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indispositions. She was intelligent, very well educated, and, as a teacher, gave every satisfaction to the directors. A few weeks after her arrival at the establishment strange rumours about her began to be spread among the pupils. It was a common occurrence for one girl to see her in one part of the house, and for another to report having met her at that same moment somewhere else; and when the same thing happened over and over again the pupils spoke of the matter to the other mistresses. The professors, on hearing the story, pooh-poohed the whole thing, declaring it to be contrary to common sense. But matters came presently to a head. One day when Emile Sagee was giving a lesson to thirteen of her pupils—one of whom was Mile de Güldenstubbe—and, in order to make her meaning clearer, was writing out the debated passage on the blackboard, the girls saw, to their intense alarm, two Mile Sagles, standing side by side. They were alike in every particular, and made identical gestures. The Mile Sagee who held the chalk wrote with it on the board, the other merely imitated the movements she made in writing. All the thirteen girls had seen the two figures and agreed absolutely in describing them. A few days later, when Mile Sagee, standing behind her, was helping with the toilet of one of the pupils, Mile Antoinette de Wrangel, the girl, glancing into the looking-glass, saw the reflection of two Mile Sagees and was so frightened that she fainted. For some months the phenomena continued; Mile Sagee being once seen, by all the pupils and the maids waiting at table, with the double standing up behind her, repeating her movements as she ate her food. On another occasion, in a room on the ground floor with four large windows commanding a view of the garden, the