Excerpt from Fear Not the Crossing Now usually one takes a friend's word as one takes an experience, as something incontrovertible. But however much de sire to be loyal strained towards belief, that seemed too much for the reason to accept unproved. Later on, then, while bridge was in progress, four of us went into the dining room, where the electric lights were sup planting the burnt-out candles, and, plac ing an ordinary wooden bedroom table on the bare floor, we sat down in chairs placed comfortably around it, our hands resting lightly upon its top. After a certain interval the table stirred, then very slowly tipped up and down. Soon, as it began to tip more rapidly, the professor said. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.