'
'Eliphas Levi talked to me himself of this evocation,' said Dr Porhoet.
'He told me that its influence on him was very great. He was no longer
the same man, for it seemed to him that something from the world beyond
had passed into his soul.'
'I am astonished that you should never have tried such an interesting
experiment yourself,' said Arthur to Oliver Haddo.
'I have,' answered the other calmly. 'My father lost his power of speech
shortly before he died, and it was plain that he sought with all his
might to tell me something. A year after his death, I called up his
phantom from the grave so that I might learn what I took to be a dying
wish. The circumstances of the apparition are so similar to those I have
just told you that it would only bore you if I repeated them. The only
difference was that my father actually spoke.'
'What did he say?' asked Susie.
'He said solemnly: "_Buy Ashantis, they are bound to go up._"
'I did as he told me; but my father was always unlucky in speculation,
and they went down steadily.
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