the two younger
Fox sisters in the courageous attitude which they had taken.

The deadliest hatred is always to be feared, by those who abandon a faith
or a system, from those who still adhere to it.

Think you, if Mahomet had turned about, forty years after the Hegira, and
had boldly anathematized the religion he had established, he might not
have been reviled and persecuted, even by those in whom he had first
inculcated his bastard faith?

Who can doubt this who knows human nature?

Even the lies of an impostor rebel against him, when, with a repentant
word, he would damn them again to all eternity.

Mrs. Jencken had ample reason to fear that the disclosures which had been
made by her and her sister would redouble the hostile zeal of those who
before had persecuted her. In the first account which had been published
of her return to this country, it was not stated that her two boys had
accompanied her. In fact, however, they had.

The pressure brought to bear to induce her to retract her denunciation of
Spiritualism, and the ground of her fear for the safety of her children,
are well set forth in the following, which appeared on October 11th,
1888:

FEARING THEIR ENEMIES.

THE JENCKEN BOYS WERE HERE, BUT ARE SENT AWAY.

There are signs of gathering thunder all around the spiritualistic
sky.

A leading spiritualist, a lawyer, who had read the _Herald's_ recent
articles on the subject, demanded of Mrs. Katy Fox Jencken,
immediately upon her arrival in New York on Tuesday, that she refuse
to support her sister Maggie in her expose of mediumistic fraud, and,
to use his own words, that she "throw herself upon the sympathy of
the spiritualists."

This proposition she emphatically rejected and declared that she had
done forever with Spiritualism and spiritualists. She firmly believes
that leading men and women among the latter, particularly her eldest
sister Leah, are her secret persecutors, and that it was due to their
animus that she was arrested last spring and deprived of her two
boys, to whom she is immeasurably devoted.

There is much to sustain this charge, and the inference that this
mysterious persecution, of which, as she alleges, the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children was only the instrument, was
inspired by the fear that she and Mrs. Kane, having long been
exploited for the financ