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"I as I want to talk with you about--but not now--it is late"

Clarke, who had grown too restless to re, and rose, saying, harshly: "It is ti Pratt will lock us out if we don't"

The cloud again fell on Viola's face--her little hour of freedoe in her, and so did Kate, who fairly pleaded with the mother to remain "It is late and you are tired, and after this wonderful evening you ought not to go back to that gloomy place"

Mrs Lambert looked at Clarke, whose reply was stern "No, wevery sweet and intimate was in Morton's voice as he found opportunity to say to Viola: "I don't like to think of you returning to that gilded mausoleum It is a most unwholesome place for you You are too closely surrounded with o back--I adood reat deal for the faith, and he is very generous to us, but oh, he is so vulgar, so i always at my elbow I shudder when he touches me as if he were some sort of evil animal Mother can't realize how he annoys and depresses me, and Anthony insists that we must endure it"

"I wish you'd stay here!" he exclaiive us such an opportunity to talk of this sitting Come, let me send for your trunks"

She shrank a little froain interposed "It is quite impossible, professor; perhaps some other tiet her cloak, and Morton turned to Clarke "One of the conditions of anize a committee is this: you and Pratt must be excluded froht! That we deyman's face hardened "You ask the impossible It is necessary for ht to be there as the historian of the case Furtherth of the manifestations--that I have fully demonstrated"

"I appreciate your position, but in order to avoid criticism, to make the tests perfect, it will be necessary to hold the sittings either here or at Weissmann's, and to exclude every one connected with Miss Lambert In no other way can we convince ourselves or the public"