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"How about the child who spoke German?" asked Kate "Was she--"

Weissirl of the nae"

Kate's voice expressed sympathy "I didn't know that She must have been a dear The voice was very sweet I could al"

"I do not see how Clarke or any one here knew of hter or her name Clarke may be a mind-reader The voice did not prove itself"

"Neither was 'Loggy' quite convincing," said Morton "And yet I cannot understand how those voices were produced Our iinations must have been made enormously active by the dark As scientists we cannot adhtest of those rounded dogmas What becomes of Haeckel's dictum--that matter and spirit are inseparable?"

"There is matter and matter," replied Weissmann "To say that spirit and flesh is inseparable is to claim too much We can say that we have no proof of such separation, but Crookes and others claiht have trenched on the very ground Crookes trod I airl--theI am more than half persuaded, and that is that Clarke is a s which the supposed ghost of ," repeated Weissmann, deep-sunk in speculation; and in this abstraction he took hi, "Now that we are alone, let's know your real mind," faced her brother with eyes of wonder "Morton, what do you honestly think of it? Viola had nothing to do with it, did she?"

"No; but are you absolutely sure Clarke did not get loose and do things?"

"Mort, I was never more alert in my life, and I know he didn't move out of his chair"

"But think what it involves!"

"I don't care what it involves So far as the senses of touch and hearing go, Clarke remained seated every minute of the time, and I certainly held both his and Mrs La thrown"

"Well, there you are Soed his shoulders in an unwonted irritation

"Why not say the spirits did it all?"

"Because that is unthinkable"

"Sir William Crookes and Dr Zöllner, you say, believed in these dise to what Haeckel calls the iinative scientists"