“The ‘Medium’ (repeating). Will you rap on the floor?
“Thirty seconds now elapse without any demonstration.
“The ‘Medium’ (aside). It seems to be a failure. They have done it.
“Another click of the glasses which passes without comment.
“Mr. Sellers. We will have to set down the result of the experiment on glass tumblers as negative. It may be well to try it later.
“The ‘Medium’ (evidently reluctant to abandon the test). Suppose now, as we have gone so far, we kind of form a chain.
“The company retained their positions with hands joined, and the ‘Spirits’ were repeatedly requested to make their presence known. Mr. Pepper, at the suggestion of the ‘medium,’ asking the ‘Spirit’ of his friend, Henry Seybert, to manifest its presence by one rap—but all efforts to elicit such response proved ineffectual.
“When the same experiments were resumed, the lady proceeded to the space between the side-board and the wall, where the last preceding test had been made, and there the tumblers were again arranged. The ‘medium’ resumed her position upon them, with Drs. Leidy and Koeing, and Messrs. Sellers and Furness facing her.
“The ‘Medium.’ Will the Spirit rap here?
“Twenty-three seconds elapse.