She--the hard peasant woman no longer young, who had been for years the confidential servant of Mme.

Dauvray, and no doubt had taken her levy from the impostors who preyed upon her credulous mistress--certainly she would hate this young and pretty outcast whom she has to wait upon, whose hair she has to dress.

Vauquier--she would hate her.

But if by any chance she were in the plot--and the lie seemed to show she was--then the seances showed me new possibilities.

For Helene used to help Mlle.Celie.Suppose that the seance had taken place, that this sceptical visitor with the red hair professed herself dissatisfied with Vauquier's method of testing the medium, had suggested another way, Mlle.