The game has reached a point where you cannot have too many brains
on your side. Time is short for reinforcements!"
He heartily approved of my course in enlisting the aid of Miss
Clarke and her colleagues. "That is the sort of thing you need!
People with mentality; plenty of intellectual force!" And he went
on to make suggestions.
As a result, within an hour and a half our house was sheltering
five more persons.
Miss Clarke has already been introduced. She was easily one of the
ten most advanced practitioners in her line. And she had the
advantage of a curiosity that was interested in everything odd,
even though she labelled it "non-existent." She said it helped her
faith in the real truths to be conversant with the unreal.
Dr. Malloy was from the university, an out-and-out materialist, a
psychologist who made life interesting for those who agreed with
William James. His investigations of abnormal psychology are
world-acknowledged.
Mme. Le Fabre, we afterwards learned, had come from Versailles
especially to investigate the matter that was bothering us. She
possessed no mediumistic properties of her own but was a staunch
proponent of spiritualism, believing firmly in immortality and the
omnipotence of "translated" souls.
Professor Herold is most widely known as the inventor of certain
apparatus connected with wireless. But he is also considered the
West's most advanced student of electrical and radio-active
subjects.
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