"Mrs. Jencken, are you willing to join with your sister in exposing the true modus operandi of Spiritualism?" I asked. "I care nothing for Spiritualism," was her reply. "So far as I am concerned I am done with it. I will say this, I regard it as one of the very greatest curses that the world has ever known. If I knew those powerful spiritualists who have done their utmost to harm me in the past could not do so in the future, I would not hesitate a moment to expose it. The worst of them all is my eldest sister, Leah, the wife of Daniel Underhill. I think she was the one who caused my arrest last spring, and the bringing of the preposterous charge against me that I was cruel to my children and neglectful of them. I don't know why it is, she has always been jealous of Maggie and me; I suppose because we could do things in Spiritualism that she couldn't." "Why don't you come squarely out, then, with the truth, and make the public your friends? You needn't fear any persecution if you do that." "Well, if my sister's health were only fully restored and I knew she was fully herself I would certainly join her in showing Spiritualism to be what it really is. I want to be sure of that, however. I want the thing done properly when it is done." "Then you will not deny that what she has said of Spiritualism is true?" "I will not deny it. Spiritualism is a humbug from beginning to end. It is the greatest humbug of the century. I don't know whether she has told you this, but Maggie and I started it as very little children, too young, too innocent, to know what we were doing. Our sister Leah was twenty-three years older than either of us. We got started in the way of deception, and being encouraged in it, we went on, of course. Others, old enough to have been ashamed of the infamy, took us out into the world. My sister Leah has published a book called 'The Missing Link of Spiritualism.' It professes to give the true history of this movement, so far as it originated with us. Now, there's nothing but falsehood in that book from beginning to end, excepting the fact that Horace Greeley educated me. The rest is nothing but a string of lies." "And about the manifestations at Hydesville in 1848 and the finding of bones in the cellar and so on?" "All humbuggery, every bit of it." "And yet Maggie and I are the founders of Spiritualism!" concluded Mrs. Jencken. On the next day Mrs. Jencken made the statement which appears in the following: