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"Do you believe that, Dr Serviss?"

"I am perfectly certain of it, if you will meet my conditions I am confident of my power to free you from your trances and all their phenomena, but you must, at once and for all time, break every tie that binds you to your 'controls'"

"I'm afraid they will not consent"

"You , much less think it," he sharply interrupted "Your soul, your n You should look rather to science for guidance"--here he sly--"and to me, of course, as a representative of science If you acknowledge the authority of the dead, or even that of your mother, my power is to that extent curtailed It is to be in effect a war of light and darkness, science and superstition We are willing to join issue with your shadow foes, provided your best self is with us in the struggle I engage myself to free you if you will permit me to act"

She leaned towards hiood to ht my battles You have sobetter to do," he responded, with a lover's glance "Nothing can interest reater pleasure"

She went on, fervently: "I can't tell you how you co; but you oughtn't to give up your work to treat me We can never pay you for what you've already done for us"

"Don't try, and pray don't exaggerate ator, and you--are a htly, and he returned to a more serious tone "The influence of , problem, and you have opened a neorld to me The question of your future, your cure, absorbs me, and while I am by no means a rich man, as money runs these days, I aation which may interest me"

Her face clouded, "I wish I didn't have to be investigated"

"So do I, and that brings up so hard and cruel If you wish to live your full, free life, you must cut yourself off from all of your old associations Clarke and Pratt have passed out of your life, but your mother--" He paused abruptly When he resu: "You have said that you trusted me, that you wished for my help Did you mean it?"