The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-11-07


that she was so like her Lila, girl
Of thirteen IN boarding school; and
from Lila she went on to Eugene, who
couldn't meet her Of the steamer. un-
fortunately. because she'd come back
two weeks early and he was In the
West.
He seemed very near her heart, and
after talking og him for half an hour
she either warmed to 1t or let slip by
accident, | couldn't tell which, the
words, Its the grief of my llfe--and
Of his, poor boy-that he detests my
profession so. But what can dor
Your professlonl What Is your
professlon7'' / 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. 1 was on the point of
apologizing for my inquisitiyeness
when she startled me by replying, I'm
a clairvoyant."
/ was thrown Off my reserve still
more and couldn't help echoing "A
clairyoyant !" 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-dldn'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 10 reassure her, ooh,
I'm not 'sot agin ito tell you the
truth, don't know blessed thing
about It, 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
preiudlced and looks on that sort OF
thing as-all fraud" There were both
anger and a twinkle In her eye, as
though she knew she'd caught me in
the act, and then she added Its part.
~ what / went over for--to look UP
some new mediums with q 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, little peasant boy in the
south of France--where, she left me to
guess, and / fancied she didn't like ia
trust me with the secret-Jacques lie,
rolls, "whose phenomena were more
wonderful than Eurapia Palladlnos.'
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 a young girl in Paris
she brought stones covered with drip
ping seaweeds out of the bottom OF
the ocean, and she had once brought O
live bird into a locked room during q
seance and had put it--after It had
fluttered all about and everybody saw
it--into a closed cage ematerlal.
tied II twice In one evening" said Mrs
Delario. This girl had only just be.
gun to develop naturalization as one
Of her phases.
/ confess II struck me as Mrs. Della.
rio talked and told me how shed.been
trying 10 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 a vaudeville
manager hunts up new performers for
/ his. She asked me to visit her In New
York, not professionally but as a
friend, and still, II were interested
and would undertake some investiga.
tons, she'd be glad to help me. and
| couldn't refrain from saying, "That
| Is, you'n put me next to some first.
class spooks?
l think this rather hurt her. for she
answered little tartly You may NOT
be interested now--but you viii be
The occult is coming into your life and
you can't prevent it. You'll get maui.
festations that wilI--at least that may
drive you almost insane If 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 In 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 stateroon
that time: her constant hanging about
me, even when she must have seen Il
was inconyenient for me to have her
and the way she seemed so much o.
the latter part Of the voyage to b,
trying to keep away from Mrs. Della
rio, staying by herself in her state
room. Had there been manifestation
occurring in the stateroom? Or hat
Mrs. Delario been telling Claire hing