she might say in the way of exposure. May be she's
out of money and thinks the spiritualists ought to do something for
her. I shouldn't wonder."

"Now, if you'll come up here some time, and if you'll give me a fair
report, I shall be glad to show you how I can materialize."

I thought there was a good deal of material about her already, and so
I thanked her.

At their public gatherings in Adelphi Hall, New York, now most meagerly
attended, the spiritualists, just after the initial expose in the
_Herald_, refrained very wisely from taking up the gauntlet of truth
thrown down by their chief apostle, Mrs. Margaret Fox Kane. In an
interview, however, which was had by a reporter with Mr. Henry J. Newton,
the President of the First Spiritual Society of New York, the latter
indulged in a number of emphatic statements regarding the "manifestations"
produced by the "Fox Sisters," all of which rested upon his own veracity
only. The spirit of what he said may be easily gleaned from this passage:

"I had supposed all along," he said, "that Mrs. Kane was still in
Europe, and that she would never return to this country. I even heard
at the time when Katie, her sister, was sent abroad, that Maggie was
in Rome, in company with a well known gentleman. I am very much
surprised to know that she is in this city, and more surprised that
she threatens to make such silly pretended revelations as you say she
proposes. They can only be revelations in name. She cannot reveal
anything that can injure the spiritualist cause or that will weaken
in any one's mind the truth of what we teach.

"I have been absent in the country and have not read all that the
_Herald_ has published on this matter. I have read enough, however,
to show me how utterly absurd and ridiculous her position is.

"The idea of claiming that unseen 'rappings' can be produced with
joints of the feet! If she says this, even with regard to her own
manifestations, she lies! I and many other men of truth and position
have witnessed the manifestations of herself and her sisters many
times under circumstances in which it was absolutely impossible for
there to have been the least fraud.

"_Nothing that she could say in that regard would in the least change
my opinion_, nor would it that of any one else who has become
profoundly convinced that there