"MRS. ALDERLING CAME OUT WITH A BOOK IN HER HAND"

"'I'M AFRAID I'M RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT'"

"'WHY, THERE ISN'T ANY PUNISHMENT SEVERE ENOUGH FOR A CRIME LIKE THAT'"

"HE BROKE INTO A SOBBING THAT SEEMED TO WRENCH AND TEAR"




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HIS APPARITION.




I.


The incident was of a dignity which the supernatural has by no means
always had, and which has been more than ever lacking in it since the
manifestations of professional spiritualism began to vulgarize it. Hewson
appreciated this as soon as he realized that he had been confronted with
an apparition. He had been very little agitated at the moment, and it was
not till later, when the conflict between sense and reason concerning the