Crossword-Solution: ROLFE 5 letters, 61 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Master Rolfe was a widower and an ardent desirer of “the conversion of the pagan salvages.” He became interested in the young Indian widow, and though he protests that he married her for the purpose of converting her to Christianity, and rather ungallantly calls her “an unbelieving creature,” it is just possible that if she had not been a pretty and altogether captivating young unbeliever he would have found less personal means for her conversion.

Rolfe, heard an account of the happenings from his host, and after announcing his conviction that the latter had "bats in his belfry" proceeded to the dugout, where his experiences were so instant and so violent that he rushed out of the place in horror.

Rolfe is, unknown to himself, a physical medium, and that when he was in the confined space of the cellar he turned it into a cabinet in which his magnetic powers could accumulate and be available for use.

Rolfe, who had been in it all morning, was not yet exhausted and he was able to get some manifestations.

With an impatient sigh, I swept the litter from the table, and, taking from the shelf that held my meagre library a bundle of Master Shakespeare's plays (gathered for me by Rolfe when he was last in London), I began to read; but my thoughts wandered, and the tale seemed dull and oft told.