CHAPTER XI.
The ladies were out driving, the following afternoon, when Dr.Hull arrived, but Paul was at home.

He brought out some cigars, and they made themselves comfortable on the piazza.
Dr.Hull was full of questions about Ida?
how she appeared; what relations had established themselves between Miss Ludington and her; whether she showed any memory whatever of her disembodied state; whether the knowledge of the mystery involving her seemed in any way to affect her spirits or temper, or to set her apart in her own estimation from others, with many other acute and carefully considered queries calculated to elicit the facts of her mental and spiritual condition?
"There is one point," said the doctor, "about which I am particularly curious.

How is it with her memory of her former life on earth?
Does it break off suddenly, as if on some particular day or hour her spirit had made way for its successor, and passed away from earth ?" "On the contrary," said Paul, "she has intimated, in talking over the past with Miss Ludington, that the memory of her life on earth is clear and precise during its earlier portions, but that toward the last it grows hazy and indistinct." "Exactly," broke in the doctor.

"Just as if her personality had a little overlapped and melted at the edge into that which followed it.

Yes, it is as I thought it might be.