"She was all I had," she sobbed.
"Had Mrs.Legrand friends ?" asked Miss Ludington, conscience-stricken with the thought that she had indirectly been in part responsible for this terrible event.
"She had friends who will look after Alta," said Dr.Hull.
Their assistance being no longer needed, Miss Ludington and Paul turned from the sad scene and stepped forth from the cabinet into the back parlour.
The tragedy which they had just witnessed had to a great extent driven from their thoughts the events of the seance which it had broken off so abruptly.

The impression left on their minds was that the spirit-form of Ida had vanished in the blinding flood of gas-light through which they had groped their way to the cabinet on hearing the death-rattle of the medium.
But now in the remotest corner of the room, towards which they had last seen the form of the spirit drifting, there stood a young girl.

She was bending forward, shielding her eyes with her right hand from the flaring gas, as she peered curiously about the room, her whole attitude expressive of complete bewilderment.
It was Ida; but what a change had passed upon her! This was no pale spirit, counterfeiting for a few brief moments, with the aid of darkness, the semblance of mortal flesh, but an unmistakable daughter of earth.

Her bosom was palpitating with agitation, and, instead of the lofty serenity of a spirit, her eyes expressed the trouble of a perplexed girl who is fast becoming frightened.
As Paul and Miss Ludington stepped forth from the cabinet she fixed upon them a pair of questioning eyes.

There was not a particle of recognition in their expression.