CHAPTER VI.A ROUND-UP OF SPOOK-ARTISTS.
It began to look very much as if Horace Richmond’s theory was correct. Certainly the colonel had fallen again into the clutches of bogus mediums.
It might be that the whole plot was directed to that end, and that the transfer of the jewels to the Stevenses was only to be an incidental result of the plot.
Yet so long as Miss Stevens’ unusual conduct remained unexplained, it would not do to go upon this theory.
“One of the principal things that Horace Richmond employed me to do,” said Nick to himself, “was to break up his uncle’s belief in spiritualism. I guess that this is a first-class chance to do it.”
He softly crept to the corner where the gliding figures had disappeared.
There, as he expected, he found one of those movable panels which the
