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"You needn't quote Haeckel to me, Morton If I believed what he preaches I would take myself and my children out of the world I don't see how a s I can't read any of your scientific friends straight along Their jargon is worse than anything, but I pick out enough to know that they don't believe in anything they can't see, and they won't go out of their way to see things Do you suppose I' but a little animal, and that if he should die his soul would disappear like a vapor?"

"I can only repeat that the converse is unthinkable There is no room in my philosophy for the re-entrance of the dead"

"Why not? It's all very sis, aren't we? Now, sitting there in the dark to-night, it seemed to me that the people we think of as dead were all about me It scaredfaith in the world? I've always liked the idea of the Indian's happy 'hunting-grounds'--and this is so like it"

He sht and this conversation would make a pretty story to lay before the president of Corlear--noouldn't it?"

"How do you suppose he will take your going into this investigation?"

"I don't know, but I think he'll 'fire' me instanter"

"Well, let hiht I was hurting the institution See what they did to poor little Combes, who mildly claimed to be able to hypnotize people"

"Yes, but he made himself ridiculous in the papers"

"You mean the papers made him ridiculous Couldn't they do the sa, sketchy drawing in the Blast, with Weissown--his hands spread like claws upon the table, while another youngeroverhead Oh yes, there are great possibilities in to-night's entertainment May I ask you, Mrs Rice, to be more than usually circuood Now I think you would better go to bed"

"I wish your Mr Lanore my summons Unless I hear from him to-morrow I shall consider him craven or indifferent"

"What will you do then?"

His brows contracted into a frown "I don't know She should be freed from Clarke's immediate influence, but I don't see how I can interfere"