Mies Waterman, whom the Judge implicitly believed and who was the only .utsider permitted to enter Bryn Merra, .'tated that in the summer of 1890 Mr • \lorley complained his money, was " going by thousands," that he was " a miserable • (nan," and that unless he did all the Loughnans wanted they "made his life ■■ miserable." These complaints were re newed a few weeks before his death. He said the Loughnans had " taken it all," .hat he had "never given them leave," and that he was "so unhappy j they were • not kind to him." Whether it was hypnotism or simply religious ascendancy which determined Mr Morley 's submission to his " good .hepherd Loughnan," seems doubtful.. The Court decided in favour of the latter,, but it was certainly strange that when ever the poor creature temporality shook off his " old man of the sea," he became a different and a wholesomer being. The religious monomania o£ men like Mr Morley is at any rate of much the same value to mon like Mr Loughnan as the hypnotic susceptibility of his subject is to the mesmerist. Only the abuse of the former for the purposes of illicit gain is moro odious than that of tbe latter by the addition of what the Telegraph happily calls " its garnish of blasphemous hypocrisy." "The human race," says a critic of good Mr Loughnan, " can hardly produce a more hateful figure than that of the intriguer who trades on the fanatical and superstitious beliefs of hia fellow men, and makes his gain out of the febrile emotions and vague aspirations which spiritual ideas are capable of exciting in their minds. There is a combination ofthe sordid and the impious in hiß manoeuvres which makes them revolting alike to the religious instincts and the moral sense. No form of iniquity can be more detestable to any right-thinking man, and there is certainly none which deserves sterner re pression at the hands of the law." "Can one combine all; this with Christ ?" aßked good Mr Loughman when he first surveyed the luxury of the late Mr Samuel Morley's country house. Ap parently he answered tbe query with an affirmative. At any rate the worthy man at once commenced lay ing plans for annexing as muoh as possible of the good things of this world. 