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"I tried to, but Mrs Lairl was in need of my care They invited me to join the circle as a spectator, which I did I am still the onlooker--merely"

"You don'twith her?"

"You hts each week Clarke is preparing to renounce his pulpit and startle the world by a book on 'spiritisirl is his source of thunder"

Serviss sank back into his chair and darkly pondered "That explains a nuirl's part What is her attitude? She seemed to me extremely discontented and unhappy"

"She is unhappy She understands her situation and has mohtful share in the world of young people, and feels accursed"

"I can understand that, and several things she said toBut tell s--what takes place--what does the girl profess to do?"

"I don't know I can't determine Clarke's share in the hocus-pocus It all takes place in the dark"

"It always does It belongs there"

"Many of the good old 'stunts' of the professional uitars are played, chairs nose about your knees, hands are laid on your cheek, and so on"

"You don't think she is wilfully tricking?" Serviss asked this with manifest anxiety

"There's every inducee if she did 'help on' now and then"

"What a deplorable thing!"

"And yet I'h I have detected her in fraud Probably the whole thing began in some childish disorder which threw her system out of balance There are hundreds of such cases in medical literature She was 'possessed,' as of old, with a sort of devilish 'secondary personality' She probably wrote treatises left-handed and upside-down They often begin that way The hter's occult powers She nursed the delusion, fors happened, e the Mediuirl didn't intend to deceive anybody at first, but she was tolled along from one fakery to another, till at last she found herself powerless in the grasp of her self-induced coma She is anxious to escape her slavery; she revolts, and is most unhappy, but sees no way out That'sof the case Nohat is your advice? What can I do? I airl, but I have no authority to act"