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"And then, just while we both looked at it, it began to ain exactly as if Waltie were in it It creaked, too, as it used to when he rocked"
"I should have been frightened stiff," exclai that has happened since has given me such a turn Robert jumped up and felt all about the chair, sure that Viola had tied a string to it--and still she was no child for tricks Then Robert bent right down over the chair, and it stopped for a moment, and then slid backward under the table, just as our own boy used to do He loved to play tent Robert looked up at me as white as the dead 'It is Waltie, mother; he has come back to us,' he said, and I believed it, too"
In spite of herself, Kate shivered with a keen, co joy and terror of thatthe end of her mother's explanation Plainly, it was all a wearisome story to her
Mrs Laht, and soon the tappings began, and finally we got into communication with my father, who told us to be patient and wait and Waltie would speak to us Then the power took hold of Viola and frightened her alirl visibly shuddered and her eyes fell
"How did it begin?" asked Kate, breathless with interest
"The first we noticed was that her left aran to twitch so that she couldn't control it Then she took to writing with her left hand, exactly likeShe could write twenty different kinds of writing before she elve These reat s My thimbles would be stolen and hidden, vases would tumble off the mantels, chairs would rock It was just pandes and pound on the doors; then all of a sudden these doings stopped and Viola went into deathly trances I shall never forget that first night We thought she was dead We couldn't see her breathe, and her hands and feet were like ice"
The girl rose, her face gray and rigid "Don't mother, don't!" she whispered "They are here!" She shook her head and cried out as if to the air: "No, no, not now! No, no!"
The e for you, Mrs Rice?"
For the first tihter This action of the girl seeht too opportune and much too theatric Now that her splendid eyes were clouded she lost confidence in her, and as she waited she grew cold with a kind of disgust and fear of as to follow