The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-01-16

This II . great trouble. She says
oh. yes, she wants you to be--to he
kindt That's what she sayG That's
It. TO b kind"
'D0es she"
"She wants you to Do kind" said
the voice. "Shs mods when tell you
this. Yes: Il must be right. She 10
q very nne lady. Very pretty. She
is 20 anxious for you to understand.
She hopes and hopes you win. Some
one else wants to speak to you. This
is man. He says-r
II don't want to speak 10 any one
else," said Eugene quickly. II
| want"
"This man who has come says that
he il q friend Of yours. He says"
Eugene struck the table with his
flst. II don't want to speak to any
one else, I tell you'll" he cried pas
sionately. ''If she is there r." He
caught his breath sharply. checked
| himself, and sat In ama1ement. Could
his mind SO easily accept 80 stipend.
GUS a thing as true1 Evidently It
could!
Mrs. Horner spoke languidly in her
own voice: ibid you get anything sat.
isfactoryf' she asked. II certainly
hope 1t wasn't like that other time
when you was cross because they
couldn't get anything for yOu."
"No, no." he said hastily. "This
was different. It was very interest.
Ing"
He paid her, went to his hotel. and
thence to his train for home. Never
did he SO seem to move through q
world of dream-stuff; for he knew
that he was not more credulOus than
other men, and If he could believe
what he had believed. though he had
believed 1t for no longer than mo.
ment or two, what hold had he or
any other human being on reality3
His credulity vanished Cor 80 he
thought) with his recollection that Il
was he, and not the alleged "Lopa,"
who had suggested the word ''amber."
Going over the notifying. plain
facts of his experience, he found that
Mrs. Horner or the subdivision OF
Mrs. Horner known as 'L0pa," had
told him to think Of bell and Of .
color, and that being furnished with
these scientific data, he had leaped
to the conclusion that he spoke with
Isabel ANDERSON!
3 For q moment he had believed that
Isabel was there, believed that she
was close to him, entreating hfm-en'
. treating him ito be kind" But with
this recollection a strange agitation
came upon him. After all, had she
not spoken to him? II his own un'
known consciousness had told the
"psychic's' unknown consciousness.
how to make the picture Of the pref
ty brown.haired, brown-eyed lady
hadn't the true Isabel-oh. indeed hel
very soul !-called to him out OF his
own true memory of her?
And as the train roared through the
darkened evening he looked out be-
yond his window. and saw her as ne
had seen her on his journey. few
days ago-an ethereal figure flying be-
{ side the train, but now 1t seemed tc
2 him that she kept her face toward HE
}. window with an infinite wistfulness.
}. =. ITO be kind!" II it had been
= Isabel, was that what she would have
said? If she were anywhere, and could
+ come to him through the invisible wall,
g what would be the first thing she
D would say to him?
t All, we'll enough, and perhaps bit
0 terly enough. he knew the answer I'd
!. that question! ITO be kind"-td
< George!
J. A red cap at the station
when he arrived. leaped for his bag
abandoning another which the Pull
d man porter had handed him. "Yessuh
0 Mist Morgan. Yessuh. You car wait
!. in front the station fer you. Mist Nor
z gan, subj"
:. And people in the crowd about thu
e gates turned to stare, as he passed
It through. whispering. THAT'S Morgan
e Outside, the neat chauffeur stool
J. at the door Of the touring car like
l. soldier in whipcOrd.
!? "rll not 60 hoAe now. Harry" sale
n Eugene. when he had got in. "Drsv'
=. to the City hospital"
$ "Yes, SIR" the man returned. mis-
Lucy's there. She said she expected
le you'd come there before you wen
home"
"She did?"
Is Eyes, sir"
Eugene stared. II suppose Mr.. Minis
" fer must be pretty bad" he said.
st Eyes, sir. I understand he's liabl
In IN get well. though, sir" He moves
is his lever into high speed. and the ca
went through the heavy traffic lik
err some fast, faithful beast that knew 1t
way about, and knew its masters nee
- of haste. Eugene did not speak agai
ee until they reached the hospital.
Fanny met him in the upper corr
d. dor, and took him to an open door.
i'll He stopped on the threshold
be startled; for. from the waxen face o
r. ~