CONTENTS
MR. MEDHURST AND THE PRINCESS.
MISS JÉROMETTE AND THE CLERGYMAN.
MR. MARMADUKE AND THE MINISTER.
The course of this narrative describes the return of a disembodied spirit to earth, and leads the reader on new and strange ground.
Not in the obscurity of midnight, but in the searching light of day, did the supernatural influence assert itself. Neither revealed by a vision, nor announced by a voice, it reached mortal knowledge through the sense which is least easily self-deceived: the sense that feels.
The record of this event will of necessity produce conflicting impressions. It will raise, in some minds, the doubt w