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my mother!" Barney's lips formed
to himself. "Mother!"
Yet now he had to know beyond
speculation. He saw that Mrs. VAIN
was just within the door; so he
dropped back to her and turned to her
in an appeal which she could not re-
fuse. "She is my mother?"
Your mother, sir" the housekeep-
.er said. eff she calls you in her sleep,
sir-or awake, if she says Dick, she
means you, sir Dick-you under
stand?'
Il understand" Barney whispered
You mean she has been asking 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 I brought you"
Barney's eyes dimmed.
How long has she been ill?"
"Since the injury, sir, when the ship
was torpedoed."
What ship?"
1.-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 60, Mr.. Dick, she'd
just got track of you at last. All
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 st. and presented himself at
the house which was his mothers and
asked for Mrs. Vain.
Nothing more has happened, Mrs.
VAIN" Barney said to her at once to
quiet the alarm which his appearance
at that hour had aroused. "She"-he
hesitated and then did not name his
mother, but repeated-"she was gain
ing strength when I left. OF course,
understand much more than I did
this morning; but Of course want
to know everything-everything you
can tell me-"
IT'S always been between her and
him" the housekeeper iterated inco-
herently. between her and him"
Her and-God?" Barney asked, be-
wildered.
"God?" the housekeeper repeated
and laughed "Ihe Devil on earth
himself: Mr. Lucas Cullen, Senior!
Don't you see? She's fought him
since she was child. a little girl. sir,
and he downed her; he disgraced her
and-and she lost you! Then she
came here and beat him-beat him
beat him and his family; all Of them;
she beat them all But she couldn't
find you and she couldn't" the
housekeeper stopped. Listen" she
appealed again. steadying herself.
She found you last fall. l told you;
then that happened! And they thought
she was dead so she let them think
sIo 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
-remember?"
- remember" Barney said.
He thinks he's safe now: for he's
beaten you both. But he's not beaten
her. He thinks no has; for he thinks
she is dead. But she's going to get
wei and tight him for you and for
her. So she'll send for you soon:
shou tell you what she should; trust
her and wait!'
Al half.paNt seven on that same
morning, Lucas Cullen, Sr., was at
breakfast when his eyes struck an
item headed, open Draw Claims An
other Victim"
It was under that open draw head.
ing; and the paragraphs. when care
fully. very recklessly driven. had
dashed up the approach Of the Rush
St bridge and the driver. disregard
ing the danger signals. hurled his
car through the barrier and into the
river. The bodies were recovered:
and there followed very fair descrip-
tons OF Miss Platt's husband and the