ive, "made me take up with it. She's my damnable enemy. I hate
her. My God! I'd poison her! No, I wouldn't, but I'll lash her with
my tongue. She was twenty-three years old the day I was born. I was
an aunt seven years before I was born. Ha! ha!

"Yes, I am going to expose Spiritualism from its very foundation. I
have had the idea in my head for many a year, but I have never come
to a determination before. I've thought of it day and night. I loath
the thing I have been. As I used to say to those who wanted me to
give a seance, 'You are driving me into hell.' Then the next day I
would drown my remorse in wine. I was too honest to remain a
'medium.' That's why I gave up my exhibitions.

"When Spiritualism first began Kate and I were little children, and
this old woman, my other sister, made us her tools. Mother was a
silly woman. She was a fanatic. I call her that because she was
honest. She believed in these things. Spiritualism started from just
nothing. We were but innocent little children. What did we know? Ah,
we grew to know too much! Our sister used us in her exhibitions and
we made money for her. Now she turns upon us because she's the wife
of a rich man, and she opposes us both wherever she can. Oh, I am
after her! You can kill sometimes without using weapons, you know.

"Dr. Kane found me when I was leading this life. [The woman's voice
trembled just here and she nearly broke down.] I was only thirteen
when he took me out of it and placed me at school. I was educated in
Philadelphia. When I was sixteen years old he returned from the
Arctic and we were married. Now comes the sad, sad tale. He was very
ill. The physicians ordered him to London, but before he arrived he
had a paralytic stroke of the heart. Then he was sent back from
London and to Havana. Newsboys shouted in the streets of New York
the news of his critical condition. Oh, my God! it was anguish to my
ears! Mother and I were to have joined him in two weeks. He died
before we arrived. Then I had brain fever. No one but God can know
what sorrows I have had!

"When I recovered I was driven again into Spiritualism, and I gave
exhibitions with my sister Katie. I knew, of course, then, that every
effect produced by us was absolute fraud. Why, I have explored the
unknown as far as hum