"What happened?" she asked, looking at Elaine.
Elaine reported the spirit's words.
"We can get nothing if your Aunt stays here," Savetsky added,
insisting that Aunt Josephine must go. "Your father cannot speak
while she is present."
Aunt Josephine, annoyed by what she had heard, indignantly refused
to go and was deaf to all Elaine's pleadings.
"I think it will be all right," finally acquiesced Bennett, seeing
how bent Elaine was on securing the message. "I'll stay and
protect her."
Aunt Josephine finally agreed. "Very well, then," she protested,
marching out of the room in a high state of indignation.
She had scarcely left the house, however, when she began to
suspect that all was not as it ought to be. In fact, the idea had
no sooner occurred to her than she decided to call on Kennedy and
she ordered the chauffeur to take her as quickly as possible to
the laboratory.
. . . . . . . .
Kennedy had not been in the laboratory all the day, after my
experience with the acid and I was impatiently awaiting his
arrival. At last there came a knock at the door and I opened it
hurriedly. There was a messenger boy who handed me a note. I tore
it open. It was from Kennedy and read, "I shall probably be away
for two or three days. Call up Elaine and tell her to beware of a
certain Madame Savetsky.
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