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{{Style P-No indent|and finally, ''mirabile dictu, ''the same instrument to be played upon. At the subsequent ''seance ''held at the Babu’s house, no sceptic could possibly have doubted that the things he saw and heard could have been effected by other than material agency. An organ was played upon by invisible hands; and, though Mr. Eglinton, to prevent any suspicion of his being a ventriloquist, kept some water in his mouth, which he afterwards spat out in the light, the sitters distinctly heerd articulate words spoken connectedly and sensibly by invisible voices,* which, he said, belonged to his spirit-guides. To the suprise of the whole party, whose character for respectability and intelligence is absolutely unquestionable, the materialised form of a native lady then appeared; and this lady, whose face was partially visible, a gentleman, who was a sitter, solemnly assured the party that he distinctly recognised as his mother, But these things were done in darkness. Still, it is impossible to doubt that they were done in absolute good faith, and without the least help from accomplices. The crowning feat, however, remains to be told. Mr. Eglinton, in the dear lamp-light, tore off an end of a black card, giving the rent piece to one gentleman to keep securely under his thumb, while he passed the card with the point of a black lead pencil, which he broke off with his teeth, to another gentleman, whom he desired to place the card and the bit of pencil within a book on which he was resting his hands. The sound of writing was distinctly heard by every sitter from within the book. But some disturbance in the conditions necessary in these ''stances, ''quite unsettled Mr. Eglinton. Rather than lay himself open to the imputation of practising fraud, he chucked a card together with a pencil towards a' window within the room. Shortly afterwards he asked the gentleman, who had placed the first mutilated card into the book under his hands, to take it out, when, to the surprise of all, it contained part of a letter, written at the dictation of the departed spirit of a distinguished relative of a most distinguished member of the ''seance—''the continuation 'of this letter being found in the card thrown near the window. A copy of this letter we subjoin:—}}