Mr. Payson frowned at this frivolity. "There are things they've told me
that no one living could possibly know. Whether it's done through
spirits or not, it's mysterious business. You ought to go to a seance
and see what they can do."
"I'd hate to have them tell my past," Cayley said jocosely, "but I don't
take much stock in them. They're a gang of fakirs."
"They're pretty sharp, if they are. I haven't lived fifty years in the
West to be taken in as easily as that. I ought to know something about
men by this time. Why, see here! You know what trouble I had with my
leg? It was something pretty serious. Well, look at me now. You've
noticed the change yourself. I went to a medium and now I'm completely
cured. That's enough to give any one confidence, isn't it? It's genuine
evidence."