The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-06-26

right to crave a beautiful woman-ex
cept that he couldn't help it-built Ut
before my minds eye very charming
personality.
I talked the matter over with Hack
EFT, and we agreed that Miss Vaughn
was undoubtedly worthy of substantial
assistance, If it could be rendered with
out offense. Her situation was Ger.
tainly most lamentable and involved
no fault of her own. Having heard OF
this case, we could hardly pass by
on the other side" as Hackett ex.
pressed it. The fact is that my part
ner had been playing the role OF the
good Samaritan in many towns that we
had visited, and mostly to the unde-
serving, am afraid.
We decided that I should call upon
Miss Vaughn, and so asked Burnham
to secure her permission; but he told
me very promptly that he did not care
to undertake the errand.
"I couldn't lie to her." said he. "She'd
have to know the object of your visi'
here, and then she wouldn't see you"
incidentally / learned during this
conversation that Miss Vaughn was ar
intellectual prodigy, having been the
youngest girl ever graduated from
Smith college. Indeed, she would prob
ably not have been admitted to that
institution if her age had been correct
" stated, but her aunt had misrepre
sented the matter to the authorities
Her record had been exemplary, both
for scholarship and conduct.
"She might teach" said Burnham
"but really don't see how she's going
to live till we can find her position"
After leaving Burnham's room went
at once alone to the Eustis residence
which must have been considered quite
a grand house in its day. A Respondent
old woman answered my ring and ad
mitted me into chilling, gloomy at
mosphere and eventually into small
room at the rear of the hall. 1t hao
the look of neglect, as if it had not beer
used in some weeks. Ny eye was at
tracted by a small table unlike the
other furniture and awkwardly placed
near a window. 1t was Uttered with
loose sheets of writing paper, which
were dusty, and some Of them were
covered with scrawls in pencil as If 9
child had played with them.
thought that knew why this table
was there. Clearly Miss Vaughn's psy
chic messages were written with pen
Gil. was displeased. This scrawline
hand looked like the usual counterfeit
And yet would have given my bond
upon the honesty of the face in the
photograph Well, we may all be de
ceived by a face. began to regret
having sought an interview with Miss
Vaughn, and my mind was DETECTED
from her to the unknown man whom
DR.. Whiting had mentioned. A strong
inward conviction that that man wal
the true psychic, worth a .thousane
Dorothy XAughns to.thescause of SCI
Ence,aarnse to- prnminenee inkmy con
seriousness, and was striving to thint
of some means by which l could learr
his name when very pleasant voict
spoke my own. ''aassUr.~ssssssss~b sassa-..
turned and saw a slight, girlish flg
ure, all in black. There was the puz
cling, childish womanly face that the
picture had shown, the perfectly oper
innocence quantity combined with Sc
rene wisdom such as l might imagine
in an angel. Yet this serenity was
wholly intellectual. / could see thai
the poor girls body was racked witt
nervousness and apprehension. Lone
illness in this old, decaying house, from
which she could see no way out into
the brighter world, had told upon her
cannot remember that my sympathy
ever went out so suddenly and sc
strongly toward any other human be
ing.
She had seen that was looking curl
ously at the table, and l observed that