Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-06
The Fourth Dimension
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each demonstration Mulrooney examined the
spot with his pocket lantern. The noise had
an irritated sound. as if the force that produced
1T was at odds with itself. Professor Foster
berg conducted the experiments along the ap-
proved lines, and he got results, even up to the
word Hazel. " and then he wanted to stop
but Murooney would not have it.
Not Your life he said This here
thing says its name is Hazel. Well Hazel
what, Show me- Go on with the performance
Maybe Hazel has got another name. Maybe
Hazel lives around this neighborhood some
where
Rap! Rap. Rap. most imperatively.
The three started.
:" There That means yes. don't it," said
Mulrooney ''Of course. Now get busy"
But it seemed if the communication had
been interrupted by something. or the tele-
pathC wires had become crossed in the blue
empyrean for when four more letters were
spelled out they did not seem to mean any
thing
II. l. y, E." said Mulrooney disgustedly.
What sort of a names that: Maybe She
Professor Fosterberg leaped up and over
turned his chair. Il Don't you see" he cried
IT. |, n, f! The first part of it Hazel
Together it is Hazeltine. That's Professor
Hazeltine."
''Suferin' cats" howed Mulrooney. An
me detective, Ask him where he IS. what 5
he dom is he dead. or what's wrong
RI slow degrees it was spelled out. Professor
- Hazetine was not dead He was some
where eSe.-not in the spirit world. in
heaven nor in-well he didn't seem to know
where he was: or. if he did he could not ex-
press it positively. for he had to be asked first
and then could answer only yes or no. He
seemed excited, and in a roaring bad temper
too.
When morning broke they had succeeded
in getting little more, save that Professor
Hazetine seemed to be in dire need of many
things. but principally to get out of somewhere
Mulroonev looked up as the sun cast its first
CLEANS across the roofs of the buildings. and
looked at his watch.
There's train for New York at six-thirty"
he said. 1T will get me there at noon. III
hunt up trance medium know, an get back
here by eight. Then maybe We'll find out
somethin.
MRS. WHIPPLE had returned from her
Iva sisters with portentous frown her
face and CLINT of impending explanations IN
her eye. She had had most satisfactory sit
ting from the Boston medium. who. after one
or two convulsive spasns, had got her " con-
troll. and had Immediately been put en- rapport
with all the scandals of the spirit plane. To
Mrs Whipple she bore message of wonderful
Importance. Mrs. Whippe to keep keen
and wary eye on her house: for a visit was i'm
pending from a tall. light woman who had
message for dark man. The medium was
little hay as to the proper name: but it un-
dOubtedlV began with an Ii. l ms was enough
for Mrs. Whippe. and she went home with
conviction glowing like live coal in her heart
The medium had also remarked that there
likely to be trouble following close on the visit
Mrs. Whipple had her own ideas on that point
1t NAV have been twelve o clock. when the
deans household upset. and such up
roar brewed that the attention of the entire
college attracted, Mrs. Whippe, with
stern mouth and set features. had fitted to
and fro. giving her orders as Napoleon may
have given his on the of the battle of Water
loo. The maids feeling the storm that how
cred about. hurried to and fro. Then the
lightning struck The elderly butler appeared
in Mrs. Whipple's sewing room. whittier she
had retreated and announced that a lady
waited in the drawing room,-a lady who would
not give her name. but had asked for the dean
most insistently With quickening pulse Mrs.
Whipple fastened down the stairs. Like
avengng Victory she swept into the drawing
room. and there found her worst fears realized
The lady was tall and slender. and had light
hair. She also young! Medium stock
went up twenty-five points at a bound.
- am Miss Hazel" began the visitor i'm
patiently.
WHAT she was about to say was not fin
w ished: for Mrs. Whipple. ffty-tive-
nearly-and agile a desert bred steed, bore
down her.
The butler. the gardener the dean, two
maids. and the negro who attended the furnace
in winter separated the women at the end of