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"It's the rogue who looks like a gentleest race"

"Well," ended Kate, rather helplessly, "see her--see her before you condemn her"

"But I have seen her--I've spent more days in her company than you have hours"

Kate looked at him with new interest "You didn't tell me that before You said you'd , but"--his voice changed to earnest protest--"but, Kate, the thing the girl claie It is a survival of the past It belongs to a world of dreams and portents It is of a piece with the old crone's tales, fortune-telling, pale or hocus-pocus which reat deal of thought to her fate My heart bleeds for her, but what can I do? She really needs the care of a great physician, like Tols and sent away to Europe or back to her hills When I saw her last she was as sweet and blithe as a bobolink--ere on the trail together, so far above the irlhood seehted soul Why don't she go back? She is vigorous and experienced in travel Her step-father is not poor; he is rich Why don't she pull away and go back to her valley?"

"Do you knohat a 'control' is?"

"I believe that is the naive the particular spirits which assuuide ais in randfather She was quite defiant till Clarke reuide would cut her down in her tracks if she refused Then she wilted--went right off into death-like sleep It was pitiful to see her Clarke was terrible when he said it--he is a regular Svengali, I believe, and the mother is completely dominated by him One of the spooks is her own father, the other her first husband It seeirl to their science, for it seeh to us from their side, and Viola is their avenue of coirl believes in it all She rebels at ti these trances ever since she was ten years old" As the ed her tone "You needn't tell me, Morton Serviss, that these people are frauds They may be mistaken, but they're horribly in earnest They believe in those spirits as you do in germs, and Viola is absolutely helpless in their hands, if you can say they have hands They can throw her into a trance at any moment They've made her life a misery She is absolutely enslaved to them"