Excerpt from The New Border Tales

At a late hour of the night, two friends sat together over a dying fire.

"I have given you my experience of the supernatural," said the first; "now, let me have yours."

The other shook his head.

"I have none to give." And, after a pause, he continued, "You forget, S., that I am the child of a scientific age. For me, belief has one basis, and one alone - the evidence of the senses. I believe in what I can see, touch, hear; and anything else in which I am to believe must be deduced from this by a process of reasoning which I can test or check. Now, I have never seen a ghost; ergo I don't believe in ghosts."

"And you discredit the evidence of those who say they have?"

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