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Well, this at any rate was a small commentary on the present situation (The priest stopped to look at so up in the bed beside hi heavily, to ser) And as for this Spiritualistic nonsense--of course the whole thing was a trick Things did not happen like that Of course the devil could do extraordinary things: or at any rate had been able to do them in the past; but as for Master Laurie Baxter--whose home was down there in the ha law--as for the thought that this rather superior Saxon young man was in direct communication with Satan at the present tihter

Yet it was very unwholesome and unhealthy That was the worst of these converts; they could not be content with the sober workaday facts of the Catholic creed Theyafter some novelty or other And it was e dinner-bell pealed from the back door; and the priest went in to roast beef with Yorkshire pudding, apple dulass of port-wine to end up with

III

It was strange how Maggie felt steadied and encouraged in the presence of so as Laurie was merely tiresome and foolish, she distrusted herself, she made little rules and resolutions, and deliberately kept herself interiorly detached fro definite to look to, her sensitiveness vanished

As to what that so was, she did not trust herself to decide Father Mahon had given her a point to work at--the fact that the thing, as a serious pursuit, was forbidden; as to what the reality behind hether indeed there were any reality at all, she did not allow herself to consider Laurie was in a state of nerves sufficiently troublesouide; and he was in that state through playing tricks on forbidden ground; that was enough

Her intervieith Father Mahon precipitated her half-formed resolution; and after tea she went upstairs to write to Mr Cathcart

It was an unconventional thing to do, but she was sufficiently perturbed to disregard that drawback, and she wrote a very sensible letter, explaining first who she was; then, without any na mentioned, she described her adopted brother's position, and indicated his experiences: she occupied the last page in asking two or three questions, and begging for general advice