New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 8, 1922, Page 14

Sdwin Balmer 3 Little, heown and. Compazy ~ ~ (Continued From Our Last Issue) *“My Mother!" to himself, “Mother!" Yet now he had to know speculation, was just within beyond the door; so dropped back to her and turned m‘\ her in an appeal which she could not refuse. “She is my mother?" “Your mother, sir,”" the house- keeper said “It she calls you in her sleep, sir—or awake vs Dick, she means you, Sir. ~you un- derstand 2" o rstand,’”” Barney “You mean she has been me “When she 81d not know it, she asked for you, ‘Dick, my baby; my boy—Dick,’ she said this morning. That was why 1 brought you." Barney's eyes dimmed “How long has she been {11?" “Since the injury, sir, when ship was torpedooed.” ok ai JAf she Dick whispered asking for un the to France find vou “To find Th me?” Barney repeated “Yes, sir. You see, Mr. Dick, she'd just got track of you at last All vour life, for twenty-three years, she'd heen searching for you: and then—" Mrs. Wain stopped Late in the evening Barney to Scott street and presented himself at the house which was his mother's and asked for Mrs. Wain. “Nothing more has happened, Mrs ‘Wain,” Barney gaid to her at once to quiet the alarm which his appeara at that hour had aroused. *'Sh he hesitated and then did not name his mother, but repeated—‘she was gaining strength when I left. ot course. 1 understand much more than I did this morning; but of cours I want to know everything—every- thing you can tell me.” “It's always been beteween her and him,” the housekeeper iterated inco herently, “between her and him—" “Her and—God?" Barney asked, bewildered. “God?" the housekeeper and laughed. “The Devil himself; Mr. Luc Cullen, Senior! Don't you see? She's fought him since she was a child, a little girl, sir, and he downed her; he disgraced her and—and she lost you! Then she came here and beat him—beat him— beat him and his family; all of them: she beat them all But she couldn't find you and she couldn't- the housekeeper stopped sten!' she appealed again, steadying herself “She found you last fall, I told you; then that happened! And they thought she was dead; so she them think she was dead, to beat them—beat them so they could never down her again. But he did it. He came here the other day; that day Ethel Carew left—remember?" “I remember,"” Barney id. “He thinks he's safe now beaten you hoth. But beaten her. He thinks he he thinks she is dead But going to get well and fight him for you and for her. So she'll send for you soon; she'll tell you what should; trust ehr and wait!" went repeated on earth he's not has; for she's she At half-past seven on that same | morning, Lucas Cullen, Senior, was at| breakfast when his eyes struck an ftem headed, ''Open Draw Claims An- other Victim.” It was under that open draw head- ing; and the paragraphs, when care- fully read, related how a new coupe, very recklessly driven, had dashed up the approach of the Rush street bridge and the driver, disregarding the danger signals, hurled his car through the barrier and into the river. The bhodies were recovered; and there followed very fair descrip- tions of Miss Platt’s husband and the girl who had been frequently seen with Kincheloe. CHAPTER XVII The English medium, Mrs. Rrand, came to Chicago, tting'' in private homes of several of the most promi- nent people of the city and demon- strating evidences of communication to the full satisfaction of the increas- ing groups of devotees, and daily co vincing the skeptical of the reality of her powers to reach the world be- yond She established, therefore, most ideal conditions for the trial Lucas’ plan to demonstrate the fact of Agnes Cullen's presence in the realm of the dead. Shortly after Lucas Cullen, Senior, had communicated to his family his decision to attend the ‘sitting” of Mrs. Brand at Mrs. Stanton-Fiell's, Berney received by special messenger one of those cards which admitted the holder to Mrs. Stanton-Iielding's drawing room between 4:30 and 5:30. With the card came a note enjoin- ing him to be present early, to occupy an inconspicuous position and par- ticularly to avoid recognition by the Cullens but to closely observe them. “You shall hear all—all,” she had promised him, when she last clasped him, “all in its proper time, my son. It I told you now, I would spend too much—too much of what I've kept within me for twenty years.” And he understood that she did not mean solely her strength. “But it is almost time!" Today Barney read in those lines of his mother's handwriting that oc- currences at last favored her; she had sufficient strength to play her part and the time—her time and his and Lucas Cullen's—had come. of “] explain for the benefit of those who otherwise may find confusion,” said Mrs. Brand when the seance opened, “that when in the trance I appear to be generally subject to a ‘control’ who styles himself Doctor Keppel, whose personality employs my material body for expression."” Thereupon servants drew the win- L — .. -te .te PALACE STARTING SUNDAY NORMA TALMADGE HARRISON FORD in “LOVE'S REDEMPTION” { let | He saw that Mrs, Wain | he |} I Adow blinds «nd turned on the lights Barney's lips formed |in the ceiling Some profound transformation in flugnced Mrs, Brand's posture and her manner of utterance; and, when lips next moved, her speech in- dicated the control of a markedly robust, abrupt and masculine seem- ing personality: “What a cloud of witnesses present! So many come here meet you!" “I would like communication are to to learn whether can be obtained," said a smooth, perfectly assured, feminine voice; and Barney saw, not by any motion of her own but by the attention of those seated ahout her, that Mrs. Lucas Cullen, Junior, was speaking, “from Mrs. Oliver Cullen— Agnes Cullen—who was lost last September on the Gallantic and pre- sumably is dead.” Barney's sinews seemed of them- selves to draw taut. This demand plainly was part of the Cullen plan £ “MY MOTHER!" BARNEY'S LIPS FORMED TO HIMSELF. “MOTH- BRI which his mother was there to coun- ter; or rather ,it had been part of Lucas Cullen’s scheme. | “All the while a spirit has been be- | side you; a man; a fine-looking man.: middle-aged, with dark hair and| brows. He holds a hook in his hand. | It is the Book of Mormon." Evidently the Voice was replying to Mrs. Lucas Cullen, Junior. Others in the room took this as answer to her; she so understood it; beyond any doubt, Lucas Cullen at her right thus | received it | “He is showing Doctor Xeppel an; open space outdoors about it is a big woods. He has cleared away the trees | in the space, Here is a woman there; very young; he is young too; v strong. It is more than years ago; more than that, he| says. It is in Michigan, he says. The young woman has a child; a little girl, he says. He Kkisses both of them. You are there; you come b; vou are young, too; tall and very strong. You walk into the shack. | He is showing the inside now; it is| very plain; no furniture; just a bunk of boards; a table; a bench of boards. On the table is a book; the Book of Mormon; you pick it up; you drop it down and kick it; vou kick it out| the door. Something happens. Doc- tor Keppel gets wondering what; it is confussed; he cannot see. He feels passion; strong anger; hate. Many men some—"" The ‘‘yo! described by the Voice no longer was Mrs. Lucas Cullen, | Junior. Clearly it was old Lucasj Cullen, himself If any one had doubt, a glance at old Lucas was quite sufficient to find it confessed; he sat, attempting to appear unmoved, indifferent. The Voice, which had halted, spoke on. “Another stands near you. Now h eshows a space with trees about; VEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, SEFTEMBER 8, 1922. For Infants and Children InUse For Over 30 Years Always bears M-‘ great trees, a forest; men cut some of the trees where is a stream of water and a mill. Doctor Keppel feels a vibrating and buzzing; it s a lumber mill, Over the door is a sign; Doc- tor Keppel can read it all now H LAYLOR. H. Laylor, it says, He nods; yes; that is it. It looks like long ago; everything new there; but many years ago . Now there is a mist It must be smoke; yes; he says it is smoke. Now Doctor Kep- pel feels like heat; flames; and much heat; roaring; great flames; a forest fire approaching the mill; he dooe not try to get away; not till to late—" The Voice—full, emphatic, reson- ant—dominated the silent, darkened room, The Volce, which had all but materialized the presence of the de- parted loved ones to many others, was endowing—with all but materi- ality—phantoms of the past for Lucas Cullen, “He knows,” sald the Volce, knows that all your life you won- dered how much he suffered. When he came over long ago, he thought to try to punish; before he died, he swore to; but over here, he did not. He tried to help, instead, the ones who lived to suffer.” Bennet for a while had attempted | indifference; but now he abandoned |it, and, reaching across his mother, he seized his grandfather's arm. | “You're sick,”” he said. ‘“Come | out with me."” “It's queer, he the Voice, “how wondered about suffered and didn't other at all; the other who send the torch.” “Come!"” Bennet commanded, most loudly Barney arose stepped down the line of chairs “You're going to sttay this cut!" “he continued all your life you him—how long he think about the didn't thinks," al- and Phoenix Silk Hose for Women Good things are usually hard to get— there’s a bigger demand than supply. That’s the way it’s been with Phoenix Hose. we've just got in a big supply of this world- famous hose in black and brown full fashion- ed silks. No. 398 Full Fashioned Silk.......... $2.55 No. 368 Full Fashioned Silk........ 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