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Britt looked at Kate "The painter ht have stood on his head," he blaspheh that splendid roo letters from Napoleon, flowers froether with paternal advice froood co from Shakespeare?"

"Certainly; and fro from Admiral Kidd?" asked Britt

"Or from Mary Jane Holmes?" added Kate

Simeon looked at the jokers in silence, not quite sure whether they intended to trap him or not "No, I save only the words of the most eminent persons in history, outside my own family--I have wonderful testimony from them"

"Ah, show us those, please," cried Kate

He hesitated, pondering Britt's face, and at last said, "I will show you some materializations," and led the way to some cases filled with pressed flowers "These are fro bored, but Britt seemed fascinated by both Pratt and the exhibit "To think of one hu a collection like that--painfully airl--ask hied

"Don't hurry; he can't be turned aside froroove"

The treasures of the drawers hinted at, Simeon proceeded to exhibit other wonders He possessed a coin brought fro into a closed and sealed box "There is no other known to the Western Hemisphere," he said "The British Museum offered me a thousand pounds for it"

To his mind all these slates, pictures, and floere evidences of the interest the great shades had taken in the work of converting Sies were intended to steady him in his convictions and to furnish hi the world to his view The man's faith was like to madness--without one ray of hustudy to Kate, but she was tingling with desire to get at the young seeress and her mother "What must they be," she asked herself, "topause came, Britt explained to Pratt that Mrs Rice was the sister of one who had known Viola in the West, and that she very much wished to see the psychic for a ed," replied Simeon, sulkily; "but I'll see," and he led the way to a s-room on the same floor "Stay here and I'll send your card up"