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Kate shuddered "Woo! It givesas wonderful happen to-night?"

"I cannot tell--the conditions are severe, but I think ill have so Viola?" he called, softly

"Yes," she answered, faintly

"Would you like us to sing?"

"No--I'd rather you'd all talk Perhaps they will let ht They promised to do so, you remember"

Weissman recounted some of the experiences Zöllner had enjoyed in Germany shortly after the Fox sisters became so celebrated in America "Crookes and Wallace and several others went into the whole question at that ti with the controversy But the clamor passed, the phenooes, and in the end is humanity the wiser? No"

"Yes, it is," broke in Clarke "We are just that much more certain of the indestructible life of the soul--every wave of this spirit-sea leaves a deposit of fact on the beach of tiains each decade Sir Williae, Alfred Russel Wallace, Lombroso have all been convinced of the reality of these phenoht of their tiht road--"

Morton was suffering with the girl, whose hand was beginning to treer replied to his questions, but that she was still awake he knew, for he could hear her sighing deeply, so deeply that the sound troubled hi His iive over this trial, which could only end in huued "It has arisen through years ofon the part of her mother Up to this moment her performances have always been in the presence of friends and relatives, or for the consolation of those eager to believe, and therefore easily deluded Every sitter has conspired to practically force her into an elaborate series of deceptions, each deceit being built upon and made necessary by the other It is pitiful, but she now believes in herself--that is pathetically certain Otherwise she would not have yielded herself so coator like Weissri of the lips "We htto Mrs Lambert "I do not care for a return of hter to do is quite simple I would like her to move a particle of matter from A to B, without a known push or a pull--that is to say, by a power not known to science--as Zöllner claimed Slade was able to do for him"