Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-03-31


iturnity told me she must have some
thing to tell and l hoped that you,
posing to her as Leonora on the
strength of the resemblance, might
worm the secret out of her. At all
events, we were on the right trail. So
l hurried back to town-and found
you missing, Mrs. Trowbridge in hys-
terics, the lock broken on the studio
door, the devil to pay all round =.
Meanwhile Andrews had run up to
Kingston to hunt for MariO-on the
strength of your dream in which you
heard him tell LeonOra he must hurry
to catch his train there. When l got,
home, between three and four in the
morning, after a night of fruitless
searching for you, found a long dis
tance call from Kingston waiting for
me. Andrews reported that he had
located the camp which Mario had
rented for his honeymoon. On the off
chance that he might have been con-
6erned in your disappearance i
couldn't rest, of course, and it was
something to do jumped into my
car and arrived at Kingston about
nine O'Clock in the morning Andrews
had a road map, with the location of
the bungalow clearly marked. We
struck Immediately back through the
hills.
about five miles from our destina-
ton we met Mario afoot. You know
what he had to tell us. While we
were talking-it took some time to
make him understand you weren't
Leonora and that we had any right to
butt in-Carnehan boiled up the road
in a high-pOwered roadster, making
about forty miles an hour on a stiff
grade-didn't see us, because we'd
| stopped just around a bend in the
road, until he was almost on top of us.
| He got his brakes on in time to stop
| just short of my car, which of course
was blocking the road. Andrews and
Mario recognized him instantly, and
he knew Mario. After as interesting
three-cornered pistol fight as L ever
care to see again in the role of inno-
cent bystander, Carnehan took cover
in the woods. We pursued.
"Unquestionably Carnehan took you
for the ghost of Leonora, and was
convinced when he failed to hit you
once in five shots at close range"
"Yes," Priscilla said, ''the last thing
before he killed himself he shrieked
her name"
"Well," Fosdick resumed, ''you were
a physical and mental wreck. 1 had
to wait till you were strong enough to
confront Mother O'More and cheat the
truth out of her. Before you were
out of bed she had a paralytic stroke
that put her vocal cords out of COM
mission. She couldn't have talked il
she'd wanted to. l did everything that
could be done for her, and she clung
to life with amazing tenacity in one
so aged; but the second stroke came
yesterday, and finished her. 1 had
made the manager of the home per
sonal friend. He telephoned at once
and 1 ran out to Pawling this morn
ing. Among the old woman's few eff
fects we found these letters"
Fosdick didn't offer to give them tC
Priscilla. I'D rather you didn't reat
them vet" he said. They're rather
affecting letters; I'm afraid they'd up
set you. Later, when you're quite
strong, some time.
'They were written by your father
to your mother. She was Mother
O'More's niece. She met your father
through posing for him. Their mar
riage was an affair of sudden impulse
They loved each other devotedly, bu
they were never, after the first few
months, happy. Your mother had 6
strongly independent spirit. She wa!
out of place in the society of you
/ fathers friends, knew it, saw how sh,
handicapped him, and resented it bit
terly. She refused absolutely to tr,
J to mold herself to his ways of life
They quarreled hideously. 1 fancy
She wanted to leave him, and h
wouldn't listen to it. Remember: the,
: were desperately in love.
Eventually they left New York OF
, forlorn hope, planning to establisl
themselves in some part of the coun
try where they were not known ant
7 try to build up life together. Tha
t was a foreordained failure. Your ia
: ther was miserable away from hi
: home and his friends. At last you
t mother took her fate in her hands an
ran away. She took with her Lee
nora, leaving you to your father"
l "Leonora was my sister!'
"You were born twins in California
several months before your mothe
5 ran away. Your father use
every possible means to try to fin
: your mother and induce her to retur
to him, but she eluded him till tn
end; she died, it would seem, a yea
or so later, leaving Leonora in the car
Of her aunt-Mother O'More. Thes
letters were addressed to your mothe
l in her care. 1t would appear the
T were never answered"
: But Priscilla was no longer lister
ing; and perceiving this, Fosdic
paused.
'My sister!" the girl exclaimed afte
many minutes of thought-'Leonora
!. "That is the explanation Of the mys
terry" Fosdick affirmed. "That
strong psychic affinity exists betwce
twins has long been a scientificall
accepted fact. The records of psychi
research contain many instances 4
telepathic and telesthetic communica
ton between twins. No record exist
of a case so extraordinary as your;
. to my knowledge; still, that is the tru
, explanation"
'But LeOnora Did she kno0
about me? l mean, did she dream d
, me as 1 dreamed of her? 1 wor
, der :"
"She did, to some extent at teas
She told Mario about it. OF cours
she had the advantage of you, becaus
, she knew she had a sister. But sh
p had glimpses of your life in he
dreams, now and then, and envied yo
and resented your happier fortunes
So Mario says"