"It was a mere accident my chancing to know anything about her.

I have a friend, a Mrs.Rhinehart, who has recently lost her husband, and she got in a way of going to this Mrs.Legrand's seances to see him, and once she took me with her." Miss Ludington and Paul waited a moment, and then, perceiving that she was not going to say anything more, exclaimed in the same breath, "Did you see anything ?" "We saw the figure of a fine-looking man," replied Mrs.Slater.

"We could distinguish his features and expression very plainly, and he seemed to recognize my friend.

She said that it was her husband.

Of course I know nothing about that.