Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-09-04

washed. than rich and clean by forcs.
There. 1 admit all that What do you
think OF the political prospects?"
Il think" said Tommy. solemuly.
that the election depends on Celestia.
II she can reach enough peo-
pie before she breaks down from
overwork she viii elect her pres
ident and her congress. I've seen
this over and over. We send
our best men 10 a place. they make
good impression, show the people the
fallacies in Celestia's gospel OF pros
perity and happiness. and then. hav-
ing laid a good foundation of sanity
and honesty, along comes Celestia and
sweeps the place of its feet, and in
twenty minutes undoes the work Of
a dozen good men"
But people don't really swallow her
assertion that she was sent from heav-
en- for the especial purpose Of running
a political campaign?"
Many swallow IT, She does herself.
you know. And hers is no political
campaign. it's revolution.
If her faith in herself could be
shattered?"
How could it? The best detectives
in the world have been working on her
origin No clue leads anywhere. II
she doesn't come from heaven, where
does she come from?"
She comes said Mary, out of the
heart of a gigantic conspiracy"
She is no conspirator.
"UnconsciOusly only. Tommy. where
the detectives have failed. haven't l.
know all about Celestia-who she
was, where she went 10, where she
comes from, and where she's going!"
"Going?' exclaimed Tommy, in such
voice that a pang Of jealousy shot
through Miss Blackstone's heart
Many ignorant people" said she.
actually believe that Celestia is di-
vine and descended from heaven. AS
her beauty fades and her voice loses
its power, if, in some way she should
show herself human-marry- a
child-the belief of these people would
turn into disbelief But, if having
seated the new government firmly.
she should vanish in the heyday of
her beauty, innocence and poWer-van-
ish as mysteriously as she appeared
more than half the nation viii end by
believing that she was truly the Daugh-
ter Of God. Believe me, Tommy, the
powers that produced her at the right
time aren't going to let her grow old
and wrinkled. She Will go back 20
heaven. And a nation Will believe
that the government she gave it was
derived from God and must be right.
DO you mean they would murder
her?"
"As calmly as you would murder a
mosquito"
This is frightful!" exclaimed Tom
my. jumping to his feet.
Il haven't told you who she is"
True. You haven't"
He sat down again.
"Profesor Stlliter." said Mary. "so-
lected her as a perfect specimen Of
childhood. She was kidnapped and
brought up ia a great underground
system of caverns somewhere in the
Adirondacks"
But she would remember"
NO other child has ever been
brought up as she was From the mo
ment they kidnapped her she was kept
in a state Of hypnosis. She was taught
By hypnotic suggestion. The caves in
which she was brought up seemed vast
&c her as space itself Bright angels
appeared to come and so. Through the
caves is the only access 20 a certain
mountain top. There she could eXer.
else ia the fresh air unseen by any
one Her physical life was just as real
as yours or mine; her mental life was
nothing but dreams, haIIucinations and
imaginings. Stilliter was her teach
er, and enc other man."
What MANI" asked Tommy.
His name doesn't matter Just be
fore it was time to bring her to earth,
he-wen. they caught him trying to
make her kiss him, and ever since
then he's been-dead.
Her memory tells her of no physi-
cal ills or wants, only OF a wonderful
inefable discmbodied serene state OF
happiness and holiness. There was
a voice-to which all bowed down IN
/ worship. That voice told her at last
that she must descend to earth and
Z do as she-has done"