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As regards his exact attitude to this girl it is more difficult to write On the one side the human element--those associations directly connected with the senses--her actual face and hands, physical ats--those had disappeared; they were dispersed, or they lay underground; and it had been with a certain shock of surprise, in spite of the explanations given to him, that he had seen what he believed to be her face in the drawing-rooe all this in his iain In short, he thought he understood now that it is character which gives unity to the transient qualities of a person on earth, and that, when those qualities disappear, it is as uni to the spiritualists' gospel that character manifests itself from the other side, it naturally reconstitutes the fornized on earth

Yet, in spite of this sense of familiarity hat he had seen, there had fallen between Aust shadow that is called Death And in spite of the assurances he had received, even at the hands of his own senses, that this was indeed the sae awe led with his old rather shallow passion There were ht, when it rose almost to terror; just as there were otherwas flooded with an extraordinary ecstatic seht that he and she could yet speak with one another I home finds that his lory of er point--which, somehow, he knewnotes should beco next Up to now he had had evidence of her presence, he had received intelligible h the mysterious veil, he had for an instant or two looked upon her face; but the real point, he hoped, would come in two days The public séances had not impressed him He had been to three or four of these in a certain road off Baker Street, and had been astonished and disappointed The kind of people that he hadevidence than the average child, with a credulity that was almost supernatural--the mediuers; the hy pseudo-iose fool could not invent--in fact the whole affair, frohostly tambourines overhead, the puerility of the tricks played on the inquirers, and all the rest of it--this seemed as little connected hat he had experienced with Mr Vincent as a dervish dance with High Mass He had reflected with algie, and the remarks it would elicit