I cannot even explain my predicament to another." "You must try," he insisted firmly, affected by her evident distress.

"I must be told everything if I am to be of any value.

A half way confidence can accomplish nothing." "But it sounds so foolish; I am being haunted! I know that, yet that is all I do know." "Haunted, in what way ?" "I do not even know that; but by a woman, I think--a woman who must strangely resemble me.

She pretends to be me--to my friends, to my servants, at my bank.

I never see the creature, but I hear of her from others.