Cheyenne record., 1920-02-12

take the responsibility Of Claire was
that she was 70 like her Lila, q GIRL
Of thirteen in boarding school; and
from Lila she went ON to Eugene, who
couldn't meet her at 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 Of him for half an hour
she either warmed to It or let slip By
accident, ] couldn't tell which, the
words, "It's the grief Of my life-and
Of his. poor boy-that he -detests my
profession so. But what can l dot"
"Your professioni What is your
profession?" exclaimed. thrown quite
out Of my customary reserve in ask
Ing personal questions.
thought she looked at mo In q
queer way. and saw - hesitated to
answer. was on the point Of
apologizing for my inquisitiveness
when she startled me by replying. "Tm
a clafrvoyant."
I was thrown of my reserve still
more and couldn't help echoing. "A
clairvoyant!" !" IN actual astonishment,
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 20 many other interesting things
That houo tv, Sr,sSv1nv1
didn't want her to feel uncomfort-
able and laughed to reassure her, "Oh,
I'm not 'sot ag'in ito tell you the
truth, don't know q 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
pyejudiced and looks on that sort Of
thing as-all fraud" There were both
anger and q twinkle In her eye. as
though she knew she'd caught me In
the act, and then she added: "It's part
ly what I 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. 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 Le-
rolls. ''whose phenomena were more
wonderful than Eurapia Palladino's."
He was a physical manifestation me-
dium. He twas greater at ten years
of age than Slade."
Still even Jacques Lerolls wasn't 50
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 a
live bird into locked room during a
seance and had put it-after 1t had
f1uttered all about and everybody saw
it-into a closed cage-.dematerial-
ICED 1t twice In one evening"" said Mrs.
Delario. This girl had only just be-
gun to develop naturalization as one
Of her phases.
I 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 q 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 I were interested
and would undertake some investlga-
lions, she'd be glad to help me. and
I couldn't refrain from saying. "That
Is, you'll put me next to some first
class spooks?"
answered q 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 will-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 IRE Into you In self-defsnss
or Just to be a little nasty-shs went
away to Claire. And I'm going to con
fess right here that In spite Of ny
skspticism I felt creepy.
I also felt clearer In my own mind
ON many little things I'd noticed about
Claire: her coming to my statefoom
that time: her constant hanging aboot
me, even when she must have seen Il
was inconvenient for me to have hef:
and the way she 0semed % much q
The latter part of tie voyage 70 -
trying TO keep away nom Hn spsaa-
Eie staying b. hsEssaf n ~ state-
roo0. Had thro been manffsstations
occurring = the statseuom1 Or had