therefore the visitor must needs occupy Eunice's charming boudoir
and dressing-room as a bedroom. This inconvenienced the Emburys,
but they put up with it perforce.

Nor would they have so disliked to entertain the old lady had it
not been for her predilection for occult matters. Her visit to
their home coincided with her course of Clairvoyant Sittings and
her class of Psychic Development.

These took place at houses in undesirable, sometimes unsavory
localities and only Aunt Abby's immovable determination made it
possible for her to attend.

A large text-book, "The Voice of the Future," was her inseparable
companion, and one of her chief, though, as yet, unfulfilled,
desires was to have a Reading given at the Embury home by the
Swami Ramananda.

Eunice, by dint of stern disapproval, and Sanford, by his
good-natured chaffing and ridicule had so far prevented this
calamity, but both feared that Aunt Abby might yet outwit them
and have her coveted seance after all.

Outside of this phase of her character, Miss Ames was not an
undesirable guest. She had a good sense of humor, a kind and
generous heart and was both perceptive and responsive in matters
of household interest.

Owing to the early death of Eunice's mother, Aunt Abby had
brought up the child, and had done her duty by her as she saw it.