Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-08

to her in an appeal which she could
not refuse. she is my mother?"
Your mother, sir" the house,
keeper said. IF she calls you in
her sleep, sir-or awake, if she says
Dick. she means you, sir. Dick
you understand ?"
Il understand Barney whis-
pered. You mean she has been ask
ing for me?"
when she did not know it, she
asked for you. Dick, my baby; my
boy-Dick,' she said this morning.
That was why / brought you"
hBarney's eyes dimmed.
How long has she been ill?"
Since the injury, sir, when the
ship was ~torpedoed.'
What ship?"
The ship that she was going back
to France on, sir, last September to
find you. The Gallantic."
ITO find me?" Barney repeated
dazedly.
Yes. sir. You see, Mr.. Dick,
she'd Just got track of you at last.
Al! your life, for twenty-three years.
she'd been searching for you: and
then" Mrs. Vain stopped.
Late in the evening Barney went
to Scott street and presented him.
self at the house which was his
mothers and asked for Mrs. Vain.
Nothing more has happened
Mrs. VAIN" Barney said to her at
one to quiet the alarm which his
appearance at hat hour had aroused.
"She"-he hesitated and then did not
name his mother but repeated-'sne
was gaining strength when L left. OF
course, l understand much more
thar l did this morning; but OF
course l want TO know everything
everything you a tell me-"
IT'S always been between her and
him." the housekeeper iterated in
coherently, between her and him"
Her and-God?" Barney asked,
hewildered.
"God?" the housekeeper repeated
and laughed. The Devil on earth
himself; Mr.. Lucas Cullen, Senior!
Don't you see? She's fought Kim
since she was a child. a little girl,
sir, and he downed her; he disgrace
ed her and-and she lost you! Then
she came here and beat him-beat
hin.-beat him and his family: all
of them; she beat them all. But
she couldn't find you and she could
net tn housekeeper stopped.
Listen" she appealed again, steady
ing herself. she found you last fal!
L told you; then that happened!
And they thought she was dead; 50
she let them think she was dead,
to beat them-beat them so they
could never down her again. But
he did it. He came here the other
day; that day Ethel Carew left-re-
member"
II remember" Barney said.
"He thinks he's safe now: for he's
beaten you both. But he's not beaten
her. He thinks he has; for he thinks
she is dead. But she's going to get
well and fight him for o and for
her. So she'll send for you
she'll tell you what she should
trust her and wait!"
AT half-past seven pm that same
morning, Lucas Cullen, Senior, was
at breakfast when his eyes struck
an item headed, Open Draw Claims
Another Victim"
l. was under that open draw head
ing; and the paragraphs, when
carefully read. related how a new
coupe, very recklessly driven, had
dashed up the approach of the Rush
bridge and the driver, C.sre-
garding the danger signals, hurled
his car through the barrier and into
the river. The bodies were recov-
cred; and there followed very fair
descriptions of Miss Platt's hus-
band and the girl who had been fire.
quently seen with Kincheloe.
CHAPTER XVII
The English medium, Mrs. Brand,
came to Chicago, sitting" in private
homes of several of the most proml-
nent people of the city and demon
strating evidences of communica-
ticn to the full satisfaction of the IL
creasing groups of devotees, and
daily convincing the skeptical of the
reality of her powers to reach the
world beyond.
She established, therefore, most
ideal conditions for the trial of Lu-
cas's plan to demonstrate the fact
of Agnes Cullen's presence in the
realm of the dead.
Shortly after Lucas Cullen,
Senior, had communicated to his
family his decision to attend
the sitting" of Mrs. Brand at Mrs.
Stanton-Fielding's. Barney received
by special messenger n of those
cards which admitted the holder TO
Mrs. Stanton-Ffelding's drawing
room between four-thirty and wife
thirty.
With the card came a note n
Dining him to Se present early, 10
coup an inc9hspicuous position
and particularly to avoid recognition
by the Cullens but to closely OBJ
serve them.
These directions were not signed,
hut Rarnay was cure that his mother
had written them.
you shall hear all-all," she had
promised him, when she last clasped
him, "all in its proper time, my
son. If 1 told you now, L would
spend too much-too much of what
I've kept within me for twenty
years" And he understood that h
die not mean solely her strength
"But it is almost time!"
Today Barney read in those lines
of his mothers handwriting that oc-
currences at last favored her; she
had sufficient strength to play her
part and the time-her time and his
and Lucas Cullen's-had come.
IT explain for the benefit of those
who otherwise may find confusion,
said Mrs. Brand when the seance
opened, that when in the trance L
appear to be generally subject TO a
control who styles himself Doctor
Keppel, whose personality employs
my material body for expression
Thereupon servants drew the WIN
dow blinds and turned IN the lights
in the ceiling.
Some profound transformation in
fuenced Mrs. Brands posture and
her manner of utterance; and, when
her lips next moved, her speech IN
dlcated the control of a markedly