CONTENTS

BOOK I
CHAPTER PAGE
I.[The Setting]1
II.[The Maid on the Mountain-Side]4
III.[The Man]11
IV.[A Second Meeting]15
V.[Pupil and Master]23
VI.[In the Marshall Basin]42
VII.[The Forces of Light and Darkness]59
VIII.[Dr. Britt Explains]68
IX.[Anthony Clarke, Evangel]83
X.[Clarke's Wooing]94
BOOK II
I.[The Modernists]103
II.[News of Viola]112
III.[Britt Comes To Dine]132
IV.[The Patron of Psychics]146
V.[Kate Visits Viola]164
VI.[Serviss Listens Shrewdly]188
VII.[The Sleeping Sibyl]201
VIII.[Kate's Interrogation]213
IX.[Viola's Plea for Help]224
X.[Morton Sends a Telegram]245
XI.[Dr. Britt Pays His Dinner-Call]251
XII.[Viola in Dinner-Dress]262
XIII.[The Test Séance]283
XIV.[Puzzled Philosophers]307
XV.[Viola Revolts From Clarke]328
XVI.[The House of Discord]337
XVII.[When Doctors Disagree]353
XVIII.[Lambert Intervenes]370
XIX.[Serviss Assumes Control]386
XX.[The Mother's Faith]399
XXI.[Clarke Shadows the Feast]413
XXII.[The Spiritual Rescue]429


ILLUSTRATIONS

"SHE CAME SLOWLY, WITH ONE SLIM HAND ON THE RAILING"[Frontispiece]
"THERE WAS IN HIS LOOK AN EXPRESSION OF ACKNOWLEDGED KINSHIP"[Facing p. 6]
"SERVISS LISTENED WITH GROWING AMAZEMENT"[Facing p. 36]
"VIOLA, TOO, CAME BACK TO BEWITCH HIM FROM HIS READING"[Facing p. 108]
"'WHAT DO YOU MEAN? DO YOU WANT TO KILL THE PSYCHIC?'"[Facing p. 212]
"'BUT, TELL ME, HOW DID THE CHANGE COME? WHAT BEGAN TO HAPPEN?'"[Facing p. 276]
"THE GIRL'S EYES WERE OPENING AS FROM NATURAL SLUMBER"[Facing p. 308]
"'YOU NEED NOT SPEAK—JUST PUT YOUR HAND IN MINE AND I WILL UNDERSTAND'"[Facing p. 436]