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  Matt, not sure of what answer he would get, but just had to ask, "How did your family ever get money like that."

  Amy, "It started with my great-grandfather, Henry Majors. He started the business in Memphis. In the shipping area. Back then the Mississippi had a lot of cargo going up and down it and he was there and got into it at just the right time. Today you would not be able to do that. So now the company is in the food production industry as the main source of income. Also, the company concentrates on investing in other companies And the investments made can really take off and get the large money everyone's running after. Most of them will get in after it's popular which is too late to make the real money. It's better to invest time to predict the future trends in companies before making investments."

  Wanda, heard to predict the future trends and entered the conversation, "People can see the future and make money from it. But I don't see people making any money predicting the future business trends and getting money that way. I have had a psychic business for seven years now and just because of the interest people have in the psychic area, I've managed to make a living. That's why I'm on the train. I have moved to Mapleville and had an increase in business."

  "You live in Mapleville now?" Amy replied, "I've been living there for forty two years now. That's where my daughter was born. She lives in Mapleville also. The psychic businesses only started about three years ago. At first many people were against it. But I figure new people in town with their own business would help the town. It really has helped. There are more stores and shops there now which helps everybody. And leads to staying the weekends. Which starts the tourist type of businesses, which we didn't have before. So I'm glad to see the new people."

  Wanda, "I'm not actually a new person. But from the towns point of view I can see how I am. What I'm concerned about is the group that, to me, rip of people and have no real interest in the psychic connection itself. For me there is a real connection. I guess that's why it bothers me to see these con-artists. Which is really what they are."

  Amy, "I can agree with that. I've seen a few con-artists myself over the years. Inside the family there are rumors of psychic abilities. I try to keep a history of the family. I have several times run into ancestors that supposedly had these psychic abilities. The same as I see people either have or think they have in Mapleville. I have found no proof that anyone in the family has had any real psychic abilities."

  Wanda, "Everybody has the abilities in them. They just don't come out for whatever reason."

  Amy, "I don't what to argue with you, But I don't think that's true. It seems to me somehow, now and then, someone could have the so called psychic ability, but that is just someone that randomly has them and there is no known reason why."

  Wanda, "You know I've had heard that may times from many people. But for me I still think it's a thing everyone has."

  Then Amy got a message. She pulls a computer out of her bag and replied to the message. Chatted a very short time, then said goodbye.

  Amy continued the conversation, "That's funny, I just got a message from my daughter, Connie, she's in Mapleville right now. Said she had a séance from one of the psychics there. But it didn't work out."

  Wanda was interested in this and though maybe it was a family thing and it was not her business, but she just had to ask, "Why, did she have a séance?"

  To her surprise Amy answered without hesitation, "She's concerned about her cousin Delores. Delores is one of those in the family that we wonder about. We both think that Delores thinks she has psychic powers. Delores is one of the black sheep in the family. In our history there are several. But Connie and Delores are of the same generation. Connie is sensible about being born into money. Delores is not. Connie think that Delores can somehow use her so called psychic powers to get more then her share of the family money. One of the psychic in Mapleville convinced Connie that she could have a séance and contact my great-grandfather and he would help her figure out what Delores is up to, Of course it never worked. She just had to tell me about it."

  Wanda, "Hum. Interesting. This is one of the things that has kept me interested in the psychic. I keep hearing stories just like this one. I really don't know what to think about them. But they keep my interest. Maybe it’s the reason I have been in the business for years and making my living from the business. It could be my own way of thinking so I could make a living. I just don't know.'

  Amy," I just don't know myself about all this stuff. If you'll excuse me I think I'll go to my room and rest a while."

  Wanda, "Of course. It's been nice to meet you."

  Amy left going to the rear of the train and her sleeping car.

  Wanda, Matt, and Kim started to the front of the train and their coach car. As they walked to their coach car, the conductor announced that it was 10 pm. And the lights were turned down.

  The Night

  As Wanda passed through the third coach car she walked by Delores. Wanda continued to the end of the car and stopped. Matt and Kim watched as a dazed look appeared on Wanda's face. Wanda stood for several seconds with the dazed look. And after a few steps stopped and came somewhat out of the dazed look.

  Kim were concerned and asked, "Are you ok?"

  Wanda after the look left, "Did you say something?"

  Kim replied , "I was wondering if you were ok."

  Wanda replied, "Of course. Why wouldn't I be ok?"

  Kim, "You were just standing there."

  Wanda, looking puzzled, Said as a question, "I was?"

  And then continued to their coach car.

  All sat saying nothing.

  Wanda sat a while and said nothing, then spoke to Matt and Kim, "There was a powerful energy in the car behind us. Very strong. Very deceitful. I never felt anything like that before."

  Matt and Kim didn't know what to say only expressed the look of bewilderment on their faces.

  Wanda continued, "There's something on this train. It's frightening. It's not frightening. I don't know what it is, but there something or somebody on this train."

  Wanda got up and walked towards the rear of the train. Matt and Kim followed behind her. Wanda reached the car door and reached her hand out to open their coach car rear door. Then she saw Delores get out of her seat and walk to the rear of her car. Wanda said nothing while she watched Delores open the rear door of her car and go into the next car.

  Wanda opened the door, entered the car and, walked to the rear of the car. Then she stopped and looked into the next car. She saw Delores and Donald going down the stairs.

  Wanda said to Matt and Kim, "She has the energy. It’s very powerful. Deceitful. But somehow it isn't. I just can't tell. It's frightening."

  Kim responded, "What are you talking about? What are you sayng?"

  Wanda, "Just believe me. Maybe. Should get off this train at next stop. No matter where it stops. I just don't know this feeling."

  All three began the return to their coach car. As they went through the lounge car they passed a young male and young female who were sleeping side by side in chairs in the dim light.

  Wanda walked ahead through the cars and reached her seat. Matt and Kim following behind, arrived and sat in their seats. No one spoke.

  Delores was in the restroom downstairs of the fourth coach car from the engine. She had several staple papers held up and showing Donald.

  Delores, "It's simple. I'll get these papers into her room and get the real ones out. Then she will sign these papers. Then I will control the family wealth and control the family. It will be good for these inferior people I've been stuck with since I was born."

  Donald said. "Talk quietly there may be someone in the restrooms."

  Delores replied, "There is no one in the restrooms."

  Donald said, "How do you know. You haven't looked."

  Delores repeated sternly, "There is no one in the restrooms."

  And looked directly at Donald. Then Donald shifted his eyes off of her

  She continued with
the plan saying, "After switching the papers. I will go into Amy's room as Connie and get her signature on the papers."

  She stopped talking and turned into Connie with Donald watching.

  Donald said, "I wish you wouldn't do that. It's too scary. Besides Amy knows Connie is not on the train no matter who you look like."

  Donald stopped talking and Delores looked at Donald. Donald showed extreme fright and asked, "Connie, What happen to Delores?"

  Delores replied, "You don't know I'm not Connie and neither will Amy."

  Donald muttered and said, "I really wish you wouldn't do these things. It's just gets too weird."

  Delores, "I know, ignorant humans don't understand the powers."

  Donald knew it was time for him to quit talking, so he did. Delores climbed back up the stairs and Donald followed along.

  In the second coach car, Wanda started talking to Kim, "The lady back there somehow connected with what's going on, on this train. I don't know what it is, but she's connected with it."

  Kim without speaking listened to Wanda. Matt across the aisle listened in also.

  Wanda, "This whole thing started when the napkin floated above the table this afternoon and then the cheese changed. Then Amy in the lounge car. Talking about her granddaughter and grandniece. And the psychic things within their family. All this is connected. That is why what is going on, on this train, is happening. Don't know how it all fits. But it explains the energy on this train."

  Kim sat for a while, not saying anything.

  Wanda, "I think I’ll talk with Amy again. To find out what is going on."

  Kim finally answered, "We have no idea where she is. What car she's in or what room she has."

  Wanda, "The conductors on the train know where she is. We could ask them.'

  Kim, "They're not going to tell you."

  Wanda, "Maybe we could have one of the conductors ask her to join us in the café car or lounge car. There's always someone in the café car. I'm going back to see if they would do that."

  Kim got up and let Wanda out of her seat. Wanda walked towards the café car. Kim and Matt followed along.

  They arrived in the café car. Wanda asked the café attended if he knew if the older lady that had a sleeping car had been around lately. He answered that that could be a lot of people, but he hasn't seen anybody like that.

  Then said, "Clyde is in charge of the sleeping cars. He would know where she was. He's always around the dining car or the sleeping cars. You can go back to the dining car to ask for him."

  Wanda and, Kim and Matt, went to the dining car. Waited a little since there was no one there when they arrived. Them a conductor came from the sleeping car and they found that he was Clyde. They explained to him that they would like Amy to join them. Clyde said he would go to her room tell her they would like to see her. He said they should wait there and he'll be back in a minute. The conductor left. They waited a few moments and Amy walked into the dining car.

  Wanda explained her concerns about the psychic energy on the train to Amy.

  After listening to Wanda, Amy said, "Why don't all of you come to my room. It’s a much quieter place to sit for a chat. They all went to Amy's car.

  Amy's sleeping car was the second one behind the dining car. Her room was the third one from the rear of the car.

  Wanda explained to Amy why she thought something suspicious was going on.

  Wanda told Amy the strangeness of the napkin floating and the cheese changing shape right after the train started. That this was her first feeling of the energy on the train.

  Amy spoke to Wanda saying, "I was eating here in the room right after we left Memphis. I saw a cheese stick change shape here on the table. It was kind of frightening, but I didn't think much about it. I have seen many things during my years. I don't put much stake in things like that anymore."

  After listening to Amy, Wanda is convinced that the lady, in the third car with the energy, caused the two cheese sticks to change shape and the napkin to levitate. Wanda is convinced this lady is Delores.

  Wanda asked Amy, "Is Delores on this train?"

  Amy, "No. Delores in in Memphis."

  Wanda asked, "Could she be on the train without you knowing it? Have you been around the train or have you been in and around the sleeping cars?"

  Amy thought and answered, "I've been around the sleeping car, the lounge, the dining car. That's about all."

  Wanda said, "There is a lady in the third coach car from the engine. She has psychic energy. I think she's Delores."

  Any, "I guess that's possible, but I don't know why she would be on this train."

  Wanda," I would like for you to walk with me to the car and see if it's Delores" You can stay in the car behind her and she shouldn't be able to see you."

  Amy, "If she's on this train I want to know about it."

  They both walked towards the front of the train. As they approach the dining car Amy looked through the car door window and saw Delores in the dining car.

  Amy said to Wanda, "That's Delores sitting right there. Lets go back to the room."

  They both returned to the sleeping car room.

  In the room, Amy explained more about the rumors of psychic abilities in their family," We're are from an old family and there have been rumor heard about these abilities in all the generations. Today Delores is the only one in the family has the rumor attached to her. Between Connie and me we cannot figure out why Delores has these rumors connected to her. We have seen nothing that shows Delores has psychic powers. But for some reason we have these feeling that there is something about her that is different."

  Wanda, "That's not unusual for someone, around a person who has the powers, to have these feelings. I would like to talk with Connie. Since she seems to be more connected with Delores. I think she could be helpful in figuring out what is going on."

  Amy, "You can chat with her on my computer. I'll get her and tell her what we're doing."

  Amy put her computer on the table and after a few clicks had Connie on. She explained to Connie what they were doing.

  Then she turned the computer to Wanda and said, "She said she would talk to you."

  Wanda sent the message, "Hello Connie. I'm Wanda. I'm here with Amy. I would like to hear just what happen at the séance you recently had."

  The message from Connie said, "We were in the back room. She did something. I don't know what it was. Then she turned down the lights. Then her look changed like she was staring into nothing. I thought for a second that there was someone else in the room. Then all at once she came out of the trance like state. Nothing else happen."

  Wanda sent the return message, "When you had the feeling of someone being there. There was someone there for that moment. The psychic was a fake and she did not know what was happening. So she came out of her faked state of being in contact with the other side. Who did you ask her to contact?"

  A message appeared on the screen," I asked her to contact Henry Majors my great-great-great-grandfather, the founder of the company."

  Wanda, "From what you are saying he was there, but because of the psychic, he stayed only for a moment."

  Wanda said to Amy, "What we need to do is have a séance to contact Henry Majors.'

  Amy, "I completely agree. Is there a place we should go to will it work in this room."

  Wanda, "If it works it will work in this room. We have to set up the right conditions. It needs to be dark but with some low light and we need some object that connects with the person on the other side."

  Amy, "I brought some candles with me in case there was an emergency. But I don't have anything that is connected to the other side."

  Wanda sat and thought a while and said, "Do you have the cheese?"

  Amy didn't know what she meant and asked, "The cheese?"

  Wanda, "The cheese you saw change shape this afternoon. It's somehow connected with the other side since some energy came from there which caused it to change."

  Amy thou
ght and then pulled out a curved round shaped piece of cheese from the food container on her bed, "Yes. This is it."

  They put the end table in the center of the room. Stood three candles on it and placed the cheese in the center. They turned off the lights.

  Wanda sat and said nothing. Then she looked into emptiness. Then she spoke, "Henry Majors."

  A fog of white appeared in the room. It took the shape of a person. It took the shape of a female person. The female wore a dress of the 1920s.

  Wanda came out of the trance like state. Amy looked at the spirit and asked, "Lizzy?

  The spirit of Henry Majors wife ,Lizzy, spoke, "Yes. I saw you only a few times in life. I have seen you many times from the afterlife."

  Amy, "Are you really here?"

  Lizzy said, "I am as close to really here as I can be. I was with Connie but only for a moment."

  Lizzy paused for a moment then continued, "I heard the voice of Connie calling. I went to Mapleville. But the medium was blocking the communication, as many do, when they only think they can communicate, but cannot. From Connie I saw her concern that Delores would use her powers to get the families wealth. So I went with you to Memphis and watched as Delores plan unfolded. She will switch papers. Then she will appear like Connie. And you are to unknowingly sign over the family wealth to her instead of Connie."

  Lizzy continued, "I was with you when you boarded the train."

  Lizzy turned and started talking to Wanda, "Then I saw you on the train and recognized your powers. To contact you I made the napkin float, above the table."

  Lizzy continued speaking as turning, "Then to contact both of you I made the cheese change at the same time."

  The plan was made between the three that they will allow Delores to switch the papers. Then she will be allowed to take that appearance of Connie and come to Amy's room. Where Wanda will cause Delores to hallucinate that Amy signs the papers.

  Wanda and Matt and Kim remained in the car until Wanda senses her psychic power increasing. Wanda and Matt and Kim saw the papers appeared as they came through the door and went to the table with real papers. The real papers lifted up, floated to the door, and disappeared through it. They opened the door and watched the real papers as they floated down the hallway towards the front of the car and turn out of sight. After telling Amy not to sign the papers, Wanda left the room. Matt and Kim followed her. They went to the rear of the sleeping car hallway and watched as Delores came around the corner. Then as she walked down the hallway she changed into Connie. Connie knocked on the door. Amy invited her in. Connie opened the door an entered the sleeping room.