Arizona republican., 1905-05-21


 a party" said Vango, with unction.
 "Ill tell you everything, if you'll only promise to hely me. I am innocent of But I tried to kill man tonight; it was in self-defense, though.
 She took the lantern and setting the light on the seat, pointed silently to the body. Look at him." she said.
 After a heroic conflict with his re- pugnance the medium rolled the corpse over until it lay face up. The dead man was a Chinaman. He could see that by his clothes nd hanr. though his face was half masked with cIot- ted blood. Two shocking gashes in the forehead turned Vango sick with horror. He looked up at the woman with tears in his eyes and tsked:
 Who WIS the deceased ?'
 'He was my husband" she said, and her sobs choked her. "We must get him ashore and put him in the house. and then we can decide what next, and perhaps you can help me. There's our pier over there" and she pointed cut the light on a little wharf running out from the gloom. She took the wheel again and the launch was docked at the pier.
 
 to help her with the corpse, the quad room woman quickly stopped him. Here" she said pointing to a large wooden case in the bow, this must go ashore first. Take it into the shed there and watch out you're not seen. It won't do for the police to see it, or any of the neighbors. I'd rather they saw the body
 She stopped and united a coil of rope from the case, and then the two lifted it to the floating stage. It weighed something over a hundred pounds, and it was all they could do to carr it to- gether up the steep incline and along the pier to the shed. The woman took a key from her pocket and unlock ed the door. When the case was inside the room, which was scantily fur nished with a few chairs and tables, they returned to the launch.
 As they approached the stage Vango thought of the woman's request for a seance and her words struck him as curious. He asked her carelessly what it was that she wished to find.
 "A scrap of red paper with Chinese writing upon it." was the reply. She had no more than uttered the words when. glancing at the launch, Vango saw on the floor in the rays of the ian tern a red spot. Looking more closely he saw it was undoubtedly the very paper the woman wanted. He turned suddenly and faced her to prevent her seeing it and seized her hand. Then he sighed heavily, passing his free hand over his eyes.
 'I feel a vibration of a self inde- pendant message from my control" he said. and fetched a dramatic shud- der. "They is a kind of a pain in my head as though a party had passed out of a stab like"
 "Oh, what is it; what is it?" the quadroon woman cried. piteously
 The mediums cupidity won, and the creduious woman in the flesh was more potent than her sister in the spirit. He shut his eyes and went desperately on:
 She gives me this message: What yon're lookin' for will be found sooner than what you expect and you'll come by it on the water. Youll be guided to it by party who is a good friend to you, and you can trust, and she gives me the letter " He's a dark com plected man with a beard, and therell be money a-comin' to him through your help"
 Having trembIed again and sighed himself back to life, the medium turned to her drOwsily, as if he had just been called from bed. "Oh, what was I sayin'? I must have gone into a trance"
 The quadroon was in a high tremor of suspense. What is your name? You never told me?' she demanded.
 My name?" he repeated with a baby stare. ''Vango, Professor Vango. Why"
 Then, you're the man." she cried. Come. Help me take the body ashore, for we must get him to Chinatown as quickly as the Lord will let us"
 He waited until she had jumped into the boat and had laid her hand to the corpse, and then he snatched for the paper and waved it in the air
 Did you say it was a scrap of red paper you lost?"
 She sprang at him and looked close ly. This is the very piece I wanted. Wong Yet is one of theml" she cried. avenged. God bless you, professor. You have proved your part of the mes sage is true, and I reckon I'll prove mine. Find the other half of this riece of paper for me, and you can do it easy with your spirit guides, and I'll give you $1,OOO for it."
 They stopped over the dead China man, and with Professor Vaugo at the shoulders and the quadroon at the knees, the corpse was carried up the landing stage and along the pier to the shed. Here was hitched a pitifulIy dirty white horse, harnesed to a dis reputable covered laundry wagon, spattered with adobe mud. Into this equipage they loaded the remains. piled the case in the rear and but toned down the curtains. Then the woman mounted, with Vango on the seat, and drove for the Potrero.
 As they turned ito the San Bruno road the quadroon began her prom ised confession. She could not proceed calmly, but was swept with alternate passions of sorrow and rage. The me- dium however unmOVed by her Suf-