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"Bring it here!" said Miss Cornelia implacably; then as Lizzie still hesitated, "Lizzie!"

Shivering, every movement of her body a conscious protest, Lizzie sloent over to the bookcase, lifted off the prayer book, and took down the ouija-board Even then she would not carry it north, as if any closer contact would blast her with lightning, her face a co and repulsion

She placed the lettered board in Miss Cornelia's lap with a sigh of relief "You can do it yourself! I'll have none of it!" she said firmly

"It takes two people and you know it, Lizzie Allen!" Miss Cornelia's voice was stern but--it was also aroaned, but she knew her mistress She obeyed She carefully chose the farthest chair in the roo it over to where herfor you for twenty years," she ot a right to speak ot a mind Sit down," she coh of tried patience, Miss Cornelia put her unwilling fingers on the littletable that is used to point to the letters on the board itself Then she placed her own hands on it, too, the tips of the fingers just touching Lizzie's

"Now make your mind a blank!" she coot any nificently, "ot a blank"

The repartee silenced Lizzie for the moment, but only for the moment As soon as Miss Cornelia had settled herself co station for ouija an to h thick and thin," she etarian--I stood by you when you were a theosophist--and I seen you through socialis on with ghosts--"

"Be still!" ordered Miss Cornelia "Nothing will co!" said Lizzie, driven to the wall "My teeth are, too," she added "I can hardly keepof artificial molars attested the truth of the remark Then, to Miss Cornelia's relief, she was silent for nearly two minutes, only to start so violently at the end of the time that she nearly upset the ouija-board on her mistress's toes