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"No, not in the sense you host, but the memory of him will torture her soul; and if she believes that he is able to coic as the fact"

"Morton, it is a test!" she exclaimed, with breathless solemnity "If there is any truth in spiritualism, he will manifest himself to her and you cannot prevent it"

"I know it is a test and I welcome it! I stake all that I a She has no hint of his deed at this moment, and with all her clairvoyance I am perfectly certain she will not be able to read what is in our ue If you can't do that, I beg of you to stay in your room" He was harsh and curt in his tone; and she shrank from him "Her mental health, her sanity, may be in peril"

"I can keep silence," she replied, "But, oh, Morton, think of that poor girl--up there in some bleak hotel in Canada, with only these two old people! Suppose he does come to her there, what can they do? Wouldn't it be better to keep her here--let her learn it here--where you can help her?"

"And be haled before the coroner, to be charged perhaps with poisoning Clarke, or so? No, I have been all over the ground, and I tell you there is no other way She ht The police o with her," she retorted, with a decision almost equal to his own "She needs you"

"No, no I can't do that," he replied, i her It is utterly out of the question"

Kate, knowing that she was asking a good deal, went resolutely on: "She has no one but you to lean upon She trusts you, and she ought to have so, sane person on whom to rely I would be worse than useless up there I ae upon her! Besides, by going with her you will escape some of the notoriety about to thrust upon you"

He was plainly vacillating "Think of the fat news-iteht will add to the stew"

Kate shuddered "Oh, I know! I hope you don't bla to see her" She was beginning to suffer with this thought, when he put out his hand and drew her to him with affectionate wish to comfort her