ge that I
am a perjured liar, and have forfeited the name of gentleman?

Pratt-Haldane was most amiable, and listened with all politeness to my
story. But when I looked at his heavy set features, his slow eyes, and
the ponderous study furniture which surrounded him, I could hardly tell
him what I had come to say. It was all so substantial, so material.
And, besides, what would I myself have said a short month ago if one of
my colleagues had come to me with a story of demonic possession?
Perhaps. I should have been less patient than he was. As it was, he
took notes of my statement, asked me how much tea I drank, how many
hours I slept, whether I had been overworking much, had I had sudden
pains in the head, evil dreams, singing in the ears, flashes before the
eyes--all questions which pointed to his belief that brain congestion
was at the bottom of my trouble. Finally he dismissed me with a great
many platitudes about open-air exercise, and avoidance of nervous
excitement. His prescription, which was for chloral and bromide, I
rolled up and threw into the gutter.

No, I can look for no help from any human being. If I consult any
more, they may put their heads together and I may find myself in an
asylum. I can but grip my courage with both hands, and pray that an
honest man may not be abandoned.

April 10. It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So
green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature
without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror! It has been an
uneventful day, but I know that I am on the edge of an abyss. I know
it, and yet I go on with the routine of my life. The one bright spot
is that Agatha is happy and well and out of all danger. If this
creature had a hand on each of us, what might she not do?

April 16. The woman is ingenious in her torments. She knows how fond
I am of my work, and how highly my lectures are thought of. So it is
from that point that she now attacks me. It will end, I can see, in my
losing my professorship, but I will fight to the finish. She shall not
drive me out of it without a struggle.

I was not conscious of any change during my lecture this morning save
that for a minute or two I had a dizziness and swimminess which rapidly
passed away. On the contrary, I congratulated myself upon having made
my subject (the functions of the red corpuscles) both interesting and
clear. I was surprised, therefore, when a student came int