. . . . . . . .
At the house, the medium opened the door with her key and ushered
in her three visitors.
Long Sin who had been watching for their arrival from the window
now hastily withdrew from the seance room and disappeared behind
the black curtains.
Entering the room the medium at once prepared for the seance by
pulling down the window shades. Then she seated herself in a chair
beside the cabinet, and appeared to fall off slowly into a trance.
Her strange proceedings were watched with the greatest curiosity
by Elaine as well as Aunt Josephine and Bennett, who had taken
seats placed at one side of the room.
The room itself was dimly lighted, and the curtains of the cabinet
seemed, in the obscurity, to sway back and forth as if stirred by
some ghostly breeze.
All of them were now quite on edge with excitement.
Suddenly an indistinct face was seen to be peering through the
black curtains, as it were.
The guitar, as if lifted by an invisible hand, left the cabinet,
floated about close to the ceiling, and returned again. It was
eerie.
At last a voice, deep, sepulchral, was heard in slow and solemn
tones.
"I am Eeko--the spirit of Taylor Dodge. I will give no message
until one named Josephine leaves the room."
No sooner had the words been uttered than the medium came writhing
out of her trance.
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