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Tales like this of Cardinal New

And Maggie had her theology also; to her also it appeared quite i-rooe impressions with Mrs Stapleton; but she waswas simply untrue; and that was the end of it She found it difficult therefore to follow her coht

"What was it she said?" demanded Mrs Baxter presently "I didn't understand her ideas about materialisie patiently "She said that when things were very favorable, and the ood one, the soul that wanted to communicate could make a kind of body for itself out of what she called the astral matter of the medium or the sitters"

"But surely our bodies aren't like that?"

"No; I can't say that I think they are But that's what she said"

"My dear, please explain I want to understand the woie frowned a little

"Well, the first thing she said was that those souls want to cos like table-rapping, or hts Then when you know they're there, they can go further Soain control of the h his are favorable, they begin to draw out this matter, and make it into a kind of body for themselves, very thin and ethereal, so that you can pass your hand through it Then, as things get better and better, they go further still, and can make this body so solid that you can touch it; only this is soerous, as it is still, in a sort of way, connected with the ood of it all?"

"Well, you see, Mrs Stapleton thinks that they really are souls from the other world, and that they can tell us all kinds of things about it all, and what's true, and so on"

"But you don't believe that?"

Maggie turned her large eyes on the old lady; and a spark of hulimmered in them

"Of course I don't," she said

"Then how do you explain it?"

"I think it's probably all a fraud But I really don't know It doesn't seem to me to matter much--"