New Britain herald., 1922-09-09

eyes Wldened WltA Jaw dropped, the dim, pink light upon his skin lost a tint as the blood went from Lucas Cullen's face; and Barney knew that he had recognized the voice.
 Direct yoice" some one gasped in awe; and others whispered il, Were hearing a direct voice. That's her voce,--I knew her"
 Bonnet Cullen had recognized 1t and dropped down into his seat, as- founded. his mother knew the voice; and Jaccard most certainly Of all, Lucas Cullen continued in the convie- ton that one dead was spea king.
 T am going to tel the account of Lucas Cullen and his family and of myself and my son. said the voice clearly and steadily, Tt begins far back; yet is brief enough,
 So far. even to Barney, the voice seemed to proceed from no located source He had believed his mother present among the yelled women at the left of the rows where the lights had gone out; but such was the quail ity of her tone that it seemed not enunciated from one spot but per vasive throughout the room.
 Every one was silent.
 'The beginning" continued the voice, was when l was a child in the Michigan forest. My father was the man whose spirit just now was here holding the Book of Norm on-whose cabin Lucas Cullen entered to quar- rel with him and kick the Book of Mormon from the doorway. My father was Richard Drane He cleared a farm in the woods, mar lied a Gentle girl from Big Rapids, and was living an honora ble, useful life when he crossed the path of Lucas Cullen who recently had ar rived to make his fortune in the forest"
 The source of the voice was dis covered. It came from that dark ened end of the room where Barney had supposed his mother to be; and, as people craned about or stood to see the speaker, she arose and. having cast of her veil and the dark coat she had worn, she stood little apart, dressed all in white.
 Mrs, .-Agnes.-Mrs. OH- yer Cullen.-she's here!-That's she! Why did she-How changed! How could 1t be-"
 It seemed to Barney that every one must recognize that she was before them in the body; yet so strong had ben the spell of the illusion that a few still saw her as phantom. Lucas Cullen did
 When she spoke on, Barney recog- nized that her deliberate. careful words were being recited from re- hearsals within herself repeated through years of waiting for such moment.
 "My father" she said, had ahan doned farming to take out lumber, cutting from land he had nome steaded and from surrounding sec tions which he bought. You could buy timber land cheap in those days; but there were men who thought II foolish to pay the government any thing at all for the great trees on the state lands They bought one sec ton and set up a mill and cut over the square miles all around. Lucas Cullen was one of these men. My father bought from the government five hundred acres of standing timber which he found that Lucas Cullen was cutting. This caused trouble for Cullen when my father asked for refund on his purchase money
 But the Mormon Drane-w whatever lies Cullen told against him-had one wife only. She was my mother. Cullen spread about dies One of the lies which proved in the end the most dangerous, was that the Nor
 l7 uvjfn f lumberman, Henry Laylor.
 AS she spoke, Agnes Cullen came forward and showed herself more plainly in the light. No one-not even Lucas Cullen, in his guilt-cloud- cd ciousness-believed her phantom now.
 Lucas Cullen told the lie about Richard Drane and Laylors wife only to harm the man who had made hlm trouble and to injure rival; for Henry Laylor had built a mill only few miles from Cullen's near little place called Galilee.
 Neither would let the other drive him away: so they fought till Henry Laylor was burned out and, as you have just heard he was killed.
 Lucas Cullen had that fire set he met near Galilee a man in his pay -Quinlan-and sent him to light shayings upwind from Laylor's mill When it was known that Laylor was killed, Lucas Cullen said that the man who had set the fire was the Mormon Drane who wanted to XIII 1aylor to get his wife. It was savage, lustful lie to believe; they went to get the Mormon and lynch him: then >as Culen-partly to save Drane being murdered, let us think. but tly also to stop sus- nicion swingii his guilty self made great for justice and for A trial for the Mormon and stopped the lynching-and perjured Richard prane into the cell where he died my father-for a crime which Lucas Cullen and his man Quinlan had done.
 ''Is it not so, Lucas Cullen stand up and deny it, if not SOL!
 She stopped and waited for answer; but Lucas Cullen neither stirred nor replied
 My father did not die for many years" Barney heard his mother say, My mother worked constantly to get my father free She died when was young, and I took up the use less attempts, ! changed my name
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