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One 'swith it instant, vivid recollection of Colorow The beauty of his days there had by no h he had succeeded in putting his roiven up all thought of ever seeing Viola again

He greeted Britt ? Isn't this a raw time of the year for you?"

"Well, yes; butnear I ran in to see how you and the 'bugs' were getting on"

"Oh, we're thriving Their ways are quite absorbing How is your own 'farlected the poor little brutes I had no tierms after I went off into the study of 'spooks'"

"You don't tell ator of spirits! What have you discovered?"

"Not a thing It's the most elusive problem I ever tackled You remember the Lamberts?"

"Very well I was about to ask about them"

"They're here now"

"Here! In New York?"

"Yes They went to Boston last fall--Boston is a hot-bed of spookis the brethren, and have coirl doing?"

"Spooking uides' will allow her to do Clarke still doranddaddy--a griular 'séances' now"

"You don't raver yet of countenance "I had hoped they would spare her that humiliation I haven't seen her nao quite so far as that The circles are 'very select' Only the priests of the faith and their friends are invited--no adlad of that It would be too bad to put that child forward in the double rôle of fakir and ht on the subject of her htly I'enerally some basis for the faith The literature of the subject is immense, and some of it is as well authenticated as any physical treatise I'm convinced that Miss Lambert has no intent to deceive--she has no possible motive to do so--but Clarke has, and yet I cannot connect him directly with the phenomena"