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[Wittnebel <hum...@al...>]

Ought," he answered, "and I have felt an earnest drawing toward my
daughter's child. I have seen him thrice, but have not had the heart to
speak to him and declare myself the progenitor of that mother whose
memory I know he cherishes." "You shall make yourself known to him," I
said. "I will prepare the way." He shook me again by the hand and took
his leave without a word. He was deeply affected. I reseated myself by
my table, one thought after another rushing through my mind. Had ever
man heard a story such as this! What were all the experiences of the
members of the Society for Psychical Research, their stories of
apparitions, their instances of occult influences, their best
authenticated incidents of supernaturalism compared to this experience
of mine! Should I hasten and tell it all to my wife? I hesitated. If
what I had heard should not be true--and this, my first doubt or
suspicion impressed upon me how impossible to me had been doubt or
suspicion during the presence of my visitor--it would be wrong to
uselessly excite her mind. On the other hand, if I had heard nothing but
the truth, what would happen should she sympathize as deeply with Amos
Kilbright as I did, and then should that worthy man suddenly become
dematerialized, perhaps before her very eyes?