South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-03-19
Confessions ofaBride.
COPYRIGHT 1920 By eNeuePape Enterprise AS5OCiadlon

"Certeis still lvesi" ] gasped.
| perceived why ] should never refer
/ 20 Jordan Spence.
Rather. Certeis was alive n month
I ago. And in a Russian prison, It's
\ horriblel RIO one can help him
I Daddy says so. Daddy is half sick
\ he and Certeis We're business part
I ners for years-before the war"
The elegant Dr. Certeis-in
I dirty prison-half starved! can
I not picture him SOL He was the
1 most fastidious. the most cultured AZ
well as the handsomest Of meni How
! can ne endure to be shut away from
/ the refinements and the Injuries Of
/ life2"
I unused. as we walked Dr. Ger
/ tets had wooed me- madly. before
I Bob came home from college He
I had followed ire. like a shadow.
/ when Bob was in the war. ana when
/ peace came he had fled the country.
An hour before lea ing ne had in
I duced Chrys 10 marry him on the
/ plea that ne wanted his fortune TO
90 TO his best friends daughter, in
! case anything happened TO him.
SO Chrys the daring, Chrys the
adventurous. was wedded-but never
"a wife. Welded. only 10 become
widow Ii was 4 secret marriage.
Her friends had always regarded her
/ as "A spinster.
Jordan Spence had proposed to
I her and when she had told him
the truth. ne had hurried off to
Mexico to devote his talents TO cur
ing sick babies That was about
the most Improbable occupation on
earth. according TO Daddy Lorimer.
our last news from Certeis read
like a chapter from some new Ara
bian Nights AS a great adventurer,
he had no living rival except Dan
nunziO. Certeis had bought q mag
nificent yacht from a sugar manu-
facturer in Honolulu. and with two
Russian financiers, picked up in Ha-
wall was making for Asia.
Daddy had had the news from
secret service men who We're watch
ing for international spies. Certcis
was suspected of meeting the Rus
slams by appointment, and connivinF
with them for the restoration Of
aristoCracy 10 the new democracies
OF Europe Certeis was more than
a sly. he was = diSturber of world
+ peace-and the most dangerous
mar on earth.
Was Certeis actually Chrys hus-
7 bandg Impossible, 1 pinched myself.
and reread the cable. ] didn't be-
. lieve that Chrys was sure herself.
whether she was splnster. wife or
Y widow
How Chrystobel could have so
. tangled up her matrimonial affairs
I 7 could only understand only because
| 7 knew Hamilton Certeis 80 well
As a physician. the man had made
a great name before the war. Ger
I tets was n genius. Bob had ikened
him 20 Leonardo more than once. He
was a chemist. sufficient reason why
Daddy Lorimer had needed him with
T the Lorimer Co. He was an inventor.
his diving suit with respirator per-
United a man 10 walk freely on the
ocean bed at certain depth. He
was an art connoisseur. As a brain
and nerve specialist he had aCComp-
Iishcd difficult cures. To Daddy.
I for years his best friend. Certeis had
confided the secret OF his miracles:
. HypnotiSm,
In spite of her intelligence Chrys-
tobel was susceptible 20 suggestion.
She was always taking up some fan
tastic eastern cult. she had been an
ardent ouija devotee and a student
of spiritism She abandoned one
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