I was born in Hilton twenty-three years ago, several years after Miss Ludington left the village.

My father is Mr.Slater, of course, but he is the person you know as Dr.Hull, which is an assumed name.

Mrs.Legrand, who is no more dead than you are, is a sister of my father.

Her husband is dead, and father acts as her manager, and mother helps about the seances, and does what she can in any way to bring a little money.

We have always been very poor, and it has been very, very hard for us to get a living.