He thanked me, and said that as he was free that evening he would gladly accept my offer, so we parted. The evening arrived, and when I made my appearance on the boards I noticed my friend the doctor already in his box. His appearance put me in mind of the conversation we had had in the morning, and, do what I could, I was unable to get Maud out of my head all through the piece. I certainly _did_ long for her to be present, though I tried not to wish too strongly, lest I should bring on another magnetic trance. I glanced towards the box where I had last seen Maud. It was occupied by two gentlemen, and Maud was not there. As the piece proceeded, however, I forgot my caution, and an intense desire to see her again, which I could not restrain, came over me. Shortly afterwards, glancing casually towards the same box, which was just opposite the doctor's, _I perceived Maud, dressed as on the evening before_. I was horror-struck, for I knew now that I saw her spirit for certain, and that the body was nearly a hundred miles off. The two gentlemen in the box did not seem aware of her presence, while she looked neither to the right nor to the left, but seemed thoroughly absorbed in the piece. Her apparition there on that night was not of such long duration as on the evening of the tenth, probably because I was frightened at what I had done and wished her spirit back to its earthly tenement. When I looked again towards the box after a quarter-of-an-hour Maud was no longer there. At the conclusion of the play I undressed hurriedly, and sought my friend the doctor among the crowd, but I could not find him, so I strolled into a supper room hard by, just before returning home, and there at a table I saw my friend. "Hullo! doctor," said I, "so you have come to refresh yourself after the fatigue of seeing me act, eh?" "Why, you see," retorted he, merrily, "your capital acting has quite given me an appetite." After one or two complimentary speeches on his part, I took my seat by his side and gave my orders to a waiter. "Doctor," I said, after a pause, "I saw her again to-night." "Who?" "Why, Maud, to be sure." "Bah! I'll tell you what it is, young man, you want bleeding." Pulling out his lancet, he wanted to bleed me on the spot, but I refused to be bled. "Nonsense, doctor," said I; "I haven't any more blood than I know what to do with. I tell you I saw _her_ as distinctly as I see you now. She was in the box opposite yours where those two gentlemen were, but she did not seem to belong to them." "Well," said he, "I saw those two gentlemen in the box opposite mine, and I can take my oath there was no one else there." "Mark my word," said I, "when you return to ---- and call on that family, you will be informed that Maud has had another fit. This is the 15th. Mark the day and the hour, and if she has not, I will lose my right hand, or I will give you permission to bleed me."