The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-01

Neither explanation nor thanks ar
necessary, Miss Archer; it is enough 70
me to know that have been of servic,
to you"
But feel that owe you both, and
will not be satisfied until have at leas
made an effort to pay the debt
The eyes she turned upon Rush wer
filled with tears, and their usual Lean
take care of myself expression wa
gone.
81 believed Mr. O'Hara, or whateve
| his name may be, to be clever msn
whom men disliked because women like
him. That he seemed to be so thoroughly
posted in occult sciences interested me
am an idle girl, Mr.. Hurlstone; l have
10 outside interests to occupy my time
or mind; and when he talked to me o.
/ things | Knew nothing about l was fas
! cinated and wanted to know more. He
told me of wonderful Nine Fanny
who could tell strange truths while in 4;
trance, and he got my curiosity SO aroused
that l promised would go with him tc
! see her He didn't urge me, but he played
upon my curiosity and finally a day wa:
named. Mrs. Pryor was to chaperon US
! but just before we reached the medium
house she remembered something thai
I she had to attend to. and said that if VIC
would 60 on she would reioin us before
we had time to miss her | now believe
/ that she had no intention of reioining rs
! From the moment | crossed Nine
Fanny's threshold began to feel mcom.
Portable. l had never been in such q
place before, and it frightened me- Mr.
/ O'Hara was very reassuring, however
! He said it was n pretty hard looking
place, but that we should only be there 4
short time, and he thought l would be
repaid for my venture. The very look
7 OF Nine. Fanny was enough to disgust
| one before she spoke Il word, and when
her assumed trance commenced wished
myself anywhere but there. She began
by dealing in glittering genefalities, and
then she became personal, saying that
there was a man waiting TO marry
me- that we were much alike and very
5ympathetic--Bah! l cannot think of 1t
without shudder! Finally O'Hara came
across the room and took hold of my
hand and asked me if could any longer
doubt that he was the man whom fate
had selected for my husband. The room
was almost dark, but could see his cat
like eyes shining close to my face. l
screamed for help: you came, and was
jared" She sank shuddering among the
cushions "Imake no excuse for myself.
1 acted the part of a fool and was pun
ished for my folly, but tremble to think
what might have been the consequences
if you had not been there"
Rush told her how he had been search
ing for weeks for the murderer of Rose
Ellington, but that he never dreamed
that O'Hara and Costello were one and
the same, and he could not help reioic-
ing that the man was to be dealt with
according to his deserts. For taking a
young lady into vile den, however, he
could not be punished. Rush might have
horsewhipped him, but that would only
have led to public scandal. Rush re-
GREETED that Bessie should have had such
an experience, but he felt that it had not
been lost, as it would end her longing
for the occult. When they arrived al
Gramercy park Rush left her at her
door. To her father and mother she
made a full confession of what had hap.
pened, but, except Rush, no one else
knew of the adventure in East Fourth
street until some years later, when she
made clean breast of it to Archie.
After leaving Bessie Rush went down
to the Tombs, where he found johnson
and Martin with Costello. The latter
was committed to await trial, and Rush,
trimming over with the excitement OF
the day, hurried to tie office of The
Dawn, where he told the city editor OF
his success and sat down to write out his
story. He wrote steadily until he had
turned out enough copy to fill half page
of the paper, including, of course, a
quarter of column 'display head
which the city editor put over the story.
Tt was capital story. He rehearsed
the career of the popular actress, telling
how she disappeared from the public
gaze and remained unheard of until the
fact of her death became known. 1t was
said that she died in miserable tene-
ment in Newark, n. J. How she got
there no one knew, nor what caused hel
death. Some thought it was from NAL
practice; others, that she had taken heI
own life; others, again, that she had
been murdered.
Then Rush told the romantic story OF
the man now in jail accused of her
murder; how under an assumed name
he had lived double life, and at the
time of his arrest was the most popular
painter in New York city. with half the
young women of wealth and fashion
waiting to sit to him for their portraits.
Rush was wrought up to high pitch of
excitement, and his pen flew across the
paper. He threw in just the right
amount of light and shade. and made a
story that was copied far and wide.
Bessie Archer's connection with the af-
fair he, of course, never mentioned, mol
did he even hint that there was lady in
the murderer's company when he was
arrested. As it was, the article made a
profound sensation. If it had been
known that Tillinghast Archer's daugh-
ter was with Costello in Nine. Fanny's
den, society would have had still
choicer morsel to discuss.
When copy of the paper containing
this story reached the proprietor of The
Dawn, in London, the Duke of Bellefort
was breakfasting with him in his gor-
geous house in Park lane. "What dc
you think of that?' said Plummett,. hand