It was while these things were occupying part of my attention that I chanced to ask Hewitt whether, in the course of his divers odd and out- of-the-way experiences, he had met with any such weird adventures as were detailed in such profusionin the books of " authenticated" spooks, doppel- gangers, poltergeists, clairvoyance, and so forth. " Well," Hewitt answered, with reflection, " I haven't been such a wallower in the uncanny as some of the worthy...