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"I don't care," the girl recklessly replied, "I a to be honest with Dr Serviss I don't like what I do, and I don't intend to trust er They randfather would be so cruel as to push ain warned Serviss fro this outburst too seriously "She is possessed, doctor Sos to you She's not herself"
Viola seized on this admission "That's just it They've destroyed hts If there are good spirits, there must be bad spirits--don't you think so, Dr Serviss?"
His eyes did not waver now His voice was very quiet, but very decisive, as he replied: "My training, , excludes all belief in the return of the dead either as good spirits or bad, but if there are spirits I should certainly think evil of them if they were to force you into a service you abhor I do not pretend to pass judgment on your case--I know so little about it--but I do sympathize with you I deeply feel the injustice of these public tests, and I will do all I can to prevent them"
Mrs Lambert interrupted: "But, Dr Serviss, ood; to question it noould be to question ed his shoulders a little iround there The wishes of the dead have no weight withThe question which I beg you to consider is whether you wish your daughter to continue in this mental torture? Do you want her name blazoned to the world as a public race to her private toruides' say she will be taken care of, and as for the disgrace, that is all iain burst forth: "They are always talking toa medium, about the distinction of it, and when I ask what distinction the world gave to the Fox sisters or Hoed since then But it has not changed enough to ht to be; but saying so does not make it so Every time I read of a medium exposed I turn cold and hot, for I know people consider all o about all my life like an outcast I don't want to be happy after I'm dead; I want to be happy now I don't want to be different froirls; I want to be like them If they publish me, I will be a medium forever I will be in constant terror of attack, and that will drive me insane--they must set me free! Dr Serviss," she pleaded, as if she were the victi There must be some way for you to help me"