New Britain herald., 1922-09-08

was just within the door; so h'
 dropped back to her and turned tc
 her in an appeal which she could mol
 refuse. She Is my mother?"
 Your mother. sir" the house. keeper said. If she calls you in hei sleep, sir-or awake if she says Dick derstand?"
 T understand" Barney whispered You mean she has been asking for me ?"
 When she .td not know it, she asked for you. Dick, my baby; my boy-Dick' she said this morning. That was why I brought you.'
 Barneys eyes dimmed,
 How long has she been illo"
 Since the injury, sir when the ship was torpedooed."
 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, MT. 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 street 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 gaining strength when l left. Or course. I understand much more than I did this morning; but of course I want to know everythlng-every- thing you can tell me"
 .It's always been beteween her and him." the housekeeper iterated inco- herently, between her and him
 Her and-God?" Barney asked, bewildered .... ....
 "God?" the housekeeper repeated and laughed. The Devil on earth himself; Mir Lucas Cullen, Senior! Don't you see? She's fought him since she was a child, little girl, sir, and he downed her; he disgraced her
  came here and beat hinl-beat him beat him and his family; all of them; she beat them all But she couldn't find you and she couldnt- the l housekeeper stopped. "Listen." she appealed again, steadying herself, | "she found you last fall, told you then that happened! And they thought she was dead so she let them think she was dead, to beat them-beat them so they could never down her again. But he did 1t. He came here the other day: that day Ethel Carew eft-remember?
 T 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 shes going to get we'll and fight him for you and for her. So she'll send for you soon; she'll tell you what she should; trust chr and waiti"
 At half-pa seven on that same morning, Lucas Cullen. Senior, 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 read, related how new coupe, very recklessly driven had dashed up the approach of the Rush street bridge and the driver disregarding the danger signals, hurled his car : through the barrier and into the river The bodies were recovered; and there followed very fair descrip tions of Miss Platts husband and the girl who had been frequently seen with Kincheloe.
 CHAPTER XVII.
 The English medium, Mrs Brand, came to Chicago, sitting" in private homes of several of the most promi- nent people of the city and demon strating evidences of communication to the full satisfaction of the increas- ing groups of devotees, and daily con- vincing the skeptical of the reality of her powers to reach the world be- yond.
 She established, therefore, most ideal conditions for the trial of Lucas 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 Fiehts, Berney received by special messenger one of those cards which admitted the holder to Mrs. Stanton Fieldings drawing room between 4:30 and 530.
 With the card came a note enjoin- ing him to be present early to occupy an inconspicuous position and par ticularly to avoid recognition by the Cullens but to closely observe them.
 You shall hear all-all." she had promised him, when she last clasped him, "all in it's proper time, my son. If told you now, l would spend too much-too much of what I've kept within me for twenty years" And he understood that she did not mean solely her strength. But 1t is almost I 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 Cullens-had come.
 q explain for the benefit of those who otherwise may find confusion" said Mrs. Brand when the seance opened, that when in the trance I lppear to be generally subject to a control who styles himself Doctor