Mrs. Jencken was asked about the alleged spirit manifestations which have taken place in Carlyle's old home at Chelsea, London, where she has lately resided. The English papers have been filled with stories, more or less sceptical, regarding these queer occurrences. Mrs. Jencken said: "All that took place there of that nature is utterly false. I haven't the slightest idea that the noises which we heard in the house had any connection with Carlyle's spirit. I certainly know that every so-called manifestation produced through me in London or anywhere else was a fraud. Many a time have I wept because when I was young and innocent I was brought into such a life. The time has now come for Maggie and I to set ourselves right before the world. Nobody knows at what moment either of us might be taken away. We ought not to leave this base fabric of deceit behind us unexposed." As may be seen, nothing could be stronger than the language employed in these interviews by both of the repentant sisters, in denouncing their former adhesion to a system of humbug and hypocrisy. CHAPTER IV. THE HAND OF THE PERSECUTOR The public had every reason to feel a deep sympathy with 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 exposé of mediumistic fraud, and, to use his own words, that she "throw herself upon the sympathy of the spiritualists."