at he
hardly knew me. Oh! how I have hated the thought that used to come to
me sometimes, in spite of myself, that it was not really he. But that
must have been the true intuition. It is better that the delusion is
past, after all, for had I kept on in that way, I am sure I should
have gone mad. The constant seeking, the frequent pretended response,
its unsatisfying meaning, the sense of distance and change between me
and my loved one--oh! it has been horrible, horrible!

"He who is dying of thirst and has the sweet cup ever snatched from
his lips, just as the first drop touches them--he alone can know what
in actual things is the similitude of this spiritualistic torture.

"God bless you, for I think that you now speak the truth. You have my
forgiveness at least, and I believe that thousands of others will
forgive you, for the atonement made in season wipes out much of the
stain of the early sin.

"Yours sincerely,
"ANNA SUZANNE."

To these letters and to hundreds of others which Mrs. Kane and her sister
Mrs. Jencken have received, this volume is their response.

But besides this, they have appeared in public on the platform, as an
earnest of their present sincerity, and will probably continue so to
appear in various parts of this country and Europe.

On the 21st of October, 1888, Mrs. Margaret Fox Kane first fulfilled her
intention of publicly denouncing, with her own lips, Spiritualism and its
attendant trickery. She appeared at the Academy of Music in New York
before a large and distinguished audience, and without reservation
demonstrated the falsity of all that she had done in the past in the guise
of spiritualistic "mediumship."

The ordeal was a severe one. The great nervous strain under which she had
labored rendered her mind highly excitable, and the large number of
spiritualists in the house tried to create a disturbance, or a traitorous
diversion which would break the force of her renunciation. In this they
utterly failed, however, thanks to the superior character of a majority of
her auditors.

The moral effect of the exposure could not have been greater.

Mrs. Kane stood before the footlights trembling with intense feeling, and
made the following most solemn abjuration of Spiritualism, while Mrs.
Catharine Fox Jencken sat in a neighboring box and gave assent by her
presence to all that she said:

"That I have been ch