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"You shock and disgust irl seems too fine for such chicanery Who is this man Clarke?"

"He was a sensational preacher in Brooklyn a few years ago, but a hee in the pulpit cut short his career in the East He caot better, but his wife, who had a weak heart, couldn't stand the altitude She died--a sacrifice to her husband He's the kind of a man who demands sacrifice After his wife's death, he fairly lived at the Lairl's will is so weakened that she is but a puppet in the grasp of his powerful personality"

Serviss was now absorbed in reconstructing his conception of Viola Her situation appealed to hinancy, but his ability to help her seeone Fair as she looked, she was to be avoided, as one tainted with leprosy His iuered, if not lost

Britt was saying: "If the girl were under age I'd appeal to the health authorities of the state--I really would, e, and, what is more to the point, Clarke has won her love and confidence, and what can you do? He fills her horizon, and the hter's 'irl herself half convinced that her cataleptic states are of divine origin I confess I haven't felt free to make any real tests--you can't treat her like a professional, you know--but she seeenuine coma, and until some clamp is applied I can't say whether she or Clarke is the chief offender Noould you do?"

Serviss burned with the heat of his anger "Don't reveal to me any more of this wretched business I can't advise If you, her physician, and Lambert, her step-father, can't put a stop to it, what can I, a passing stranger, do? I don't want to know anything more about it Why, irl like that! To think of that bewitching creature as a coood people, millions of them, believe in such mummery! It is incredible!"

"You'd be surprised at the nu our patients Since coone in for a little library of books on the subject Every physician during his practice comes upon one or more of these abnormal cases which, as Randall says, we label, for convenience, 'hysteria,' and I'm free to say that I don't think we're at the bottoirl There are points in her favor"