The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen

Excerpt: ...who has lived as you are living, and who has died as you will die. We heard the creak and grate of a cab pulling up next door. There was an argument about the fare, and the cabman grumbled hoarsely down the street. The green-yellow cloud still swirled faintly over the table, dull elsewhere, but glowing into a dim luminosity in the direction of the medium. It seemed to be piling itself up in front of her. A sense of fear and cold struck into my heart. It seemed to me that lightly and flippantly we had approached the most real and august of sacraments, that communion with the dead of which the fathers of the Church had spoken. Pg 130 Don't you think we are going too far? Should we not break up this seance? I cried. But the others were all earnest to see the end of it. They laughed at my scruples. All the powers are made for use, said Harvey Deacon. If we can do this, we should do this. Every new departure of knowledge has been called unlawful in its inception. It is right and proper that we should inquire into the nature of death. It is right and proper, said the voice. There, what more could you ask? cried Moir, who was much excited. Let us have a test. Will you give us a test that you are really there? What test do you demand? Well, now