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"I ah I had no fear I knew ht hen the ti in the warmth of his interest "Before these revelations came to me I had no real faith in God or heaven The world beyond the grave was dark and cold It seemed to round I couldn't feel that they had gone to Christ But now the toht The spirit-plane is as real as the earth-plane, and filled with joyous souls I can hear the sometimes when I hold Viola's hand, and the sound is very beautiful and very co"

"I can understand that," he answered, but quietly, critically, still studying her face "It has a warerly: "I wish you could come to believe Your sister said your ht Why can't you accept the faith?"

The young philosopher gained, as she spoke, a new conception of her character, and chilled with a growing sense of the difficult and ungracious task which lay before hian to perceive that her awe of hi froelist which he no she possessed She counted ranted Her faith was solidly based on years of experience and was not to be easily hter's ht; it was a fact, and a daily, almost an hourly, necessity He lost his last suspicion of her, and caught a glier aspect of her relationship to his future She was deceived, of course, but she was honest in every fibre He could not accuse her of the slightest deceit or falsification

In her la the platitudes of the "inspirational speakers," as well as the pompous phrases of her spirit-father, while he listened courteously

When she paused, he said, gravely: "My dear Mrs Lambert, I can't leave you in any doubt of le instant accept what happened last night as the manifestation of the disembodied I cannot think that the phenomena exist I must rather think they were performed by Clarke, or my sister, or Weissmann, in joke" She looked at him with an expression of horror, of incredulity, and he went on, quickly: "Even if I ad or the movement of the horn, I should not by any means be driven to accept your spirit-hypothesis There are ators, ould say that your daughter's trances and all phenorounds of soement I do not say this is the case, but I do say that if she persists in these practices she will lose control of her mental faculties I have had a consultation to-day with Dr Tolman, a man who makes a specialty of such cases, and when I had laid the whole matter before hi of these trances"