The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-05-17

Ilne. L cOulu uOt tell Inem why.
Thence resulted all my conduct I had
some little foolish reputation for mys-
terious powers, and I played upon it.
That day in the restaurant while the
search for Henry was being discussed
I saw in the paper report of the YES
sci that had carried Vinal. I guessed
that he must be almost at that very
hour in my brothers house. and of
course I knew what he would do there
''That was harmless and pardona
BILE fraud, Mr.. Harrington" he con-
tinued, compared to the one which
practiced upon you. l had the excuse
of shielding the name of good woman
whose conduct might be msunder-
stood. But with you it was sheer self
interest and reckless impulse. was
desperate with my circumstances. You
would take me as a psychic. and you
wouldn't take me any other way. Let
me rush over this. When | pretended
to feel Dr. Whiting behind ne. |
heard his voice in the hall. and when
l turned around after playing my trick
and didn't see him | thought that
was lost. But fate saved me.
LAS for my knowledge of what was
in your mind Mr.. Harrington. the ex-
pertinent in hcredity, l was informed
by Wh:t:::g.''
But rover told him." cried.
Donaldson smiled sadly.
How simple these things are" he
said. "Certainly you never told him,
but you loaned him your diary that he
might study the records of your tests,
and in turning it over he came upon
your notes about the possibility of
mating two psychics. Look out for a
psychic girl he wrote in the letter in
which he warned me of your visit. i
think they've got one and will try to
make match Dear little Dorothy!
To think that | never suspected her Of
being the wonder worker! But many
a time since then have felt her power
| guiding me, for she still has it, though
| she will not say So Indeed, | cannot
| believe that our son lacks some inner
| itance of this mysterious force from
| his mother
ooh, deacon, how deliciOust" eX-
! claimed Dorothy, who had stood like Il
| statue, with clasped hands, during all
| this recital. "HaVc yOu really believed
| in me? But why not: | have always
| believed in you. and my on.y doubt of
| Don was based upon the knowledge
| that l myself was the thinnest of vain
| decisions. Donald, dearest, l never
dared to tell you.
Dear old Uncle john, uncle in gener-
| al to all of us and best of Dencfactors,
can you ever forgive me? l can't tell
| you all; l can't speak i'll of my aunt,
J and indeed she was driven to it; but
: when | first began to help her with
those mysteries / thought her most
| wonderful psychic AID that the only
! deception was in making the revela-
| tons through me. Why. she had cor
| respondents all over the country. | Gid
| not know it till after her death. There
! was Il perfect network of fraud. These
| people wrote to each other. They gath
| cred the complete family history of ev-
| cry investigator anG-and crank. You'd
be amazed at the things that my aunt
! kneW-thin@S that were all done in an
| orderly record among her papers.
81 did not know this till after her
death, and of course | had no suspi-
cion that she was taking money for
her exhibitions, that she lived upon
them 1t was among her letters that
found your name and Mr.. Jackets
and the fact that YOU were trying to
find Mr.. Donald Donaldson, whose
name YOU had not yet learned. That
letter came after my aunt's death
l. "And | was desperate. Mr.. Harring
ton. | did not know which way tC
turn When you mentioned a teachers
work to me. | was insane with feal
| that YOU would not choose me- and So
| and so played that awful trick
| The tears were streaming down the
dear face that have loved so tenderl!
for so many years She is the child OF
my soul. | took her into my arms ant
! kissed her upon the brow.
"The facts seem to be-" said Donald
, son. looking very queer, that your
experiment in hcrcdity has succeeded
, beyond the widest dreams. You have
| brought together two persons having
| peculiar and wretched gift of decep
| tion though one of them is the mos
honest, open hearted woman in tn
? world and the other a man who ha
/ done no great harm. Each of them, il
a crisis which seemed all important
2 yielded to certain emptation-th
= ! very same in each instance. To then
r was born a son who was brought t
0 face a similar situation with a result
Y that must be called inevitable. But a
\ heart" he added the boy is pure golG
: as his mother is, and l am proud o
n him.
t He looked around defiantly, as
e there had been some one to deny tn
justice of his claim.
r Hes the finest boy that ever lived,
e said l. And then, with an old man
8 persistence in long cherished opinion
,. "And, moreover, there's a tremendOu
n lot in this matter that none of 70