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1t now and then. Goodbye"
paul" said Tom, holding his hand
with the firm grasp of friendship, I'VE are
your debtois. We can never pay tina,
debt. Someday, perhaps. you will re-
member that fact. Promise me, that II
occasion arises, you will remember It,"
e Paul shook his bead.
d at is good OF you both" he said, ITO gee
how"
4, Then the train rolled away and they
were gone.
Slbyl opened the parting present when
she reached home.
! 1t was pencil sketch of Paul's face
drawn by Bethiah. The face was idealiz.
ed. 1t was Paul as ne might be. PAM
filled with noble thoughts. Paul purified.
Every face may be thus idealized and pu
rified. My dear young lady, you thlHk
yourself beautiful as things are, You
would tie astonished at your own beauty
could You see your face when IL mas pass
; ed through tins process. :,
Yes" said Slbyl, ~ shall look at 1t
sometimes. 1t is with this expression on
his face that | shall remember Paul
EPILoGUE.
Six weeks after their wedding Tom and
Sibyl came home again. The period of
profound meditation and philosoph'o calm
which we call the honeymoon had not
saddened them, or made them discomfort
ed with their lot, or diminished their
hopefulness for the future. Quite the
contrary. They were profoundly sat
isfied with themselves and with their lot
and with the world in general. AS for
Paul'and the late events, which we have
rescued from oblivion, tn y had nearly
forgotten them. Paul was only one
more of the many impostors and pretend
ers who had fastened for space upon
Sibyl's father, different from the rest In
the fact that, oddly enough, he had not en-
| deavored to get any money for himself,
and that he WAS q comely and well man
nered youth, and that he had repented in
sackcoth aud covered his head with ashes
aud rent his garments and walled aloud
and done penuance and confessed his sins
before the assembled multitude. These
incidents in his career would naturally
he was passing out of Sibyl's mind in her
new welded life, and his portrait lies at
the bottom OF drawer full of letters, and
she never takes 1t out to look at 1t. Tom
| is enough you see to fill all her thoughts.
AS for Paul's teaching-that wonderful
philosophy which SO moved the heart of
Lady Aug 1sta-nothing OF it has yet been
| written down, and now l do not think any
will be written down. Nobody talks
about it, and the promised present OF the
Book of Wisdom, written by King Solo
mon and taken to Abyssinia by Prince
Menelek, has not yet arrived.
II do hope, Tom" SAID Sibyl-it was be-
fore her marriage THAT the house Is go
ing to be kept clear of the old spirit bust
ness. If Paul did nothing else, he cleared
the house of all that rubbish. My father
ceased for while, at least, to believe in
his old mediums. do hope that the e.
feet will be lasting. But | fear, Tom, /
fear. They have both been engaged too
long in their Research to abandon II alto
gether even after such blow as this"
But they Will not acknowledge it to be
blow" said Tom.
"No." Sibyl sighed. They never
will acknowledge any blow, hove yer hard
though they feel it all the Tune. One me
dunn after another arrives aud shows off
his little tricks, and gets applause aud
money. Then he is discredited. 1t is set
down to the hooking spirit and the lying
spirit. But he is discredited all the same
and has to 20 away. AS for Paul, you
heard what Lady Augusta said at the con
ference about mis- wonderful and apostolic
al teaching. Well, it Is already nearly
forgotten. He is dlscredited. and he is
gone He will soon be remembered only
rs one among many, though he was the
brightest and the Cleve:est OF them ali.
But the Cause is never abandoned-neyer
even considered in any danger. Why,
Tom, though hate the whole thing, | find
myself actually believing it sometimes,
just because, | suppose, have been in the
habit of hearing 1t always spoken of as a
true thing Of which there can be no
doubt"
You can make people believe any
thing" sand Tom, elf you keep speaking
of it as if it were established beyond any
doubt
Naturally, on their return home, Lady
Augusta gave a dinner party.
SibHl saw, without aetonishment yet
with sorrow, that there had been already d
return to he gods OF the old school-lhe
pre- Pauline period, so to speak. The
Rev. Benja min fudge waS guest; Mr..
Emanuel Chick was present; SIR. Amelius
Horton, Mr.. Atheistan kithurn, Mrs.
| Tracy Haniey ana her husband, with 9th
crs Of the Persuasion. II wAa a large din
nel par y, ana during the prt.od OF wait
! ing, Sihyl became aware that there was
another guest Of honor beside herself
I'VE are To have another intellectual
! feast this evening"" she heard the Kew.
! Benjamin Ridges lond voice proclaim.
80 mach L. certain. II Is Il .ady-tbey
! say from Russla-but We have not heard
her name. She asaitiNed aud is in the
| house already" That Well-knUwn and