Evening star., 1922-11-10

- ger, had been able TO IoTesee
her own DEATH only the spirits
| with whom she claimed to be on such
intimate terms will ever know. For
Doreen passed suddenly and unex-
pectedly on to the realm with which
| she had seemed to be so familiar, and
she left behind her numerous proper
ties. Item, scenery and robes which
she had used in her trades. Upon
which one Sybil, once christeneo
sallp Sullivan. had promptly pounced
before any relative to Doreen haa
! time to claim them. For Sybil had
| watched Doreen give seances ana
was very much of the opinion that
! holding seances was going to be an
easier way to make a living than py
washing dishes and clothes and floors
| for a woman who had former!
done 1t.
| So that what Sybil could lay her
two hands on she did. and with them
| she disappeared; so that when the
! lawyer whom Dan Kellogg detailed
arrived at the former Doreen ioos .
| ing to claim her effects for his client
he found little to claim. "hlch ne
, reported at once to Dan, VINO was
| temporarily the guest of the state
because he couldn't raise bail, for
Dan Kellogg was being held as an
! accomplice in the Blaisdell pay roll
| robbery.
| Whcreupon Dan cursed roundly and
| assured the lawyer that his late aunt
! had possessed great deal ana INA
| among her papers would be ioullu
| documents that he much needed III
| his business.
! Aunt Dora slowed away all dat me
and Packy and she had laid by des.
| two years" he walled. De keys I"
de deposit boxes is in wild her eooos'
! IT'S dat little rat of Judy dat go
! away wild Aunt Dora's tingsNde
| night dey gave de bulls de slip,
| Dey was nobody could get IT but
Sally or Judy. and Sally was on d.
| outside: so I asks you. How could
she get away wild anything" Hun?
! It's dat rat of Judy. You get your
| hooks into Packy Cotter and tell HIM
to get Judy: tell him to throw a
scare into her and make her Iork
| over what she's got.
| SO Packy Cotter, being thus duly
! instructed. made so strenuous an
effort to lay hands on Judy. whom
| Mrs. John Munro Lindsay and her
Ethel, that he himself was landed
behind most unpleasant bars. 5" that
got them nothing at all. In fact. !"tt
| them with less than they already hau.
! For in his attempt at ilIgat on IN.
night when he was caught Facky i"St
something that Dan didn't hno"
| Packy had-Doreens dope book.
| About the dope" in i; Facky h'd
cared not at all, fortune-toiitnG ana
| scances not being his meter. out
| over certain figures III the back "l
| the book he had puzzled for hours
| and hours in vain. He juiiy wei
| knew that some OF the figures were
} % he q
| them had obtained in some upstate
pay roll rohberies and he suspected
| that some OF the figures were the
numbers of safety deposit vaults IN
! towns where Dorecn had safely
, stored the loot. but he couldn't tell
from her figures where those towns
| might be- And now the book was
! lost. he frettcd and sulked in his cell
| and thought Of all the things n"
! would do to Judy if ever he did get
| his hands on her.
| He knew lot of ways to make her
miserable. A lot Of them he had
! already tried.
AS for Judy herself. she felt deal
f! safer than she'd fclt for years, now
that she knew that both Dan and
/ Packy We're locked Gp. she was be
ginning to lose the scared look and
| the emaciated figure that had been
! her most distinguishing features dur
lnS tHe years sili'e atNs hf1u '"i'
ed her over to Nine. Doreen. \ good
and faithful little soul. decidedly
| weak minded she was actually be
| ginning to forget at times that SIC
had been once called Judy.
| For in the weeks since Susan Sue
RiXby had rescued her Judy and SUI
san both had been living in the
Pumpkin Shell. little house wherein
| dwelt Mrs John Munro Lindsay and
her twin children. and in which she
conducted d school Contrary"-4
| sort of day nursery for poor little
, rich girls and boys who dwelt in Its
| called Judy Ethel" for reasons OF
| their own. And Ethel she was be-
| ginning to feel herself.
For the little bronze-haired matron
was slowly but surely petting and
scolding and wheedling a scared lit
| tie rabbit of Judy into sane and
wholesome young slavey, a trig per-
son, who was becoming efficient and
| self-supporting. and who woulc
gladly have died for her new idol,
Mrs Merry, if It would have helped
that young matron at all.
So Ethel, who had once been Judy.
vas trying to forget the years In
which she had been Nine. Doreen's
had never been in Doreen's confidence
at all She had merely been Il tooi
TO be used in the trade, Il convenient
lay figure on which Doreea had
drared the garments of spirits"
about to be materialized.
Ethel felt deliciously important the
morning after Mrs. Lindsays hasty
departure for Canada. Obeying her
new mistress instructions. she sat,