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"How is her health?"

"Very good, apparently She is quite as bloo as when you saw her, and is ined to her life?"

"Sometimes she is and sometimes not She is very sensitive to influences, and at tirows almost as enthusiastic as he--at other times she bitterly coive me the authority necessary"

"What do youin Britt's face as he answered: "I offered to enerous ofthat there was small choice between me and Clarke and the spooks No, I'll be honest, she was very nice and kind about it, and added that perhaps Mr Clarke was right--her duty in the world was to 'convince people of the reality of the forces,' or so like that 'I shall never marry,' she added, to soften the blow, and really she does seem a person set apart"

Serviss looked down at his book "I suppose she iines herself stricken with a mortal illness I confess I sometimes think of her in that way I can't understand why her parents--" He checked hi?"

"They're housed over near the Riverside Drive with a wild enthusiast who has oodles and wads of money--old Simeon Pratt"

"I've heard of Simeon--Uncle Simeon the reporters call him on 'the Street' I remember now about his spiritualism He had some remarkable experiences after his wife's death--drowned, wasn't she?"

"You can't afford to be indefinite about Simeon's sorrows, doctor, for they made him what he is I find these believers all start in about the salish Channel Si Monday--or maybe it was Tuesday"

"I recall the story of his life now It was all very tragic I wonder he didn't become a maniac"

"Some people think he did," answered Britt, dryly

"So they're with Sieously, I'uest in a twenty-franc-per-day hotel in Paris Why, yes, they're very coirl She's discontented and unhappy, if I' faithful, not to speak of certain around "Does she keep up her ain Britt smiled, but not humorously "She plays the harp--in the dark"

"You ulation tricks--, music without hands, etc"