Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, December 25, 1931 Page: 2 of 6
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"She had been our first governess
lor the children," Elinor said, "and
fhe often came in. She had made a
birthday smock for Buddv. and she
bad it in her hand.' She almost
fainted. I couldn't tell her about
Charlie Ellingham. 1 couldn't. I told
her we had been struggling, and
that I was afraid I had shot him.
She is yuick. She knew just what
to do. We worked fast. She said a
suicide would not have fired one
shot into the ceiling, and she fixed
that. It was terrible. And all the
time he lay there, with his eyes
half open "
The letters, it seems, were all
over the place. Elinor thought of
the curtain, cut a receptacle for
them, but she was afraid of the
police. Finally she gave them to
Clara, who was to take them away
and burn them.
They did everything they could
think of, all the time listening for
Suzanne Gautier's return; filled the
second empty chamber of the re-
volver, dragged the body ont of the
hall and washed the carpet, and
called Doctor Sperry, not knowing
that he was at Mrs. Dane's and could
not come.
Clara had only a little time, and
with the letters in her handbag she
started down the stairs. There she
heard some one, possibly Ellingham,
on the back stairs, and in her haste,
she fell, hurtiiiK her knee, and she
must hjve dropped the handbag at
that time. They knew now that
Hawkins had found it later on. But
for a few days they didn't know,
and hence the advertisement.
"I think we would hotter explain
Hawkins," Sperry said. "Hawkins
was married to Miss Clara here,
some years ago, while she was with
Mrs. Wells They had kept it a
secret, and recently she has broken
with him."
"He was infatuated with another
woman," Clara said briefly. "That's
a personal matter. It has nothing to
do with this case."
"It explains Hawkins' letter."
"It doesn't expiftm iiow ill"' mctl- i
ium kii'V everything that hap-
pened," Clara put in, excitedly.
'She knew it all, even the library
pastel 1 can tell you, Mr. Johnson,
I was close to tainting a dozen
times before I finally did it." "
"U;d you know ut our seances?"
I asked Mrs. \\ ells.
"Yes. i may a?, well tell you that
I haven't been in Florida. How
could J.' llie children are there, but
I "
"Did you tell Charlie Ellingham
about them?"
"After tiie second one I warned
him and I think lie went to the
house. One bullet was somewhe.
in tlie ceiling, oi in the floor of t..-
nursery. 1 thought it ought to be
found." 1 don't know uluther he
found it or not. I've been atraid to
see him."
She sat, clasping and unclasping
her hands in her lap. She was a
proud woman, and surrender had
come hard. 1 he struggle was
marked in her face. She looked as
though she had not slept tor days.
"You think I am frightened," she
said slowly. "And I am, terribly
frightened. But not about discovery.
That has come, and cannot be
helped."
"Then why?"
"How does this woman, this med-
ium, know these things?' Her voice
rose, with an unexpected hysterical
catch. "It is superhuman. I am al-
most mad."
"W e're going to get to the bottom
of this," Sperry sa d said soothingly.
"Be sure that it is not what you
think it is, Elinor. 1 here s a simple
explanation, and I think 1 ve got it.
What about the stick that was taken
from my library?"
"Will you tell me how you came
to have it, doctor?"
"Yes. I took it from, the lower
hall the night—the night it hap-
pened."
"It was Charlie Ellingham's. He
had left it there. We had to have
it. doctor. Alone it might not mean
much, but with the other things
you knew—tell them, Clara _
"1 stole it from your office," Clara
said, looking straight ahead. "W<
had to ha\ e it. I knew at the sec
I meant to get rid of it, when I
iiad a little time. 1 don't know how
it got downstairs, but I think "
"Yes?"
"We are house-cleaning. A house-
maid was washing closets. I sup-
pose she found it and, thinking it
was one of Mrs. Dane's, took it
downstairs. That is, unless " It
was clear that, like Elinor, she had
a supernatural explanation in her
mind. She looked gaunt and hag-
gard
"Mr. Ellingham was anxious to
get it," she finished. "He had taken
Mr. Johnson's overcoat by mistake
one night when you were both in
kno\y where we are?" ,
"I would like to sav? something
out of the wreck."
"That's easy. Horace, you should
be a heart specialist, and I should
have taken the law. It's-as plain at
the alphabet." He took his note* of
the sittings from his pocket. "I'm
going to read a few things Keep
what it left of your mind on them.
This is the first sitting.
"'The knee hurts. It is very bad.
Arnica will take the pain out.'
'"I want to go out. I want air.
If I could only go to sleep and
forget it. The drawing-room fur-
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"I stole the stick from your office," Clara told them.
the house, and the notes were in it.
He saw that the stick was impor-
tant."
"Clara," Sperry asked, "did you
see, the day vou advertised for your
bag, another siniiliar advertise-
ment?"
"I saw it. It frightened me."
"You have no idea who inserted
it?"
"None whatever."
"Did you ever see Miss Jeremy
before the first sittirg? Or hear of
her?"
"Never."
"Or between the seances?" /
scattered all over the
j ond sitting that it was his."
J1 "When did you take it?"
5| "On Monday morning, I wei
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Mrs. Dane's medicine, and you had
promised her a book. Do you re-
member? I told your man, and he
allowed tne to go up to the library.
It was there, on the table. I had
expected to have to search for it,
but it was lying out. I fastened it
tc my belt, under my long coat."
"And placed it in the rack at Mrs.
Dane's?" Sperry was watching her
jntently, with the same sort of
grim intentnvss he wears when ex-
amining a chest.
"I put it in the closet in my room.
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Elinor rose and drew her
down. "We must go," she said.
"Surely now yuu wiil cease these
terrible invest gations. 1 cannot
stand much luiurc. 1 am going
mad."
"There will be no more seances,"
Sperry said gravely.
"What are you going to do?" She-
turned to me, 1 daresay beeause I
represented what to her was her
supreme dread, the law.
"My dear girl," I said, "we are tiot
i^oing to do anything. The Neigh-
borhood Club has been doing a little
amateur research work, which is
now over. That is all."
Sperry took them away in his
car, but lie turned on the door-step,
"Wait downstairs tor me," he said,
"I am coming back."
I remained in the library until
he returned, uneasily pacing the
floor.
For where were we, alter all? We
had had the medium's story elali
orated and confirmed, but the lav
remained that, step by step, through
her unknown "control" the Neigh-
borhood I lub had followed a trag-
edy from its beginning, or almost
its beginning, to its end.
Was everything on which I had
built my life to go? It's philosophy,
its science, even its theology, before
the revelations of a young woman
who knew hardly the rudiments of
the very things she was destroy-
ing?
Was death, then, not peace and
an awakening, to new things, but a
wretched and dissociated clutching
after the old? A wrench which only
loosened but did not break our
earthly ties?
It was well that Sperry came
bat k when he did, bringing with him
a breath of fresh night air and stal-
wart sanity. He found me still pac-
ing the room.
"The thing I want to know," I
said fretfully, "is where this leaves
us? Where are we? For God's
sake, where are we?"
"First of all," he said, "have you
anything to drink? Not for me. For
yourself. You look sick.
"We do not keep intoxicants in
the house."
"Oh. piffle," he said. "Where is
it. Florace?"
"I have a little gin."
niture is
house.'
"Now the the second sitting:
"'It is writing.' (The stick.) "It
is writing, but tnc water washed it
away. All of it, not a trace.' 'If
only the pocketbook were not lost.
Car-tickets and letters. It will be
terrible if the letters are found.'
'Hawkins may have it. The curtain
was much safer.' That part's safe
enough, unless it made a hole in
the floor above."
"Oh, if you're going to read a lot
of irrelevant material "
I "Irrelevant nothing! Wake up,
veil; Horace! But remember this. I'm
not explaining the physical phe-
nomena. We'll never do that. It
wasn't extraordinary, as such things
go. Our little medium in a trance
condition lias read poor Clara's
mind. It's all here, all that Clara
knew and nothing that she didn't
know. A niiudreader, friend Horace.
And Heaven help me when I marry
her I"
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"Well," said Sperry, when he had
lighted a cigar. "So you want to
afterward.
I drew a chair before the book-
shelves, which in our old-fashioned
house reach almost to the ceiling,
and, withdrawing a volume of Jn-
seohus, I brought down the bottle.
"Now and then, when I have had
a bad day," I explained, "I find
that it makes me sleep."
H" poured out some and I drank
it, being careful to rinse the glass
As I have said, the Neighborhood
Club ended its investigations with
tiiis conclusion, which I believe is
properly reached. It is only fair to
state that there are those among us
who have accepted that theory in
the W ells case, but who have pre-
lerred to consider tiiat behind both
it and the physical phenomena of
the seances there was an intelligence
which directed both, an intelligence
not of this world as we know it.
Both Herbert and Alice Robinson
re now pronounced sniritualists, al-
lough Miss Jeremy, now Mrs.
Sperry, lias definitely abandoned all
investigative work.
Personally, I have evolved no the-
ory. It seems beyond dispute that
certain individuals can read minds,
and that these same, or other so-
called "sensitives," are capable of
liberating a form of invisible enemy
which, however, th-v turn to no
further account than the useless
ringing of hells, moving of small
t hies, and flinging about of diver*
objects.
To me, I admit, the solution of
the Wells case as one of mind-read-
ing is more satisfactory than ex-
planatory. For mental waves remain
a mystery, acknowledged, as is elec-
tricity. but of a nature yet un-
revealed. Thoughts are things. That
is all wc know.
Mrs. Dane, I believe, had sut-
pected the solution from the start.
The Neighborhood Club has re-
cently disbanded. We tried other
tilings, but we had been spoiled. Our
Kipling winter was a failure. Wt
read a play or two, with Sperry't
wife reading the heroine, and the
est of us taking other parts. She hat
a lovely voice, has Mrs. Sperry.
But it was all stale and unprofitable,
after the Wells affair. With Herbert
on a lecture tour on spirit realism,
and Mrs. Dane at a sanatorium for
the winter, we have now given it
up, and my wife and I spend ouf
Monday evenings at home.
THE END
WT.I'.KLY FINANCIAL REVIEW
Indications that the death rate
in the United States will record
little, if any, change over 1930,
when a minimum mortality ratio
was established, were contained In
eports made available December
*.5 bv the Public Health Service.
According to the report the death
irate among the industrial Insur-
ance group this year has been
averaging 9.6 per 1.000 as compared
to 9.5 in 1930. The number of death
claims among the 74.329,000 policy-
holders has been .slightly less than
a year ago but the number of
policies in force has declined ap-
proximately 1,000,000, bringing a-
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