Omaha daily bee., 1914-06-02

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What have YOU with her to do"
BY this time had found a card I'm
a friend of the Tabors," I said and
their trouble is no secret from me. You've
been looking for a continual Irritating
cause Of Mrs. Tabor's hysteris. Well
I've found one"
Clever" he shriiled "diaboltcallv
clever. But it will not do, young man
have known these your American re-
porters-"
III you say that again" burst out,
you'll have me for a patient. Can the
Tabors on the phone-any OF them will tell
you I'm in their confidence; and can
identify myself We're both Of us wasting
time"
The sculptured face scowled at me, for
an instant then relaxed with a piercing
caekle of mirth. Good. l waste time no
more, then. but l believe you See" he
spread out the telegram. 1T is to her
20. Now, il you come with me
Mrs. Tabor has just started home from
New York in the motor" said l. Our
train leaves in half an hour. Are YOU
ready?'
Or. Paulus did not say another word
until we we're safely aboard the train
and out OF the tunnel Then he turned
suddenly upon me.
Have I not seen you at q so-called
spiritualistic seanee." he chirped
YES l said. where we both heard a
mysterious voice called familiarly by the
name OF Mrs. Tabor's elder daughter
What is more, I have Just seen Mrs.
Tabor herself in another sesnce, where
she talked with this so-called spirit in
timately. She has been doing so. un-
known to her family. for long time, and
there is your irritating cause. That's
why she has Authorizations Of her daugh-
ter's presence"
Or. Paulus received my revelation with
somewhat humiliating calm. He showed
not tho least astonishment. nor did he
answer for some minutes but sat frown-
ing in front of him. and drumming with
large white hand upon the window
sill. When he spoke again. It was with a
smile
Mr.. Crosby, I find myself-yes-in-
terested somewhat in you. First I see
you at spirituahsn: then before a house
where another seanoe is shout to be;
net pass you in the subway, and few
minutes thereafter I presently behold you
riding a child's bicycle after my
brougham TO discover me-Now also,
recall to have seen you in the country.
when I was with the young medical man
who sends this impetuous telegram
Therefore say, since you are not a re-
porter. YOU have a mind either unbal-
snced or very we'll balanced. And you
now bring me eagerly this information. so
that you are with the Tsbors much in
terested which may prove-you are no re-
Istion, is 1t not so?" He laid his hand
upon my knee 1T is not your mind,
then, but a heart unbalanced. which pro-
duees often great mental activity"
Twas both embarrassed and ,imps tient.
Am J right then, about Mrs. Tabor"
asked. Isn't there a chance of 8 per-
rnanent cure for her by removing her
from this spiritualisIn business? II we
can only"
He held up his hand, Let us not leap
to the conclusion. That Ia what I tell
always to the DR.. Reid. He Is a bright
young man. but he leaps too much TO
the conclusion. So probably he has said
to YOU that Mrs. Tabor is a paranoiac,
which may he so; or perhaps with con-
tinual irritation of the mind, only hys-
terra that may be aided by removal OF
the irritation. ! am too old to be quickly
sure Now. I repeat to Reid that a medi-
cal man must save his mental or physical
jumps for cases Of extremity. He must
not jump all the time; that is how you
are neurasthenic in America Hysteria
that we can by removing suggestions
and introspections palliate, or perhaps
cure And there may be also hallucina-
tions and the fixed idea. Therefore it ia
so like a shadow OF insanity. The
daughters death, we know of that. And
I have said that some continual sugges-
ton was to be sought for which might
produce this illusion of her daughters
continual presence. such as you have per-
haps found So We are ready TO consider
Tell me now all that you know, carefully.
Not your own deductions I want, but
the facts alone"
When l had finished, he sat silent for
a long time, trowning on his hand as II
drummed idly on the window-ledge.
why do you conclude that she has
for some time been attending spiritual
isms unknown TO her family?" he asked
abruptly at last.
They all seemed TO know her, and to
recognize the voice called Miriam. She
WNNt dDouA u btsbtS III NNig d''hS-
toned way. And before her first dissp-
pesrance this summer-the first / knew
OF personally-she had a telephone mes
sage from Mrs. Mahl ] answered il, and
recognized her voice afterward."
After another long silence I ventured:
Hasn't she always been worse after she
has been awsy?"
He answered in a preoccupied tone, as
II had merely tapped the current of his
own thought: 1T seemed at first TO me
temporary breakdown only. which
looked to grow better. I have been much
disappointed that il has not. and she
grows periodically worse coincidently with
disappeArsnces OF which they do not
know in time TO control them So l tell
them that some harmful practice is added
TO the original cause, and they assure me
that no new things comes into her life,
unless" he looked at me quizzicaiy-
"a young man whose interest in the re-
naming daughter causes him TO follow
scientists about on bicycles. ] recon-
mend quiet and the removal of Temin-
iscenoes and still the irritation goes on.
Now, as to splrituslism, there l have
not made up my mind I investigate II
as a human abnormality. for TO me. like
the Roman. nothing human Is TO be
thought foreign. II looks to be trickery.
and yet that is not sure. but there may