The Press., 1922-11-30

! 4 I got letter from the girl-r
 sThe girl in the picture your soul mate? Oh, do let me have the letter. must show 1t to the medium"
 "Show 1t to nobody, said Tom "You've messed things up enough already"
 And that was all the satisfaction that Mrs. Claverly got from Tom The next morning Tom announced that he would not be home for dinner. No. he was not going to work, he was going to make a call out of town; he might not be back that night. Still no satisfaction, and the next week end he was away-"visiting friends" said Tom, and that was still all the satisfaction that Mrs. Claverly got.
 Monday at dinner she was frank ! Iy repentant.
 "You have been so cool to me late iy," she said, little tearfully. T am ! sure 1t was all because of that snap shot of yours. Honestly, l didn't know what the medium was going to ] do with 1t, and I think 1t was real | mean of her to go and give it to the 1 papers and to give your name and | everything. But, of course, 1t Is tn- i teresting-it's one of the best pieces l of evidence of the occult that there | has been for long time. You've got ! to admit that. But honestly, Tom, I'm sorry if I offended you. I hope you'll forgive me"
 Don't talk about forgiveness, aunt" said Tom. "Of course the fellows have been ragging me about 1t since they knew. It's given me a little notoriety that I didn't quite expect. But after all I'm much obliged to you and your medium friend. The laugh may be on her after all. But to change the subject, aunt, I, want to tell you of my engagement. feel sure you'll like her. She"
 ''But, Tom, you'll never be happy with any one but the spirit girl. She'll haunt you and make you regret"
 "That's the girl I'm engaged to-. You see-but suppose you let Eleanor explain, I've asked her and her aunt to come to ladies night at the club tomorrow. You join us and then we'll get the general introductions over with"
 And that was all that Tom would say.
 At the club the next night, when the prellminaries of introduction were over with, Mrs. Claverly looked, long and intently at the girl.
 Excuse me for staring" she said,
 "but I couldn't believe that you were l R,, vol1 S0
 you're Toms occult sweetheart, after all Isn't 1t wonderful to feel"
 "Wasn't 1t the funniest thingT giggled Eleanor. And we are so much
 obliged to the medium, too, because
 If it hadn't been for the picture never would have been able to fine \ Tom. You know how it was? YOu f see, Tom stopped for the night at the ., hotel where my aunt and were stop ping I admit that I was attracted from the first and knew that Tom haC {. noticed me, but of course there wa'
 no way of our getting an intrOductiOn
 We'll, anyway, the next morning, quite
 by accident, l left my little camerf
 In the lobby. f.
 -"Fred Gage had taken a snap O. me with it the day before, but WI hadn't turned it, And Tom mus
 have left his camera in the lobby
 too, and when he went back for 1t h.
 got mine. That was just before h.
 went away. knew right off that } had the wrong camera and l rathe
 thought it was his. It somehow didn'
 look like mine. l was so anxious t
 find out what Toms name was, bu
 auntie wouldn't let me ask the clerl v or look at the registration book.
 rather thought he'd find that pictQr ,- of me in the camera he took. He too !. one over it and made a double eX
 posture. Then when my picture al f peared in the paper, of course aun = insisted on our writing and askin il him to explain. All my friend q recognized it as me and leased m
 unn1ercifully about it. So we wrote o and right away Tom came out to SC + LIS and-well, won't 1t be rich! Whe + we send the announcement. of our CT
 gagement to the papers we're gOln 9 to let them have the little story abo' r the camera, not that we like pull . licity.- but that will let the WOrl S know that there really wasn't anythin
 spooky about the pictures after al n because of course there never is" " And so impressed was Aunt Clave Q ly by the tluency of her nephew ,r fiancee that she merely murmureC al "Of course not"