"_Seventh._--When they need a subject for the exhibition of magnetic or somnambulistic phenomena, they take any of your servants whom you may designate, no matter whom, and they act with the same facility upon a European in case he is willing to serve. "_Eighth._--If they need any article, such as a musical instrument, a cane, a piece of paper, a pencil, etc., they ask you to furnish it. "_Ninth._--They will repeat any experiments in your presence as many times as you require, and will submit to any test you may apply. "_Tenth._--They never ask any pay, merely accepting, as alms for the temple to which they are attached, whatever you choose to offer them. "I have travelled through India in every direction for many years, and I can truthfully state that I have never seen a single Fakir who was not willing to comply with any of these conditions. "It only remains for us to ask whether our more popular magicians would ever consent to dispense with any of their numerous accompaniments, and perform under the same conditions. There is no doubt what the answer would be." Whether the forms or articles exhibited are considered as objects invisibly brought into the room, or created from the atmosphere, they are alike astonishing manifestations of an occult power. It does not simplify or explain these singular phenomena to deny their relation to beings of another life, and refer them to a supposed power in man, the laws of which are unknown to us. We have to deal with them as we would with any of the natural manifestations of life. To assume that these things are not honest,--that these beings, who come to us claiming to be our friends and relatives, are deceiving us, playing on our credulity,--is to decide the question without evidence. CHAPTER IV. MATERIALIZATION AND DEMATERIALIZATION UNDER TEST CONDITIONS. At Mrs. Fay's, on Thursday, Oct. 6, 1885, previous to the seance, Mrs. Fay came into the room under the control of "Auntie," and requested that four ladies should be selected by the audience to go with the medium to her dressing-room. The request was complied with, and the ladies returned with Mrs. Fay, still under control, and stated that they had dressed her entirely in dark clothes; that there was not one particle of white fabric about her, except the little collar around her neck. The control then asked me to take a light into the cabinet, and all were requested to examine it and see that there was no possible chance for a confederate, or the concealment of drapery. This was done to the entire satisfaction of all present. Mrs. Fay was not allowed to leave the room, but, as soon as the audience was seated, went directly into the cabinet. She had not time to take her seat before a form, dressed in white, came out into the room. This was followed by several others similarly dressed.