Edgar Jepson

Name: Mrs. Morrel's Last Séance
Author: Edgar Jepson

Mrs. Morrel's Last Séance

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“Mrs. Morrel's Last Séance”, is a work by Edgar Jepson. It explores elements such as Longridge, trickery and Morrel.

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Edgar Jepson, Mrs. Morrel's Last Séance

“ I have always seen the best phenomena when the circle has been composed of three men and two women.
Last of all came two strangers, who, I gathered, had never sat with Mrs. Morrel, or with anyone else—a Mr. and Mrs. Longridge. Longridge was a man of about forty-five, of a short, square, stout figure, clean-shaven, with a heavy, masterful jaw, thin lips, and keen black eyes, deep-set under projecting brows. He looked a man of uncommon force of character; and I hoped that Mrs. Morrel would keep off trickery, for he was the very man, if he detected it, to make a row. ”

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Edgar Jepson, Mrs. Morrel's Last Séance

“ Sometimes, of course, she was not in the right mood or condition, or whatever it is; and the phenomena were trivial; sometimes we got mere trickery, and that poorly done. Like most other mediums, public or even private, if real phenomena did not come, Mrs. Morrel would do her best to produce imitations. Sometimes she would quite deliberately use trickery rather than endure the exhaustion and nausea which always followed the genuine exercise of her powers.
But often at her séances I had seen phenomena which I did not believe to have been produced by trickery. ”

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Edgar Jepson, Mrs. Morrel's Last Séance

“ Then I saw that the curtain was half-drawn, a thing which had never happened at one of Mrs. Morrel’s séances before, and I could see dimly the figure of Mrs. Morrel on her chair in the cabinet.
The child came straight to Mrs. Longridge. Mrs. Longridge sank back in her chair, gasping painfully, and her nerveless hand would have slipped from mine had I not held it firmly.
The child stood before her, and said in a faint, shrill voice: “Oh, Mummy!”
Mrs. Longridge burst out sobbing, tried vainly to tear her hand from mine, and cried wildly: “Oh, Maisie! Maisie!” ”

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Edgar Jepson, Mrs. Morrel's Last Séance

“ Also, I could find no one of the name of Longridge among our captains of industry. I was forced to the conclusion that, like so many other people, they had come to the séance under false names. So many people are ashamed of their interest in spiritism. ”

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Edgar Jepson, Mrs. Morrel's Last Séance

“ I said. “But if the door was opened, why didn’t the light from the hall lamp fall into the room? It was burning brightly.”
“Oh, it was turned down, and then up again,” he said confidently.
“It might have been,” said I; and for the next twenty yards he said nothing.
Then he broke out:
“It was a splendid fake—splendid! I never saw a better! What accomplices! It was first-rate acting—absolutely first-rate!”
“Yes; acting that turned the lady’s hands icy.And accomplices? An accomplice of Mrs. Morrel’s in a two-thousand-pound sable cloak! That is a bit hard to swallow,” I said. ”

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Edgar Jepson, Mrs. Morrel's Last Séance

“ Morrel’s séances. She went by the name of Sister Sylvia. She talked to one and another of us. There was very little more to her talk than to that of Thomas. Mrs. Longridge was panting softly, and holding my hand tighter; Longridge, too, had tightened his grip, and was leaning forward.
There was a breath of cold air (a very common phenomenon at séances) , then Sister Sylvia said: “There’s a little girl here. She wants——”
I heard Mrs. Longridge gasp, and without finishing her sentence, Sister Sylvia went back into the cabinet with quite unusual swiftness. ”

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Edgar Jepson, Mrs. Morrel's Last Séance

“ Indeed, the dress suited her very well, for she was a dark, almost swarthy, black-haired, biggish woman, and stout, weighing over eleven stone. Her rather heavy face lighted up and grew quite animated at my compliments. ”

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Edgar Jepson, Mrs. Morrel's Last Séance

“ Morrel welcomed them with great deference, and Mrs. Longridge came into the room wearing a cloak of sables over her black evening gown. All the members of the circle, except Professor Walters, are rich people, but not to the point of being able to pay two thousand pounds for a sable cloak. ”

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