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The Heart Line: A Drama of San Francisco

Gelett Burgess

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Madam Spoll at the organ and her husband with his violin, had, meanwhile, been playing a dreary piece of music, "to induce the proper conditions," as she had announced from the platform. They stopped, retarding a minor chord, and the medium went to the table and began to handle the tests, rearranging them, putting some aside, bringing others forward, in an abstracted manner. Then, looking up with a self-satisfied smile, she spoke:

"I want to say something to the new-comers and skeptics here to-night in explanation of these tests. Them who have thoroughly investigated the subject and are familiar with every phase of mediumship, understand, of course, that these objects are placed here merely to attract magnetism to the sitter and induce the proper conditions, so that your spirit friends will be able to communicate with you. This phase of mediumship is called psychometry, but if I'd stop to explain just what that means, I wouldn't have time to g. . . Read More

Community Reviews

A thoroughly mediocre novel set in the fraudulent spiritualism scene of pre-1906 San Francisco. Protagonist is Frank Granthope, a palmist who is drifting from fortunetelling into amateur counseling as his social stock increases, a process that accelerates when he meets the inevitable young society w