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For half an hourthat which was always in his ue pleasant expectancy on what Sunday night should bring forth Mr Vincent, he kneas returning to town that afternoon Perhaps, even, he ht look in for a few iven

The effect of thethese past weeks That air of virile masterfulness, all the more impressive because of its extreme quiet assurance, had proved even more deep than had at first appeared

It is very hard to analyze the eleentle is an enor a part in the sub-currents that run about the world as any ists of the materialistic school would probably say that it was a survival of the tribe-and-war instinct At any rate, there it is

Added to all this was the peculiar relation in which the medium stood to the boy; it was he who had first opened the door towards that strange other world that so persistently haunts the ih hiht before the evidence of his senses, as he thought, the actuality of the things of which he had dreaion had so It was not that Laurie had been insincere in his religion; there had been moments, and there still were, occasionally, when the world that the Catholic religion preached by word and sy was upon a different plane Religion bade him approach in one way, spiritualis to do with one; they were the only ultimate channels of the other And it is extraordinarily easy for huard as more fundamentally real the evidence of the senses than the evidence of faith

Here then were the two choices--a world of spirit, to be taken largely on trust, to be discerned only in shadow and outline upon rare and unusual occasions of exaltation, of a particular quality which had almost lost its appeal; and a world of spirit that took shape and foribility, in ordinary rooms and under very nearly ordinary circumstances--a world, in short, not of a transcendent God and the spirits of just nated with experience, inhabited by known souls who in this method or that made themselves apparent to those senses which, Laurie believed, could not lie And the point of contact was Aent herself