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"The poor child--"

"You may well say that," replied Britt "She has told reatest trial co rows eloquent in his description of what took place: 'Alin their uncanny and invisible riot, ending by seizing upon the child as if to destroy her, co her in the end to sleep Then her voice, her lience' You see, the oldabout taking the girl away"

"Do youthis delusion?"

"Mark his change of tone He goes on: 'The es in writing, believes that the spirits of her dead are trying to coht terrified yet hoping, waiting for further instructions froes rapidly "Listen to this Here is the key to the old an to speak to me in the voice of a man Hoarse words rose from deep in her throat, a voice and words impossible to her in her normal condition The voice purported to be ular I do not understand how she could know the things this voice uttered to me' You see," said Britt, "he has ceased to be the es slowly "Well, the girl passed rapidly through these various phases, according to Randall She wrote randfather McLeod detailed the one that he acquiesced From her eleventh to her fifteenth year she lived under this 'control' The manifestations increased in power and definiteness The 'controls' at last were three--her grandfather, her brother, and her own father At sixteen the irl went away to school At this point Joe Lambert enters--he s?"

"He seems to have been a silent and reluctant witness; the doctor only mentions him incidentally There are one or two pitiful letters fro several e returns of the 'spirits,' but, on the whole, she was happy According to the record, her vacations eist, seeht, o nowhere, and it ith the greatest difficulty that the mother kept her dreadful secret"