Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-07-13

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Tabor was leaning forward toward the
sound, her face tense and frightened.
ooh. anything please--it's quite
easy-Don't you begin to understand :"
"Oh, what do you. mean? Miriam!
Mrs. Mail, what 10 happenings?
The medium never stirred, nor
moved a muscle of her face, as the
snirit-yoice replied: "Just the same
thing that's happened right along, Mrs.
Tabor. Don't you see now? You were
always so sure that any voice could
do for you to recognize. You've laid
yourself open to It."
Mrs. Tabor looked for the first time
az one might who listens to the dead.
Her voice frightened me, 1t was SO
calm.
What do you mean7" she said mo.
notonously. saw Reid move as II to
part the curtain, glancing sharply at
Doctor Paulus as he did so; but the
older mans mouth was bloodless
line, and he shook his great head.
whispering: mot yet, Reid; not yet:
Listen" said the voice. Here's
what you call Miriam talking" It's
tone changed abruptly: Now here's
me. I'm doing it," The medium rose
quietly from her chair, and stepped out
into the room: "The whole things
i,1st-a trick" she said, shifting from
one voice to the other in alternate
phrases. "You believe in-ghosts-
and so gave you-what you believe"
She came around the table. DO you
understand now?"
Sheila was sobbing aloud, but none
of the others seemed to notice ner.
Mrs. Tabor sat for an instant as II
frozen, staring vacantly in front OF
her. Then as the medium approached
she shrank away suddenly with child
ish cry of fear. 1T isn't true!" she
cried. ut isn't true!" and she swung
imply forward upon the little table,
and lay STILL
Lady and Mr.. Tabor were beside
her in an instant, as we three sprang
forward into the room. Shella was on
her feet, muttering. You've killed ner'
We brute beasts" But q look from
Doctor Paulus silenced her, as ne
waved the rest Of US back and bent
over the unconscious woman, his broad
fingers pressed along the slender wrist.
For moment we watched his face IN
silence, as If it we're the very race OF
destiny. Then the canary gave sud
den shrill scream, and fluttered palpat-
ating into a corner of it's cage, beating
so violently against the wires that tiny
feathers fioated loosely out and down.
The medium whispered: "Oh, my
God!" and cringed sidelong, raising
her arms as il one struck at her. Ana
nv hair thrilled and my heart sickenea
and stopped, for even while she spoke
a voice came ont of the empty air
above our heads: voice like nothing
that had heard before. woman
voice thin and tremulous. with
fragile resonance in it, as though 1t
spoke into bell. :,
"ch. mother, mother" 1t walled.
..Whv don't YOU let me go and rest?"
CHAPTER XVI.
7 think Lady clutched at my arm.
but can not remember. Inc one
memory that remains to me OF tnat
moment is the face of Doctor Paulus
His color had turned from ivory TO
chalk. his mouth was drawn open IN
a snarling square and his eyes shrank
back hollowly, glancing into nothing
ness. For second he stood so, claw
ing in front of him with his hands.
living horror Then with an effort
that shook him from head to foot, the
strong soul of the man commanded
him. cts nothing" he whispered.
az understand it. Take hold OF your
selves" The hands dropped. and ne
bent again over Mrs. Tabor. The next
moment sheila had sprung out in front
of us. and was speaking to the voice
that we could not see.
miriam Reid she cried, in high
chanting cadence between song and
speech. .if It's Yourself that's here,
lie down to your rest again, an leave
us Go back to your place in purgatory,
darlin'. till the white angels come to
carry We higher in their own good
tine. in the name av God an Mary
in the name av the Blessed Saints, go
back! Go back to your home between
hell an Heaven. an come no more
among us here!'
Get some water. Reid SNAPPED Doc
tor Paulus. "Quiet that woman, some
of you"
But sheila had done before we
could move or speak to her. With her
last words, she flung her arms wide
apart, above her head, and brought
them inward and downward in some
strange formal gesture. Then as swift
ly ard certainly as if she had planned
it all from the beginning, she caught
a little bottle from her breast, and
srrinkled It's contents in the upturned
face of Mrs. Tabor. We caught hold
Of her i.-st as she was making the
sign of the cross. BIT she was per-
fcctiy quiet now, with nothing more
to say or do, and stood motionless like
the rest of us, breathing deep breaths
and watching.
The cool shock of the water did Its
work. Mrs. Tabor's eyelids auivered,
and she gasped family. Reid came
hurrying back with glass OF water,
and stood at the side or his superior,
looking foolishly disappointed as he
realized the anticipation of his GRAND
"Sbe comes out of it all right" Doc
tor Parlus muttered. mo harm. 1t Is
more the trance condition than an or
binary faint" He looked up at She1ia
with grim smile. Superstition IS
a enc thinp-sometimes under medi-