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Title: Possessed

Author: Cleveland Moffett

Release Date: July 26, 2007 [EBook #22152]

Language: English

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POSSESSED

by

CLEVELAND MOFFETT

_Author of "Through the Wall", etc._

NEW YORK

THE JAMES A. McCANN COMPANY

1920

Copyright 1920 by

THE JAMES A. McCANN COMPANY

_All Rights Reserved_

Printed in U. S. A.

DEDICATION

Whatever the defects or limitations of this story, I can assure my
readers that it is largely based on truth. Many of the incidents,
including the dual personality phenomena, were suggested by actual
happenings known to me. The doctor who accomplishes cures by occult
methods is a friend of mine, who lives and practises in New York City.
Seraphine, the medium, is also a real person. The episode that is
explained by waves of terror passing from one apartment to another and
separately affecting three unsuspecting persons is not imaginary, but
drawn from an almost identical happening that I, myself, witnessed in
Paris, France. And the truth about women that I have tried to tell has
been largely obtained from women themselves, women in various walks of
life, who have been kind enough to give me most of the opinions and
experiences that are contained in Penelope's diary. To them I now
gratefully dedicate this book.

C. M.

CONTENTS

PAGE

PROLOGUE 1

CHAPTER

I. VOICES 6

II. WHAT PENELOPE COULD NOT TELL THE DOCTOR 18

III. A BOWL OF GOLD FISH 42

IV. FIVE PURPLE MARKS 46

V. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AT THE STUDIO 53

VI. EARTH-BOUND 62

VII. JEWELS 70

VIII. WHITE SHAPES 80

IX. THE C