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It was not till evening that her servants reminded her that she had not eaten that day, and induced her to take food. The next afternoon Paul arrived. He had not been without very serious doubt as to the manner in which his argument for the immortality of past selves might impress Miss Ludington. A mild melancholy such as hers sometimes becomes sweet by long indulgence.
Legrand became greatly interested, and at once said that she would cancel a previous appointment, and give Miss Ludington a séance the following evening, at her parlours, No. East Tenth Street, at nine o'clock. Mrs.
Perhaps it was not so strange that you were deceived. I think any one might have been who held the belief you did at the outset. "I am Ida Slater, Mrs. Slater's daughter, whom she named after Miss Ludington, because she thought her name so pretty when they went to school together as children in Hilton.
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 séance which it had broken off so abruptly.
"For me to call you Ida, as you call me, would be and, besides, you are so much older than I it would seem hardly fitting." Miss Ludington laughed softly. "On the score of respect, my darling, you need not hesitate," she said, "for it is you who are the elder Miss Ludington, and I the younger, in spite of my white hair.
There is no reason why we should not write sometimes, is there? though we never see each other. Does Miss Ludington really forgive me, or does she merely consent to have me return because you still care for me? If you do still care for me Oh, Paul! I cannot believe it do you forget what I have done? Read over again the letter I left for you when I came away. You must have forgotten it.
Otherwise, suspicions of fraud not entertained, perhaps, at the time, might afterwards occur to the mind, or be suggested by others, to which they would have no conclusive answer." Upon this Miss Ludington and Paul permitted themselves to be conducted upon the same tour of inspection that they had made the former evening. They found everything precisely as it had been on that occasion.
As Paul from time to time, during the reading, glanced at Ida he noticed that she kept her face averted. "I am glad," said Miss Ludington, as she finished the letter, "that Mrs. Legrand is happy. It is so hard to realize that about the dead. The feeling that, our happiness was purchased by her death has been the only cloud upon it. And yet it would be strange indeed if she were not happy.
But these other women, these mothers, call souls out of nothingness, and clothe them with bodies, so that they speak, walk, work, love, and hate, some forty, some fifty, some seventy years." "You are right," said Paul bowing his head. "It is not strange though it is hard to bear." The effect of the séance at Mrs. Legrand's upon Miss Ludington had been far less disturbing than upon Paul.
As for the idea that this medium could show her the spirit of her former self, or any other real spirit, it was simply imbecile to entertain it for a moment. If, however, Miss Ludington was relieved by Mrs. Slater's letter, Paul was keenly disappointed. His prejudice against spiritualism was by no means so deeply rooted as hers.
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