ather Abraham, but if one went unto them from the
dead they would repent.'_

"_And he said unto him: 'If they hear not Moses and the prophets,
neither will they be persuaded through one rise from the dead.'_"

No, the whole idea is preposterous. It is far outside of God's justice
and infinitely farther beyond His boundless mercy.

"He giveth His Beloved _sleep_";--not weary, hopeless wanderings upon
the face of the earth.

Peter Grimm did not return. And this is the only comment I care to make
upon Andrew McPherson's amazing theory.

CHAPTER XVIII

DR. McPHERSON'S STATEMENT

DR. JAMES HYSLOP.

_My Dear Sir:_--After reading the account which I am mailing to you
under separate cover, will you kindly forward it to the American Branch
of the Society of Psychical Research? As you will observe, it is a
verbatim report of a "seance."

For your personal information, I beg to make the following supplementary
statement.

At the residence of Peter Grimm,--I should say the _late_ Peter
Grimm--(the well-known horticulturist of Grimm Manor, N. Y.) certain
phenomena occurred this evening which would clearly indicate the Return
of Peter Grimm, ten days after his decease. At my first free moment
after the manifestation, I jotted down in shorthand the exact dialogue,
etc., which I have since transcribed into the enclosed report.

While Peter Grimm was invisible to all, three people were present
besides myself; including the "recipient," a child of eight, who had
been ill, but was almost normal at the time.

No spelling out of signals nor automatic writing was employed, but word
of mouth.

I made a compact with Peter Grimm while he was in the flesh that
whichever one of us should go first was to return and give the other
some sign. And I propose, by the enclosed report, to show positive proof
that Peter Grimm kept his compact and that I assisted in the carrying
out of his instructions.

Let me introduce myself and briefly recount the circumstances which led
up to the seance, as well as my own state of mind concerning
manifestations:

I am a practising physician in the town of Grimm Manor, a suburb of New
York City, settled at the time of the Dutch occupation of Manhattan, and
named after the family, the Grimms, which first owned the farm that is
now the town site.

I have always been greatly interested in Spiritualism. I have read
nearly all that has been written on this subject and have known,
personally, m