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He says : ` Slowly we have learned to understand the phenomena , but we can not control them , and the child is still cruelly embarrassed by intrusive tappings and cracklings as she visits her friends or as she sits in her seat in school . She has become afraid to sleep alone , and calls piteously for a light whenever the noises begin . ' '' `` The poor child -- '' `` You may well say that , '' replied Britt . `` She has told me that her time of greatest trial comes just after the family have had their evening meal , and while she is seated at her book ; but Randall grows eloquent in his description of what took place : ` Almost every night at seven o'clock the obscure powers begin their uncanny and invisible riot , ending by seizing upon the child as if to destroy her , compelling her in the end to sleep . Then her voice , her limbs , seem at the disposal of some invisible intelligence . ' You see , the old man is weakening . He says no more of hysteria , and nothing about taking the girl away . ''