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Is it about her that you wish to consult the spirits?" "Yes," said the spirit voice, before Bosio could answer. "You are afraid that they will murder her, if you do not marry her or if she will not marry you." Bosio uttered a loud exclamation of alarm and astonishment, for this was altogether beyond anything in his experience. "Is it so?" asked Giuditta Astarita. "Yes.
Bosio was standing before the window, looking out at the blank wall, when he heard some one enter the room and softly close the door. Giuditta Astarita came forward as he turned round. He saw a heavy, phlegmatic woman, still very young, though abnormally stout, with an unhealthy face, thin black hair and large weak eyes of a light china blue.
He was not, under any circumstances, a man to speak of such things to a third person. Then, how did this Giuditta Astarita know what Matilde had said and done? It was not natural, and not natural meant supernatural supernatural meant the possibility of communication, and she had loved the dead man with all her big, sinful soul.
"This is his answer," continued the voice. "He cannot come to you when you are alone, as yet. By and by he will come. But he watches over you. For the present he can only speak with you through Giuditta Astarita, who is now asleep." "Is she asleep?" asked Matilde. "She is in a trance," the voice replied. "I speak through her, but when she awakes, she will not know what I have said.
He had come quite unexpectedly and had not given his name, and the spirit, or whatever it might be, had instantly told him of Veronica, of her danger, of his brother and sister-in-law and of the will. Moreover, the friends who had spoken to him of Giuditta Astarita had told him similar tales within a few days. The spirit had said that the handsome woman would make him marry Veronica.
It would be natural enough, amongst such people, as Bosio knew, but he wondered how many more of the same family lived in the rooms beyond the one in which he had received spirit-communications, and whether Giuditta Astarita supported them all by her extraordinary talents. He descended the damp stone stairs and passed out into the street again, dazed and disturbed in mind.
The corners were shadowy, and her eyes searched in them uneasily, and she would not turn her back upon them again and look out of the windows. Then the door opened noiselessly, and Giuditta Astarita entered, in her loose black silk gown, with her little bunch of charms against the evil eye, hanging by a chain from a button hole.
He rang the little tinkling bell, which was answered by a very respectably dressed woman servant with only one eye, a fact which Bosio noticed because it was the blind side of her face which first appeared as the door opened. The Signora Giuditta Astarita was at home, and there was no other visitor.
Then he went on till he came to the right number, entered a gloomy doorway, black with dampness and foul air, ascended four flights of dark stone steps, and stopped before a small brown door. The card nailed upon it was like the one he had in his pocket-book. The name was 'Giuditta Astarita, and under it, in another character, was printed the word 'Somnambulist.
It was accompanied by a card on which Matilde read 'Giuditta Astarita, Sonnambula, and the address was below, in one corner. The few words of the letter, written in a subtle, sloping, feminine handwriting, correctly spelt and grammatically well expressed, ran as follows: "The spirit of B.M. wishes to make you an important communication and torments me continually.
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