Show I Confessions Confessions' Of a Bride CHAPTER I I Confess the Ouija Board Trick and andAm andAm andAm Am Disbelieved I must mud pave have ave slumped morally under the temptations of 1918 I admitted else why had I been so quick to beg Eloise to conceal the ouija trick fro from Chrys I blushed to think of it for I had been reared to take truthfulness for granted as one tak takes s the air one breathes But lately I had been learnIng learning learning learn learn- ing how one concealment compels an an- other Ever since I had promised Dr not to reveal my adventure in inthe Inthe inthe the U-boat U I had added layer upon layer to my stock of petty deceits until until un un- un- un til I had up an appalling ture And it had all been done in the name of secret service and for the good goodof of the state according to I could not dismantle the pile but I realized that Chr s must be told all about th the ouija farce farce She wouldn't like it she It-she she prefer to hang on to the wonderful mystery of the thing and and Eloise and I would go through a bad hour Coming Corning In from a long meditation in inthe inthe inthe the open air the Sunday after the New Year I hunted u up Chrys She was in the library surrounded by piles of enc encyclopedias encyclopedia's and histories of Spain Chrys dear I said if it youre you're going to be here a little while Ill I'll get Eloise to come down We want to tell you som something Jane Stay out of h her r room Chrys commanded Eloise has bas the flu flushes flushes flushes I she's she's quarantined quarantined and and delirious delirious- I flew upstairs I I new some something hing about the flu flu even even if all of my patients patients patients pa pa- had died I wanted to nurse Eloise but Mother Lorimer had succeeded succeeded succeeded suc suc- in getting back our old nurse Mrs Chapin And now my please love keep o out t of this wing of the house Mother said as she kissed me and sent me away Then I returned to Chrys and told her all an about the ouija fake Chrys couldn t be convinced at all She was not even angry She just seemed to pity Eloise and me Cant you understand Jane that Eloise never never could have pushed the ouija pointer around as fast all as s it flew the other day unless she had been in the power of the control contro Ive tried myself to spell out words on the board as fast tast as you do in a I acknowledged but I cant can't manage it it No novice can can and and no skeptic I I Chrys' Chrys voice was positive positive Ill admit that Eloise has a good story in fact I verified the part about the queens Inthis in inthis inthis this history but I insist that the control control control con only used Eloise as asta aa a medium Oh la la la I should think that her I confession upsets your whole theory I objected On the contrary I think the queen of Spain never could have come corne in touch with us except through Eloise Eloisel Spirits have great difficulty In establishing establishing establishing lishing connection with this world Remember Remember Remember Re Re- member what you know about electricity elec elec- it it has existed forever but we had to develop proper Instruments before before before be be- fore we could talk by phone And wireless wireless wireless wire wire- less instruments Instrument must be tuned to each other So in psychical communications some very sensitive are often otten required d The control the other night was new to me evidently Evi Evidently evi- evi vl- vl dently Eloise established the only line Une through which she could communicate I ISee iSee See Far be It from me to argue with a fanatic For sheer obstinacy give me mea meI mea a mystic I said to myself At any rate I had owned up Then It came carne to me with a shock I that Bob and Chrys are twins with similar characteristics Once Bob Bobis I IIII is III possessed of ot an idea heaven earth and a war in Europe cannot shake him loose from it He would have to emancipate emancipate emancipate eman eman- himself in his hili own time and way whether his obsession were love or or Jealousy To fo b be continued Copyright 1919 by the Newspaper Enterprise Enterprise Enterprise En En- Association tIon I |