The Ordway new era., 1920-01-23

her own chfdren 10 me snying that
one reason wig she'd been willing to
late the responsibility OF Claire was
I thaf she was so Ike her Lila. girl
, of thirteen g a boarding school and
I from Lila Size went On 70 E1gene, WHO
! Couldn't meet her a. 'he steamer No
p, fortunately, because she'd come back
two weeks early and he was IN tie
west
He seemed very near her heart, and
( alter iaikin8 Of him for hdlf an hour
she eillier warmed 10 it or let slip by
accident. I Couldn't ten which, the
/ words, IFS ,he grief Of my Hre-and
| Of his poor boy-thnt he defegis ms
! profession 50. But what ran I dor
Your professionf What Is your
/ professlons'' 7 exciaimed. thrown quite
I out Of my customary feserve ID ask
Ing personal qiiestlons
I ] thought she looked at me- IN a
qneer way and saw she hesitated to
answer was on the point or
I npoiogizi1g for nay inqnisiuveness
/ when she Startled me By replying I'm
eiairvoyantr
+ wls thrown 0T my reserve still
( more and couldn't beip echoiaz "a
/ dairgoy1nt Ia actual ast0nishment.
she was So different ftom what I'd
/ have expected 70 6nd under the name
She added quickly. = saw you didn't
approve of-dfih't believe In the oc-
cult the day we talked abodt your ring
and Pve been at palms NOT to-not
! 70 bore you with tniliing shop, there
I are 80 many other Interesting things
that we have IN common
I didn't want her to feel uncon1fort-
4 able and laughed to reassure her, "oh.
| I'm not 'sot ag'in ito tell you the
| truth, I don't know a Blessed thing
about II. except what one picks up In
the papers, and " Course
1 she fairly took the words out Of my
! mouth that I was az the moment try
ing to keep lf-"Of course one gets
prejndfced. and looks on That sort Of
I fhfng as-arf fraud" There were both
anger and a twinkle in her eye. az
4 though she knew she'd caught me 10
! the act, and then she added ITS part-
4 IL what 7 went over for-to look up
4 some new mediums with view to hav-
Ing them come to New York ana give
seances"
4 And from ibis she went on md de-
scrlbed some Of the phenomena she'd
| actually seen With her own eyes. For
instance, a little peasant boy IN the
south OF F'rancc--where, she left me to
guess. md fancied she didn't ike to
trust me with tNe secret-Jacques Ee-
rolls, whose phenomena were more
wonderful than Enrapfa Paiindino'sr
He was a physical manifestation me.
dium. He was greater at ten years
Of age than siafe."
stu even Jacques Lerofis wasn't 50
wonderful as q young girl In Paris
she brought stones covered with drip
ping seaweeds out Of the bottom Of
the ocenn aud she had once brought n
live bird into q locked room during a
seance and had put li--after II had
futiered all about and everybody saw
it-into n closed "dematerial-
lied It twice IN one evening" said Mrs.
Delario This girl had only Just be-
gun to develop fnaieriallloti0n as one
Of her phases
confess Il struck me as Mrs. Deia-
rio talked and told me how she'd been
trying to make Arrangements Tor one
Of these persons to come over win her
uat she was getting up new turns In
her own shows fnucli as a vaudeville
manager hunts up new performers for
I his, She asked loe to visit her In New
York, not ptofessionally but as n
| friend, aud sttu, il I we're Interested
I and would un1eftnke some lnyestigd-
tons she'd be glad 10 help me. and
I couldn't refrain from saying, THAT
| ls, sou'H put me next to some FIRST
class sn1oksT'
I think this rnther hurt her. for she
answered a little taftly. You may not
be Interested now-but you WIN be.
/ The occult IS comlng into your life ana
/ sou can't pfeyeht IT, Y0dn get mani
/ festRtions That wfif-at feast that may
drive you almost insane II you're
/ not prepared for them md don't Know
/ how to handle the forces that are
| already at work about you." Aud with
lint portlhg shot-ttht, Of course, any
body might FIRE lnto you ID seif,defense
or Just to be q little nasty-ste went
sway 10 Claire And I'm going TO con
Tess right here Hut IN spite OF my
steptictsn / feit creepy.
also felt cicarer n my own mind
on tnnhy little things f'd noticed about
Claire; iet cotning to my stntetoom
thot time her constant hanging about
inc, even when she must iinye seen II
wns ipconYeniebt for me 10 have her I:
and The way she seemed SO much or
the latter part o. the voyage TO be
tying 70 keep away ttobi Mrs. bein-
rio, staying by herself IN her state
room, HAD there been manifestations
Occurring ii the staterooin7 Or bni
Mrs. Deiario been teiiihg clairc 'iiihgs