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But she had mastered herself For opposite to her sat her

patroness, her good friend, the woman who had saved her The flush

upon Mitation of herupon the success of this last seance How much

for both of thereat fear assailed her

She began to be afraid, so strong was her reluctance, that she

would not bring her heart into the task "Suppose I failed tonight

because I could not force ht, and she steeled herself against the thought Tonight she

ether from Mme Dauvray's happiness,

her own, it seemed, was at stake too

"It must be from my lips that Harry learns what I have been," she

said to herself, and with the resolve she strengthened herself

"I hat you please," she said, with a snol to be satisfied"

"And I shall be," said Adele, "if--" She leaned forward in

anxiety She had come to the real necessity of Helene Vauquier's

plan "If we abandon as quite laughable the cupboard door and the

string across it; if, in a word, mademoiselle consents that we tie

her hand and foot and fasten her securely in a chair Such

restraints are usual in the experiments of which I have read Was

there not a medium called Mlle Cook as secured in this way,

and then res, which I could not believe, were