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RV 157 why shouldn't I leave you to see Kitty alone? Perhaps we needn't both"

His look of relief was unconcealable; but her bright resolution rose above the shock. "You'll do it so much better," she encouraged him.

"Oh, I don't know. But perhaps two of us looks rather like the Third Degree, doesn't it?"

She assented nervously: "All I want is to smooth things over"

He gave an acquiescent nod, and followed her as she moved toward the door. "Perhaps, though—look here, Pauline—"

She sparkled with responsiveness.

"Hadn't you better wait before sending for Lita? It may not be necessary, if—"

Her first impulse was to agree; but she thought of the Inspirational Healer. "You can trust me to behave with tact, dear; but I'm sure it will help Lita to talk things out, and perhaps I shall know better than Kitty how to get at her Lita and I have always been good friends, and there's a wonderful new man I want to persuade her to see some one really psychic"

Manford's lips narrowed in a smile; again she had a confused sense of new deserts widening between them. Why had he again become suddenly sardonic and remote? She had no time to consider, for the new gospel of frustrations was surging to her lips.

"Not a teacher; he repudiates all doctrines, and simply acts on you.

He—"