The Undiscovered Country. William Dean Howells

me." The doctor waived away the sense of this with a gesture which was still stately, but no longer severe. "I only speak from my interest in you and Miss Egeria, here. I think it's wearing on her,— wearing on you both."

      "Has my daughter complained to you?" demanded Boynton, with more than his former hauteur, looking round at her. She returned his look with a glance of tender reproach, and Hatch answered—

      "No more than you, doctor. I'm talking of what I see. And I think you've made a wrong start. I think you've made a mistake. You oughtn't to have ever mixed yourself up with professional mediums. You were on the right track at home. Now, I say, you just go back there, and you form a disinterested circle,—people that haven't got money in it,—and you go on with your investigations there; and when you've got a sure thing of it, you come out with it. But don't you do it till then! Heh?"