Poor man, she thought, stopping by the bed. His face was drawn and pale. She wondered when he’d gotten to sleep. Benjamin Franklin Fischer: the greatest American physical medium of the century, His sittings in Professor Galbreath’s house at Marks College had been the most incredible display of power since the heyday of Home and Palladino. She shook her head with pity. Now he was emotionally crippled, a latter-day Samson, self-shorn of might.
