'Ministering Spirit!' he said, 'free me from the life of earth.

Take me with you to the life eternal.' "She made no attempt to enlighten him.

'Wait,' she answered calmly, 'wait and rest.' "Silently obeying her, he turned his head on the pillow; we saw his face no more.
"I have related the circumstances exactly as they happened: the ghost story which report has carried to your ears has no other foundation than this.
"Mrs.Evelin led the way to that further end of the room in which the screen stood.

Placing ourselves behind it, we could converse in whispers without being heard.

Her first words told me that she had been warned by one of the hospital doctors to respect my friend's delusion for the present.