Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-25
Chapter TIT
ChapGer III
VIZ HETHER Or not the aloof-
wv ness which first surprised,
w then spurred on and final

| VIZ HETHER Or not the aloof
wv ness which first surprised,
w then spurred on and final
of little Nora an f2d0 5ed admirers
sehool days, was or was not hand
ed down by her father it Certainly
oIo not come as the gift of her
mother, who cajoled her first young
nv n1sp pane into marrying her against
his own fundamental distaste.
Paul Sanderson's familv had
washed their hands of him when he
took unto himself as wife the plump
ana an pretty girl who began her suit
counter.
With many men this method of
proceeding would have spelled disas-
ter Tor the girl alone, but for Paul
the love affair was his first-he was
bookwork, and only twenty-one. And
| 1t was also his last.
Marriage worked the sure cure of
ms sole emotional indulgence, mar
rage and poverty and responsible
trials without number, and utter in
ability to earn a living. Forum
ately, the need, for him, soon ended
A. gentleman at heart, he sought to
hide from his sobbing wife the look
ed that his short illness, a break
down caused by unaccustomed work
the end.
In the mysterious way that chill
supposed to know. Nora knew all
this And this, from the very first,
| seasoned with contempt her feeling
not only toward the young step
m Iatner she acquired a year after
MRS: Sanderson's widowhood, but in
/ love toward the mother herself
There was nothing in the easy go
Ing, coarse, fibered nature of Mrs
Sanderson,s second husband, Ed Du-
lany, to check the sentimental dem
wires happiness to indulge and to
| these frank exchanges of endear-
ments was to be traced, without
question, the sensitive shrinking
from masculine philandering which
characterized Nora in her teens.
Both kindly folks at heart, Meth
er the mother nor the second hus-
band would have willingly hurt the
child physically or temperamental-
iy. 1t was impossible for them to
which, she drew herself away from
their boisterous lovemaking.
Ed had begun life by running
away with a circus, and later trav-
eied with a side show as ventrilo-
rative field of hypotism and stage
magic at time when that sort Of
thing had novelty for the public. Ed
Dulany taught his wife, whom he
met through one of her old glove
mentals Of her psychic art, being
not at all .averse to taking things
a bit easy himself.
It's. perfectly good graft and
safe If you work 1t right" he said
Some moneys bound to be good, or
there wouldn't be any counterfeit.
And some spooks have done some
communicating that nobody can ex-
plain or there wouldn't be any fake
mediums. Yon don't have to prove
what you are. as long as the public
can't prove what you amt"
Ed Dul"ny was undoubtedly clev-
er. Before his marriage, he had even
taken course at an UNDERSTANDABLE
lied medical college.
Curiously, and perhaps naturally
enough, it was Nora who started her
own part In the manifestations" of
which she later became the most i'm
portant factor. The trumpet used
at her mothers senaces happened to
have pleased her child fancy and
became her chosen pIaything. Later
the initiative instinct led her to give
such perfect productions of the
demonstrations" she had witnessed
that participation was a natural
step highly enjoyed by all concerned.
After she came to realize, however
the shoddy tawdrynes osf the means
of livelihood accepted by her mother
and step-father, the contempt their
demonstrating affection had arous-
ed in her cold child's heart was
greatly intensified and in later years
became SO commingled that the very
thought of her early environment
flushed her cheeks with angry
shame.
ITO Re Continued)