A story of an experiment in the Occult, in which some ladies who began by being idly interested in psychical research, find themselves in dangerous contact with the material necessities of mediums. Much light is cast upon that strange population of charlatans who grow fat on the credulity of the foolish in London. LOTTERIES OF CIRCUMSTANCE By R. C. LYNEGROVE. This story is laid in Germany, and describes the matrimonial adventures of two sisters belonging to the impoverished German aristocracy. The elder, gentle and unselfish, marries into the vulgar domineering family of Gubbenmeyer. The other, flirtatious and attractive, saves herself and her family from penury by securing a rich officer, only to jeopardize everything through her undisciplined and sensuous temperament. +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Notes: | | | | Words surrounded by _ are italicized. | | | | Obvious punctuation errors repaired. | | | | Printer's errors repaired, including: | | - Page 128, "interestng" corrected to be "interesting" (really | | interesting detail) | | - Page 129, "advertisments" corrected to be "advertisements" | | (advertisements had not) | | - Page 217, "necesarily" corrected to be "necessarily" (did not | | necessarily) | | - Page 219, "relasped" corrected to be "relapsed" (relapsed | | into silence) | | - Page 227, "if" corrected to be "it" (take it for) | | - Page 233, "ideals" corrected to be "ideas" (ideas seem | | original) | | - Page 295, "premisses" corrected to be "premises" (own | | premises) | | - Page 296, "what "what" corrected to be "what" ("what we've | | heard) | | - Page 302, "consspiratoriably" corrected to be | | "conspiratoriably" (knitting conspiratoriably) | | | | Other variable spellings within the text retained, including: | | - The same word with and without apostrophe, for example: | | "Golder's Green" and "Golders Green" | | - The same word with and without accent, for example: | | "régime" and "regime" |