Mrs. Winslow's stay in New York was rather an interruption to Miss
Evalena Gray's business, as those two champions of the theory that earth
and heaven are connected by a spiritual hyphen only adjustable, or to be
made serviceable, by the brainless imbeciles or the remorseless sharks
of society, to the exclusion of people of purity and worth, indulged in
several lapses from sobriety, and in spiritual love-feasts of such
remarkable length and enthusiasm that W. Sterling Bischoff, Mlle.
Leveraux, and the mournful accommodation husband, "Daddy," became quite
alarmed for the result, were obliged to discontinue the marvellous
seances at No. Nineteen West Twenty-first Street--on account of the
"alarming illness of the fascinating little medium," as the manager was
careful to see that the truthful newspapers announced--and at the close
of a term of spirituous rapture of remarkable intensity and duration,
the three who were vitally interested in Miss Gray's recovery from her
peculiarly alarming illness, managed to part the loving couple, induce
the languid Evalena to return to her fascinations and fools, and sent
Mrs. Winslow to Rochester and her roguery.

Although her trip to New York had been one of prolonged dissipation,
Mrs. Winslow had evidently gained courage from it from the assurance of
Miss Gray's friendship, and through that ingenious little woman's
recitals of daring and conquest now applied herself with new vigor and
dash to her infamous work.

During her absence in New York, Superintendent Bangs and a legal
gentleman from Rochester had proceeded to the West and were rapidly
gathering in the harvest of evidence I had reaped, and which
subsequently became so serviceable.

Mrs. Winslow, seeing she had been outwitted, began diligently arranging
matters for the coming trial, and having lost the main point of
dependence which she had hoped to make in our inability to use the
evidence which she was sure Lyon's counsel could get by a liberal
expenditure of money, which she also knew must be at hand, she began the
tactics of delay, and secured a change of venue from Rochester to
Batavia, on the ground of prejudice; and, without the assistance of
counsel, boldly manoeuvred her case nearly as carefully and judiciously
as the most proficient of criminal lawyers.

Ascertaining that Lyon's counsel had secured damaging evidence against
her in those sections of country where she had previously been the
spiritualistic harlot