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t 0 CHAPTER L TM PROBLEM. i HAVE known Donald Donalds, Jr ever sine be was born; la deed, -1 ma say. much longec There Is an entry about him la my diary under date of Marco 10. 1877, ' , , and that la about four yeara before ne , ' aaw the light and nearly twe year be fore I first beard of either of bl par ents or tbey of each etber,v In plain wonls, he was aa Ideal of mine, a sub ject ef speculation and study, a dweller ,' In my brain 'before be bad an actual .' existence, a tbat be might be a tenant - f my heart. . It la singular tbat two romances, many mysteries and a' very startling tragedy should bang upon ao small and commonplace peg as Ibis which I ball show too. Twenty odd yeara ago ' 2 made an appointment with Stephen Hackett tben my ; partner ano since - deceased, to meet him In a New York ' bookstore.1 choosing the place simply because It was convenient -1 waa ahead of him and of the bour. Indeed.' and while waiting 1 took up volume en titled "Psychic Marveled by an ng Jish wrlterv bom : I "now perceive to have been both credulous and menoa ' clous, a man to believe a good lie and Improve It in the telling. Jn those la,vs however, I bad read little, and tbe boob appealed to me as a scientific presents tlon of a subject -of .great interest and Importance too often shunned by prac tical men and left to be tbe sport of im ; postors. : ' When Hackett arrived. I waa sininc on top of a small stepladder on rollera - a. device common In bookshops., whifo- two polite clerks were vainly endeavor Ing to gain my -attention for the pur - pose of telling me tbat the business or . the ' establishment was . suffering ; for Jack of that ladder. r I bought "Psycbf : . Mar vela," and we devoted the evenlnp to It. Backett and I, In the library ol my bouse In Tonbrldge, W.J.;- y Now, If you please that waa the cause of Donald Donaldson. Jr. If I bad not suggested the bookstore as a place of meeting. If tbat particular vol ame bad not caught my eye, perhaps even if tbe 'stepladder bad not been placed handily for me to alt upon there would be no story for roe to tell But some one built the store, and eorne : ,De wrote be book, and some one else - was tee rather or the author, ana an other was bis grandfather, and ae s ' back to the monkey who was tbe a n . cestor of taem all, not to go further -Tracing causes la a famous old amuse ment of our race,: though we know al- ready, that the whole, past of tbe uni verse is tbe cause of every blade of grass, even as tbat blade Itself la as essential prop of the whole future. It la a worthy effort, however,. to see as much of this ; vast skelo as we can, - and be la wisest wbo sees most, pro vided that be does not fancy that be sees all wblcb exists even in the small portion tbat la under his eye. , To resume my story, Hackett and I pent a studious evening with "Psy chic Marvels." sitting up so late tbnt neither of us was fit for business on the following day. and we were led to read many, other books and to engage at last in a practical common -sense Investigation of an interesting subject . The firm of Hackett & 'Harrinpton manufactured carpets still does so. In fact and keeps the name, though my partner long since closed bis earthly account and went to meet another wblcb could not have been one to shame blin. I hope my own may be as good, for It must soon be closed Tun bridge . people began f to call me "old" John Harrington a matter of ten years ago,: However, in the days of which' lam now writing 1 was a young man of forty-two. and Hackett was not . much older. : We bad made a good bit of money In our business, and both of us had been fortunate in outside In Vestments, so that, we felt very secure. The time had come when we might afford to relax, tbe pressure ' under which we bad labored since boyhood and to take more ease and pleasure In .the worlds But the opportunity to en joy Is one thing and the power is an other. I had little appetite for amuse ments, and Hackett had none. We were uneducated men, with narrow so cial interests, and. to be brief about It. we really did not know what to do with ourselves, unlike many others In the tame situation, however, we knew That w-as the matter with us we need f 3 mental exercise. TUa decision we lad reached before tie EuL-Hiibman's lock fi'il Into our hanUs ea acceptable sursestion. and c" ereJ ' If we fcni' r t c! csen to Invf ' -e rscl.'c jl.e : ' : 1. t'.e bidi-n n or ' rs of t'. t l- r an i..:.;i, we s:.ou:j iive f..::W'.iti f tr.e ctl.cr line, with a 1. 3 CkZl'.:3 re- f if t It Vi't ' 1 le i cm. r u : a r - 5 f i'O I. i: Copyright, IttB, by , , Charles W. Hook Exphaatk f the Stvet ' Ht Kit tone h ' . flgblh. Key af dwStvw ; : By HOWARD, FIELDING mffered. We decided to base our work upon the wisdom of . tbe old proverb wblcb aays. "First catch your rabbit. and tbea cook him.. There Is no doubt whatever tbat nearly all mankind have tried to cook this particular rabbit be fore catching. him.. ; ; Suppose we take tbe psychic problem In its simplest form, wblcb used to be called 'clairvoyance, and I still think that that la the best term for It Is there upon record one single genuine case of it proved beyond doubt? Hack ett and I read fifty books and failed to find aa Instance based upon such evi dence as we would accept to our bus! oesa. Yet . where there Is so much smoke there must be a little fire, and. using 'this . crystal of popular wisdom as a touchstone in the matter, ( would be willing . to assert i that ; one ten- mullontb of the labor wasted la base less discussion of doubtful facta wonld have sufficed to give tbe world enough genuine facta ' to satisfy - all candid minds. ,''' ,- v -- Have patience with, me; I am get ting the philosophy of the subject out of the way as. fast as I can. The ca lendar point that Hackett and' I went out to catch a real rabbit in eth er words, a human being wbo bad bad genuine "supernatural" message. We" did not care where It came from or what it was about or bow It was transmitted so long as it could be proved tbat It .came and that no known organ of tbia mortal, body could have enabled the Individual to receive It-" When I was a boy, 1 used to bunt rabbits In a; piece -of woods wblcb Wal supposed to be a particularly good place for tfaeim All youthful hunters went there, and as a result (visible to me in these mature years all sane rabbits had pone over in toi another -county. : One day, when the snow bod come and the rabbits bad put on their winter coats.' some Jester set np the corpse' of a white jcat la the edge of tbe woods in an absurdly conspicuous position. : f sow It and blazed away, though my om mop sense should have told me that U -could not be. a rabbit because such a preposterously reckless rabbit would have been shot long ago. Yet 1 wasted my powder, and; ttavlng done so, I se tbe creature op again In the same place, and every mother's son tbat came that way exercised ills marksmaneaip'iso' long' there was anything to shoot t. And next day. In a different spot but equally conspicu ous, the Joker played the game once more., 1 remember tbat for a long time afterward all the boys were ashamed to be seen going Into that piece of woods with a gun ' ' It took Hackett and me about rear to discover tbat genuine psychics are not found la tbe edge of the woods be side tbe beaten path; that It is bard to find thein even when one knows where they are. for they Ue low. and. like the rabbits, they Imitate the natural color of the surroundings. . ',' You may accept this as a general rule; When your fellow man takes you by the button of you coat and .ends you Into a corner to tell you of a pro phetic dream or a mysterious psychic message, be does not believe tbe story himself. Perhaps he may be trying to believe it but uo one has to try to be lieve In a real experience of that kind after he has had It He knows. And the chances are good that he will noi talk of It to bis closest intimate.. It is ever the element of doubt that leads to talking.:'- v5' , X ,;. .'.;:.-; , Our hobby gave to? fjackett and me an excuse for study, an aim Id travel and an opportunity of meeting cultivat ed men and women. As it was an elected hobby and not the result of congenital mental distortion, we rode It calmly ,and were never mistaken for cranks except by cranks. It is true that eorne, of our earlier experiences were more or less absurd, but we were saved from serious error by the busi ness man's faculty of turning from tbe impracticable to the practical. When we. encountered .'. an Impostor, we promptly charged bim up to "profit and loss" and passed on to the next item. - It was while engaged in a fruitless though not uninteresting Investigation in Boston that we came quite by acci dent upon the most Important Informa tion, we maae tne acquaintance or a young physician named Harold Whit- Ing. who was then and is today one of! line most honest minded men In the world. I believe that Whiting would not He even to himself, and there are few of whom so much can be said. lie was amusinji himself with experiments la the matter of peculiar capacities and knowledge exbilited by persons in the typnotic slate, but confessed tbat te tad found no facts cj-on which con f.'u '.tiis cf any Importance could be In --I Vi'e discovered that t:s thoustt tad t-:i turned i.;to tl-'H channel by a re- n.i"' 5tt.?e omirrence w! i be tad wit Jviisi!.? di:;-; r - 1. 1 ;.t we l.n 1 tvs: '".J-.-t ' - i)j -'- - I ' ) t y n r y It : i- t f i - t i wus receieu. 1 snow tl- - lta details, but I cannot give you tue facta nor tell you the man's name tte. cause I gave bim my word that 1 would not disclose them." i-.-,-. , , ,', Perceiving our disappointment ; be expressed sincere regret and by way of atonement be gave ns the name of a young woman in New Haven wboni it might be worth our while to see.' -I received a letter about ber'som time ago from an Instructor In psyCboi ogy at Yale, an old friend of mtue. said he,- !My friend and several otbet members of the faculty are lnvestigat Ing the case, and they regard It aa gen nine and Important The girl's name Is Dorothy Vaughn. She la an orphan and Uvea With her aunt Mrs..Eusti who baa bad certain occult experience herself, aa I am told." .; - 'A. j'i? , Be gave us the address of Mrs, Eus tls and the name of his friend. His reference to the fact that unusual pow er appeared both in the aunt and the niece led to a general discussion of the restriction of such powers and their persistence In famlliea.- No, one who has given the subject any study can doubt that these traits are banded down from generation to generation Often a vague family tradition leads back to tbe true psychic whose powers. weakened by admixture with a com noon strain, reappear, to flicker uncer tainly in tbe present day. " v Backett seemed to find much mate rial for thought in this conversation He did not contribute largely to It, be ing a man of a slow mind and of few words, but some' daya later.' while o we were on tbe way to New Haven;' he suddenly emerged from a; reverie to ay.- ' w -11'''''''- ' "I wonder what would happen if two of them should marry T "' ' When I bad found out what be was talking about, I agreed with bim that tbe experiment -would be ' very- Inter esting if there were any way of mak Ing it Backett suggested - tbat we should go forward Into ; the smoking car, and when we were' there and he bad emeked a part of a lofcg cigar he aaidt v,?$sKisjv i::-'iii t-s: -"M'k: "I don't see why there Isn't," - ' I I replied with tbe argument tbat two persons of opposite sexes, possessing powers . now commonly called occult must be naturally antipathetic, so that a marriage between, them could not be brought about for. If this were not so, the whole human race would have be come "psychica" long ago. The clair voyant power, not to go further In the matter, is an obvloua and great ad vantage and would certainly have been utilized by evolution to the extent of crowding from the earth all other kinds of men unless nature had set up some sort of barrier, and where should we look for it except 1U tbe realm of that attraction which we call love? " ' ' - As we were running into the station at New Haven, Backett remarked that there might be something in what 1 bad said, i ' :tj "I'm aorry., too." b Added. '"foeott seemed to me'aa If' I bad an Idea." As a matter of fact this Idea -had long been In my mind, and at Interval during the space of nearly two years I had jotted down notes In my diary regarding an imnginary child whose parents should both be psychics, but i had never discussed the subject with Hackett His idea of this experiment in heredity waa therefore entitled to tbe credit of an independent discovery. CHAPTEIl II. CTOS THE MOTHER S SfDK. M ICBURNHAM. the Instructor to whom Dr. Whiting bad referred us, proved to te a pleasant fellow well worth meeting, but we bad no soom-r made known our errand than be became much disturbed. , ", , " , ( "A most unfortunate thing has bap pened." he said. ; "Since the Cxi te of my letter, to Dr. Whiting Mrs. Eustis baa died. Miss Vaughn la In deep grief and in a very trying position, too. poor child. Her aunt left nothing but debts, and well, some of us are tryiu? to see what we can do for her. - She hasn't a penny or near relative in the world, and nobody seems to be com it uas an ordinary cabinet fhotngrnph Lig forward to Le'p her except vn. and we're men, you t . e. and It's very era barras!ns. .5 be t.-n't tie sort of"tirl to t!sp t: frc l any one. and . It ' t . 1 by ter taking !.S f 3 If It I i- ( ' I t f.t f r. led occupation that We r'? a'J very Mue r ti read t..e I t I mm .'!f .i .t '.b Miss : i i.. r tit' that's burdiy tue word. 11 happen to have a portrait of her." ' And be pretended to forget which pocket It was in. It was an ordinary cabinet photograph, but It showed most extraordinary face, a dainty com posite of womanly and childish quad ties. -1 would not have been able to de cide from this picture whether Mi Vaughn was fifteen years old or twen ty-flve. and after my first glance I look ed up at Burnham and asked. "How oldlaabe?" ' 1 t m Be laughed. -. ' "Tou'd be as much putxied If you saw tbe original." be said, and this proved to be ao exaggeration. "Th youth. I think, la In the lower part of the face. What a pretty mouth and chin! Did yon ever see such a prett mouth and chin? There's all tbe dim pled sweetness, all the quick sensitive -boss of girlhood, and yet no weakness But there's a calmness in the forehead and eyes the eyes a bit long, as you notice, with very delicately marked browa. The eyea are deep blue and all the coloring exquisite. Her hair Is like the gold of Ophlr. It may seem bad taste for me to run on. like this,' be added suddenly, "but Miss Vaughn's beauty is such a simple and natural thing that one feels no hesitation in speaking of It Why, even In her prea ence I sometimes find myself howev er, that's neither here nor there. You asked 1 bow old she was. - She'll be eighteen next week." - "If the young lady's peculiar powers are of Interest to science," said I, .'It would seem as If some financial ar rangement might be made whereby" ( "We've suggested that but she won't listen to It" . he Interrupted, "The queer part of It Is that Miss Vaughn Insists tbat she baa no powers which are not shared by all our species. She baa, though." ....'-. vve had reached Burnham's lodgings by this time, and there we conversed for an hour or more upon tbe subject of the experiments which had been made In . the case of Miss Vaughn, They seemed to me to possess the vague' and unsatisfactory -, character which I had learned 0 associate with common fraudulent practicea. The young' lady answered questions . con cerning matters of which she was sup posed to have no knowledge, peculiar ities of persons whom she , bad . not seen; Incidents la the Uvea of the ques tioners or of their friends. It was not able that- she passed into no state of trance or mesmeric-sleep. - She remain ed entirely normal, not even exhibiting the excessive fatigue which usually follows such manifestations. She did show repugnance, however, and was always more pleased when she failed than when she succeeded. After a ae ries of failures she would laugh almost hysterically and display a childish re lief and delight Her successes de pressed her. Tbe best of them, so far aa, I could learn, were not conclusive. but there were some that were hard to explain upon any natural hypothesis, anil they must have been extremely I startling to the Inquirers. ' As Burnham continued to speak I be came less hopeful of Miss Vaughn as a j possible subject of Investigation, less I Interested in her as a psychic, but far I more Interested In her as a woman. 1 Somehow the words of this fiery bun hopeless lover, this poor little, - thin. dark, ugly faced fellow, wbo : bad no right to crave a beautiful woman-ex cept tbat he couldn't help It built up before my mind's eye a very charming personality. I talked the matter over, with Hack ett and we agreed that Miss Vaughn was undoubtedly worthy of substantial assistance, If It could be rendered with out offense., Her situation was cei- talnly , most lamentable and Involved no fault of her own. Having beard cf this case, we could hardly "pass by on the otber side," as Hackett ex pressed it. Tbe fact la that my part ner had been playing the role pf tbe good Samaritan in many towns tbat we bad visited.' and mostly to the unde serving. I am afraid. We decided that I should call upoa Miss Vaughn, and so I asked Burnhau to secure her permission; but he told me very promptly that he did not care to undertake the errand. "I couldn't Ue w her." said he.; "She'd have to know tbe object of your, visit here, aud men she wouldn't see you.' , Incidentally I learned during , this conversation that Miss Vaughn was an Intellectual prodigy, having been the youngest girl ever' graduated from Smith college. Indeed, she would prob ably not have been admitted to that Institution if ber age bad been correct ly stated, but ber aant bad misrepre sented the matter to the authorities. Her record bad been exemplary, both for scholarship and conduct - "She mlpht teach." said Burnham, "but I really don't see bow she's going to live till we can find ber a position. After leaving Burnham's room I went at once alone to the Eustis residence. which must have been considered quite a grand bouse in Its day, A despondent old woman answered my ring and ad mitted me into a chilling, gloomy at mosphere and eventually Into a small room at tbe rear of the bait It bad the look of neglect as If It bad not been used In some weeks. My eye was at tracted by a small table unlike the ether furniture and awkwardly placed near a window. It was littered with loose sheets of writing paper, which were dusty, and some of them, were covered with scrawls In pencil as if child had phiyed with them. I t' t t' it I knew why this table wa 3 i' re. Clearly Miss Vaughn's psy ch' ell. ! i - - t were written wi;b a peu I w ! 1 I I t ; t' ue pleased. This scrawline i like tbe usual counterfeit I wtiuli have fiven n y bond ! - -y cf the face iu the V.'cll. we may ell t e tie ' is f. I t -in to re-ret ! l.-. u vnitn uud ceunoneu, A stro Inward con it-iion ihat thai oiun nw the true psychic .worth a rliu-.iuno Dorothy Vaughns to the eaue oi ,v ence, arose to prominence iu iu,t sclousnees, sod I wae(rlviuj2.:u lU. of some means by ;whleh I could lean bis name when a very pleasant voiet spoke my wav.''-; ' ; f :--r f.-Vf ' I turned and saw a sQgbt xlri'.ch fa. ore, all In black. There, was the pu, sling, childish, womanly face .that tL picture naa snown, tue perrecuy op. Innocence quaintly combined with a rene wisdom such as 1 might imngUu In an angel. Yet this serenity wa wholly Intellectual,: . 1. could see th.i tne poor girrs Douy waa rackea win nervousness and apprehension.' Lou linesa In this old, decaying house, frou which she could see no way out tut the brighter world, bad told upon hei I cannot remember that my sympatb ever - went out so suddenly - and strongly toward any other human be Ing. ,.' ' , ) ' She had seen that I was looking curl oualy at the table, and t observed that I could tee that th poor gtrV$ badywu rwnca wufi nervouene. she shuddered at tbe sight of It, Yet as If the thing exerted some sort oi fascination, the poor girl advanced di rectly toward It nd I heard the pen ells click in her nervous fingers as she gathered them up. Miss Vaughn." said I, "it is In my mind to offer you employment I have heard that you need it With this pur pose In view, will you permit me to ask you a few questions T' She sat down In the chair by the ta ble as if she lacked the strength to stand. In tbe few seconds tbat elapsed before she answered me her nervous ness Increased, She began to mark upon the sheets of paper with one of the pencils, though1 1 am Sure she bad no consciousness of doing so. What Is the nature of this employ ment?" she asked. There was a longer pause than be fore. I could sea clearly enough wbat the poor little girt expected. Burnham and others had suggested her peculiar powers as a menus of earning her Jlv Ing, and she felt that I bad come upoi: the same errand. Seeing how she shrank from that theme, I had not tbe heart to take it up. You have heard about me,": she said. "You think I am some phenome nally gifted monstrosity. Really I am nothing of the sort I am just like any other girl. I can guess things. So ca;: every woman. My aunt was Interested In in' that subject and so did It am not iutcrested and shall never do it again." It was a pitiful protest and it car ried the day with me. v . - I think you mistake my errand." said I as gently as possible. "Have you ever had auy experience in teach Ing?" ' - ' - She dropped tbe pencil and stared at me. We are planning to open an evening school In the town where I live," I continued. '"A great part of tbe popu latlon consists of people who work In my factory, tbe Hackett & Harrington carpet mills. Some of these people- and I am thinking now of the young women especially have lacked educa tional training In their childhood. We are going to give them a chance to re cover the lost ground.'' Tbey are obliged to work ln the daytime, but many of them will welcome the opportunity to study and to acquire some simple ac complishments in the evening. We are not slave drivers. Our people do not have to drop exhausted into their beds as soon as they have eaten their sup pers." ;,,y '-...;7'-v';;v.'".; At this point Miss Vaughn interrupt ed me by suddenly falling forward, with ber head in her bands. I think it must have been five minutes that she wept and sobbed, and I was both dis tressed and alarmed. tbOngb she kept assuring me that she was not ill and that she was, very happy. When she had recovered some share of self com mand. she begged me to give ber a trial in the scboot I should so love that work," she aaid over and over again. I know 1 should succeed." The Idea seemed to enchant ber. She spoke of her own powers with con3 dence. She became brilliant enthusias tic, splendid in fact precisely the sort Cf grl to inspire the rlht feeling in our young women of Tunbridse who must take up too late In life the heavy men tal tasks of chlMhood. I was greatly embarrassed and a vic tim of that cervo-.:3 (satisfaction which cones to a rational, practical can when te 1 1:: timers into a rol and it 1 J:jj:doi: 8"n It ii a Fre. :- s of l:-j-I'" '-""e. I i s r - 1 f t it ) n t f '-. t' ' - f - !-;(' VI that she would always credit me with 'a kindness, 'even though I should con fess In the most opivi manner tbut 1 had come upon a wholly differeuf er rand.- ' yv. While I hesitated tbe -poor girl wat on tbe rack, . Her nervousness wss un controllable., be began to scrlbblt with the pencil and to twist the sheen of paper In U-r fingers without know ing what she was doing." Seeing this, i came straight to tbe point ' " . "It's a simple-matter of business," aid I: rather sudden,, of course,.but you mustn't mind tbat: The position ii yours if you'll take it and, for my own part I'm more than content We'll make the salary satisfactory and let It begin Immediately, though the school The crazy pencil stopped, and the dear child wbo baa been like my own daughter from that .moment looked tip Into my eyea while the tears shone up on ber cheeks. Now, ' this may seem a small matter to cause so much emotion, but It mu be remembered tbat Dorothy had been at her wlt'a end since ber aunt's death. We forget sometimes that the term "a living" has close connection with the verb to live," ; Whether a pennllesi girl Is alone In the world or a man fighting in the heart of a mob feels a pistol pressed against bis head, it It much the same. 5 ;:We should not .look for perfect calm, And that Is the evil of our present social system, that It pots the poor-and the distressed ever at their worst and their weakest It la grand to see a human being stand un moved in deadly peril, but as a busi ness man I cannot say that we produce the best possible results in this world by making life one long, mortal emer gency for the majority of our species. . While I was endeavoring to make Dorothy understand that I waa no an gel sent from heaven, but only a carpet manufacturer from Tunbridge, N. my glance happened to fall upon ihe ueeis 04 paper vu iu iouic, iuu un served with surprise that she had been writing a man's name. . She must have written it In whole or in part at least a hundred times. It waa Donald Don aldson. .... .' ' "I was only scribbling," she said, de tecting me In the impertinence of read ing over ber shoulder.- "That's nothing at all." "Do you mean tbat It's a fictitious name?" I asked, greatly surprised. "It's nobody that f know." she said, with a glance of quick Inquiry at me. I assured ber with all sincerity tbat the name was a total stranger to my ears." It waa aucb an awkward, tongue twisting name that no one could for get it "Did you fancy that it might have been suggested by my mind to yours," I asked: "tbat I might have been think ing of this man?" - "Oh, nor she cried hastily. "That la lmpossible-r-certainly impossible for me, I am a, normal minded girl, just like any other, Whatever I have done In in that way Is only what all people can do If tbey are silly enough to try. Please, please don't ask me about it!" I was very anxious to do so, being uiuruugniy conviuceo was uaa stum bled upon a genuine and remarkable manifestation of occult power, but Miss Vaughn was in a state of great nerv ous tension, and It would have been cruel to press unwelcome questions. So we talked a little while about the school, and she was soon at ber best- happy, hopeful and earnest Her mind was as bright and quick ns a bird's eye, and she loved tbe sunny and pure heights. . u. . That evening, ' In Mr. Burnham's I room, I mentioned the Incident of the name. There were present a half d t en of the Instructor's friends who had assisted in tbe tests that bad been made of Mies Vaughn's power, and they were all sincere men with trained ; Intelligence. Tbey were greatly Inter- . csted by the occurrence, and they ques tioned me closely. It was with much difficulty that I convinced them that I had neier known a man named Don ald Donaldson and could not have in fluenced Miss Vaughn ip this matter. Various views, were expressed, though none was of any great Importance. but when Hackett and I bad gone to nm hntol ATM? uraM amnM.. - before retiring, my partner, who had preserved an almost complete silence during the evening, said: I have an Idea." "What Is itr I asked eaeerlT. hut he would not tell me. Wait till tomorrow," was all that I could get out of bim. While we were at breakfast on the following morning a messenger boy brought a telegram to Hackett He opened it and danced at the i-nntenta Then he took a bit of paper from bia pocket and laid It before me, saying: 1 sent that last night and this la the reply: . - .... I read as follows: Dr. Harold Whiting, Boston: ' Have learned that Donald DnnaMavm la the man whom you referred to In mur : talk with ua. Can jrou give us his present address? H. K. Hlr-im And this: B. K. Hackett, New Haven: Mot at liberty to do ao. Don't let Don. Jldaon think that I gave you his nama. this ta Important. HxjtOLD Whito. Hackett chuckled softly. v "Of course bis address was easy enough to get" said he. "There's a New York directory in this hotel. Don aldson la a clerk at 40 Wall street" . TO BE CONTINUED. Fads Preteaaea. "Why does be always te; '3 wltb ths statement To make a loz -y bortr" "Oh, that's Just to enccr- -1 ; : f ttink he's going to i) VJ'Q Post Correctly T ' Ia this the wif t Askfi the nr. f 'I ' t. 1 i ve t- t f-"' i:.: rvlew v I'.h
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