CHAPTER XIV

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Necromancy in a Thunder-storm--How Tom Leslie and his Female Companions called upon Madame Elise Boutell, from Paris, in Prince Street--A New Way of Gambling for Precedence--Bell Crawford takes her Turn--A very improper Joining of Hands in the Outer Apartment--About Chances, Accidents and Little Things--The Change in Bell Crawford's Eyes--Eyes that have looked within--Two Pictures in the Old Dusseldorf Gallery--Joe Harris Undergoing the Ordeal--A Thunder-clap and a Shriek of Terror--What Tom Leslie saw in the Apartment of the Red Woman--A Mask removed, and one more Temptation 198

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