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 conversed with their departed relations, through his assistance.

Amongst those who related such strange things of Volkert, was a woman, whose husband had died suddenly some months ago, and entreated her, before he expired, not to give her daughter in marriage to a certain tradesman who had courted her. The girl doated on the young man, and he likewise was exceeding fond of her; the distress this young couple felt, at that sad and cruel prohibition, cannot be expressed by words; their grief was unspeakable when they were thus unexpectedly removed for ever from the happiness of being united by the bonds of holy wedlock, just when they flattered themselves to have reached the aim of their fondest wishes.

Volkert was quartered in the same street, where the unhappy girl's mother lived. She requested him to find out, by means of his supernatural skill, what reason might have in-