Show AT THE SEAXCE The Lonely Widow Speaks With Her Harry and Is Comforted There were thirteen in the circle including in-cluding the medium The woman who believed but who had never given her faith the benefit of a spiritual seance and the man who doubted and who had fed his credulity on exhibitions of mediumistic me-diumistic power galore sat together on a narrow red divan in one corner of tho room and awaited developments with I widely contrasting emotions I Somebody turned out the and tured ga she drow nearer to him and laid her hand I on his with a convulsive shiver of m srled fear and excitement Her Invoun tary expression of faith In his power to I avert whatever evil might b lurking around under cover of the darkness I elicited a tender reassuring pat from his I disengaged left member and her half stineu gaap of nervousness ended With a sigh or satisfaction born of the knovyi < eute that he was there and aoie to protest i pro-test her She ha come to the meeting j to have momentous expecting huve questions i settled which had been troubling her for btb d1 cu uU LLt lO L V 1 mediate communication with unsten I messengers from the spirit world overawed over-awed tier with a unwonted sense of soiemnrty They sat there for a minute or more I enveiooeu In Cimmerian darkness and tombtke silence At last a man in another an-other corner of the room raised his I cinched voice to the tune of He Will Save You and Invited the inhabitants of the world beyond to show your faces just now hen you feel the trumpet touch you speak to the visiting spmt bam me medium otherwise it will not stay They waited again for some manifestation manifes-tation At the expiration of the second period of expectancy a meek sister struck up a n > um cjpfesdive 01 oiiuu oi deep devotion adoration and contrition and tho woman joined In with her conscience I science divided against Itself as to I whether such a method o worship were sacrilege or a sanctmed expression of i I the mot profound faih Tho lat stanza died away in a tremouiig and ioagarawn I out note At that moment three distinct I tare on her knees aroused the woman to g6 t that the critical time had come and she grasped her companions hand jiiu wore ii utiy I What is it What do you want she j asked faintly There were a aeries of Indistinct gasps I and murmurs which gave commonsense common-sense listeners the impression that the ghostly visitor had left part of his breath I behind him in his scramble to reach 1 shores terrestrial At last there floated j up from the depths of the trumpet the I on word Harry Sho emitted a frightened little scream and drew yet nearbr to the man beside her I My husband she walled in a voice made weak by terror Talk to him whispered the man I gavel She fought for composure and spoke again I againHarry she pleaded meekly tell me tel me truly Did you mean what you I said just before you died about my marrying again Do you think that was just right I am very lonely sometimes times you know I After the usual prelude of labored respiration piration the faraway voice sounded clearly room and dlatincly throughout the I I want you to marry at once It said I shall never be happy until you have done BO The lights flashed up with sudden brilliancy I bril-liancy and the woman leaned over atrainst the mans shoulder and very appropriately I ap-propriately fainted The whole bakers I I dozen of them pronounced it the most i remarkable meeting they had ever attended at-tended When the party broke up and tho little band of seekers after spiritual truth naid th usual fe the man who doubted slipped an extra 10 bill into the mediums hands Youve made everything plain sailing for mo from this time o he said gaily and I consider your services cheap at this price Chicago News |