a detailed statement of a
GUARANTEED METHOD
of getting rid of
SPOOKS.
It is agreed that these communications shall be regarded as strictly confidential until such a time as through their medium the spirit is effectually
LAID,
after which time the cure will be exploited
FREE OF CHARGE
in the best advertising mediums of the day.
To this I appended an assumed name and a temporary address, and was about to send it out, when my friend Wilkins, a millionaire student of electricity, living in Florida, invited me to spend my Christmas holidays with him on Lake Worth.