The Washington herald., 1919-01-21
Confessions of
A War Bride
Chapter 1Ze.
| Confess the Ouija Trick and
Am DisbeEeyed.
Oh npter 1Z9,

/ must have slumped morally un-
der the temptations of 1918. / ad-
mitted, else why had l been so quick
to beg Eloise to conceal the ouija
trick from Chrys? l blushed TO
think OF IL for / had been reared
to take truthfulness for granted,
as one takes the air one breathes.
But lately | had been learning how
one conccalment compels another.
Ever since ! had promised DR.. Ger
tets not to reveal my adventure in
the U-boat. had added layer upon
layer to my stock of petty deceits
until l had builded up an appalling
structure. And it had all been done
in the name of secret service and
for the good of the State. according
to Certeis.
could not dismantle the pile, but
| realized that Chrys must be told
all about the ouija farce. She
wouldn't like it-she would prefer
to hang on to the wonderful mys-
terry of the thing-and Eloise and
would go through a bad hour.
Coming in from a long meditation
in the open air the Sunday after the
New Year. 1 hunted up Chrys. She
was in the library, surrounded by
piles of encyclopedias AMI histories
of Spain.
"Chrys, dear" l said. "1f you're
going to be here a little while, I'll
get Eloise to come down. We want
to tell you something"
Jane. Stay out of her room"
Chrys commanded. "Eloise has the
iu-she's quarantined-and delir-
irous-"
z%As- I lE q .
about the flu-even il all of my pa
tients had died. I wanted to nurse
Eloise, but Mother Lorimer had sue
ceeded in getting back our old nurse,
Mrs: Chaplin.
And now, my love, please keep out
of this wing of the house" Mother
said as she kissed me and sent me
away.
Then ! returned to Chrys and told
her all about the ouija fake. Chrys
couldn't be convinced at all! She
wasn't even angry! She just seemed
to pity Eloise and me!
Cant you understand, Jane, that
Eloise never, never could have pushed
the ouija pointer around as fast as
1t flew the other day unless she had
been in the power Of the control %
I've tried myself to spell out words
on the board as fast as you do in a
seance" acknowledged. but 1 can't
manage it."
mo novice can-and no skeptic"-
Chrys' voice was positve-'1'n ad-
nit that Eloise has a good story, in
fact I verified the part about the
queens in this history, but insist
that the control only used Eloise as
a medium
"Oh. la! la! should think that her
confession upsets your whole the
ory." I objected.
"On the contrary. I think the queen
of Spain never could have come in
touch with US except through Eloise
Spirits have great difficulty in estab-
fishing connection with this world,
Remember what you know about
electricity-it has existed forever. but
we had to develop proper instruments
before We could talk by phone. And
wireless instruments must be. tuned
to each other. So in psychical COM
munications. some very sensitive con-
nections are often required. The
control the other night was new to
me. Evidently Eloise established the
only line through which she could
communicate. See?'
Far be it from me to argue with
a fanatic. For sheer obstinacy give
me mystic. said to myself. At
any rate, had owned up"
Then 1t came to me with a shock
that Bob and Chrys are twins with
similar characteristics. Once Bob
is possessed of an idea, heaven, earth
and war in Europe cannot shake
him loose from 1t. He would have
to emancipate himself, in his own
time and way, whether his obsession
were love-or jealousy.
go be continued)
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