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Clytie Payson had come home after a two weeks' stay at Lonely with Mrs. / Maxwell, poised, resolute, calm. She seemed sustained by some inward / faith manifesting itself only in a higher degree of self-consciousness, / as of one inspired by a purpose.
At breakfast, on the morning after the materializing seance, Mr. Payson / read the morning journal interestedly, so intensely absorbed in its / columns that he scarcely spoke to his daughter. But he did not mention / the evening's event, and was moody and morose. The affair had received / an extensive notice. Madam Spoll, it seemed, still lingered at the / point of death. Although Mr. Payson's name was not mentioned, he was / much disturbed and apprehensive of publicity. Clytie, noticing his / abstraction, did not disturb him with questions.