Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-10-22

profession so. But what can / DOR
Your professioni What is your
professionf" exclaimed, thrown quite
out Of my customary reserve In ask
ing personal questions.
thought she looked at me in a
queer way, and / saw she hesitated to
answer. was on the point of
apologIzlng for my Inqulsitiveness
when she startled me by replying. "Pm
clairvoyant."
was thrown of my reserve still
more and couldn't help echolng. "a
clairvOyantw in actual establishment,
she was so different from what I'd
have expected to find under the name.
She added quickly, II saw you didn't
approve of-didn't believe in the oc-
cult the day we talked about your ring
and I've been at pains not to-not
TO bore you with talking shop, there
are so many other interesting things
that We have In common"
] didn't want her to feel uncomfort-
able and laughed to reassure her. "Oh,
I'm not 'sot ag'ln ito tell you the
truth, / don't know a blessed thing
about 1t, except what one picks up In
the papers, and of course"
She fairly took the words out of my
mouth that ! was at the moment try
Ing to keep in-"Of course one gets
prejudiced and locks on that sort of
thing as-all fraud" There were both
n fxrff nj In hn
though she knew she'd caught me in
the act, and then she added: Its part
ly what | went over for--tO look up
some new mediums with view to hav-
ing them come to New York and give
seances."
And from this she went on and de-
scribed some of the phenomena she'd
actually seen with her own eyes. For
instance, n little peasant boy in the
south of France-where. she left me to
guess and fancied she didn't like TO
trust me with the secret-Jacques Lee
rolls, 'whose phenomena were more
wonderful than Eurapia Palladinos"
He was a physical manifestation me-
dium. He twas greater at ten years
of age than Slade."
Still even jacques Lerolls wasn't so
wonderful as young girl in Paris
she brought stones covered with drip
ping seaweeds out of the bottom of
the ocean. and she had once brought a
live bird into II locked room during a
seance and had put it--after IT had
iuttered all about and everybody saw
it--into a closed cage-"dematerIal-
lied II twice In one evening" said Mrs.
Delario. This girl had only just be-
gun to develop naturalization as one
of her phases.
l confess 1t struck me as Mrs. Della
rio talked and told me how she'd been
trying to make arrangements for one
of these persons TO come over with her
that she was getting up new turns in
her own shows much as vaudeville
manager hunts up new performers for
his. She asked me to visit her In New
York, not professionally but as n
friend. and still. If were interested
and would undertake some investiga-
lions, she'd be glad to help me. and
| couldn't refrain from saying, THAT
is, you'll put me next to some first
class spooks?"
think this rather hurt her, for she
answered little tartly, "You may not
be interested now--but you will be-
The occult is coming into your life and
you can't prevent It, You'll get mani
festations that wilI-at least that may
drive you almost insane II you're
not prepared for them and don't know
| how to handle the forces that are
already at work about you" And with
| that parting shot-that. of course. any.
body might fire into you I'm self-defense
or just to be little nasty--she went
away to Claire. And I'm going to con-
! fess right here that in spite of my
skepticism | felt creepy.
| also felt clearer IN my own mind
on many little things I'd noticed about
| Claire: her coming TO my stateroom
that time; her constant hanging about
| me. even when she must have seen II
was inconvenient for me TO have her
! and the way she seemed so much of
the latter part of the voyage to be
trying to keep away from Mrs. Della
rio, staying by herself In her state
room. Had there been manifestations
| occurring In the Stateroom? Or had
Mrs. Delsrio been telling Claire things
till she got the child so nervous the
doctor was really serious over her?
Nfr- prfa
night and Claire left the table after
the soup, and as | was busy packing
l saw neither of them until morning
when all was hustle and excitement
for we'd passed the Statue of I.lbprt,
and were Steaming up the bay anC
would be on dry land almost before WI
knew II. And then we were hangins
over the rail and looking down at the
friends OF the passengers on the dock
and | heard Claire. In an agonizeC
voice; Mamma isn't meeting mel''
Claire began TO cry. not boisterousl,
hut in dreadfully pathetic. lost-chilt
way. into very beautiful French EN-
hroidered handkerchief, and all tn,
customs inspectors gathered about her
and she asked them each in turn il
he'd seen mamma and described nam
ma, and he shook his head and tole
> her he'd help her look for mamma IN .
minute as soon as he got the baggag,
Inspected; aud Mrs Delario and go
our suitcases opened and made Clair,
open her bags and her trunk and W,
lmplored the inspectors to look at on
: meager belongings in a hurry and m,