She half turned toward the
cabinet and made an undecided movement in that direction, and then, as if
the invisible cord that drew her thither had broken, she wavered,
stopped, and seemed to drift toward the opposite corner of the room.
At that moment there was a gasp from the cabinet.
Dr. Hull leaped to his feet and sprang toward it, at the same time, by a
turn of the stopcock by his side, setting the gas in both rooms at full
blaze.
Alta, with a loud scream, rushed after him, and Miss Ludington and Paul
followed them.
The pupils of their eyes had been dilated to the utmost in order to
follow the movements of the apparition in the nearly complete darkness,
and the first effect of the sudden blaze of gaslight was to dazzle them
so completely that they had actually to grope their way to the cabinet.
The scene in the little apartment of the medium was a heartrending one.
Mrs. Legrand's body and lower limbs lay on the sofa, which was the only
article of furniture, and Dr. Hull was in the act of lifting her head
from the floor to which it had fallen.
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