The tourists were much shocked by the receipt of the intelligence, but Paul expressed the inmost conviction of both when he finally said, "Now that she is gone, perhaps it is as well.
Ashes to ashes! The past has claimed its own." They never rebuilt the village or the homestead, but on their return to this country took up their residence in New York.

The site of the mimic Hilton is once more tilled as a farm.
It is scarcely necessary to add that Ida made such provision for her family as enabled them to retire from the medium business.

Paul insisted that this provision should be at the most generous nature, for was he not indebted to them for the happiness of his life?
He never would admit that Mrs.Legrand was a fraud, but always maintained that none but a truly great medium could have materialized the vaguest of love-dreams into the sweetest of wives.
As for Dr.Hull, or, rather, Mr.Slater, he became in time quite a crony of Paul's, and the book on which the latter is engaged, setting forth the argument for the immortality of past selves, will owe not a little to the suggestions of the old gentleman.
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