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Life seeled with the fear of death and a hate of the day, a delegation of those who clai froe contained words which startled him He was persuaded to seek confirmation He was convinced and became the htened A neorld opened for him He announced his intention to use his vast wealth for the faith which had conificent temple to the unseen He hired speakers and musicians to entertain and instruct those who caht out and entertained scores of mediums, psychics, sensitives, inspiritual speakers, and natural healers--all elcoht have been called, and was called, "the prey of harpies," but, as his interests noere in these matters, and as he had the means ithal to amuse himself, surely he was not a loser True, he was ed by fraudulent seers, but still he enjoyed the exquisite solace which the voice of his wife unfailingly brought when the conditions were favorable He was no longer hopeless; on the contrary, he was reanihters came less often to speak to hiloith their gay words At times it seemed that he could reach out his hands and touch their soft cheeks, so palpable were they, so intimate and familiar were their voices

Gradually a part of his old-tiible uish and to cast out the base and parasitic prestidigitators who infested his house He grew discerning, and was able to weed the tares from the wheat, and with this discernment came the conviction that it was his duty to violently expose those who sought to cheat hiorous denouncement of this and that performer raised storms of opposition; for it seemed that no trickster, noHis purposes clarified Aided by cunning counsel, he began to conceive of hined to his lot, he set hin of the spirit-world

It was into the hands of this shattered yet still powerful man that Viola Lambert had been persuaded to deliver herself, and Simeon, convinced of her powers by experinity, had pushed all other keepers of the door of silence fro a teave up the luxury of his table, the munificence of his purse, only after persuasion, and in bitterness and wrath