poke of his deep remorse and misery. At first she only
answered that she was very glad to hear it, because it showed she had
succeeded in making her presence felt.

By degrees, however, a more womanly view of the subject seemed to come
to her. After all, he was the father of her child; the poor little
baby that had mercifully followed its mother into the Great Unseen.
She had loved him once, by her own showing. I made the most of this
point, and very slowly, very grudgingly, she gave me the promise I
asked for--_i.e._ that she would at least cease this revengeful
haunting, even if she could not yet feel more kindly towards the one
who had injured her so deeply.

Having extracted this promise I felt that no more could be done for the
time being, and Mrs Levret, who had been sitting in unwonted silence
during both interviews, then took her leave.

I have given this case and its treatment very much _in extenso_, not
only because it may be helpful to others dealing with erring and
revengeful spirits, but because on my return to London _every
important point in this true narrative was amply corroborated_.

It took some time and a good deal of tact before the case was complete.

First, I learned that Henry Halifax was by no means a _persona grata_ in
the house where I first met him, and that my young friends there had
only been allowed to ask him under some protest, and because the rest
of his family were to be present.

Asked _why_ this should be the case, their answers were naturally vague:
they only knew he was not very welcome.

Of course, I did not pursue the matter with these young people. They
told me, however, that he was very much changed of late, and seemed so
often moody, unhappy, and discontented.

"I am sure _we_ should be happy enough if we had such a luxurious home
and all that money," said one of them naively.

Now I happened to know rather intimately at that time another friend of
the Halifax family; a woman considerably older than the young girls
mentioned, and as she had some little knowledge of psychic possibilities
I determined to lay the whole story before her, trusting to her honour
to keep it to herself, and not to allow any prejudice against Henry
Halifax to arise in her mind should she know nothing of the
circumstances.

She had known the family from her childhood, and I knew, therefore,
would not be influenced by the word of an outsider under these
circumstances. But I discovered that th