Show i Ii I Confessions Bride BrideI Of a I Learn Donna Camilla Used Her Hyp Hypnotic notie Power on Me re Ive never b been en hypnotized hypnotized hypnotized-ex- ex except by y you Bob Youre You're the only only only- pi Please ease dont don't be trivial about t this ls dearest Believe me roe I 1 am not the only person who can put you into a trance Somebody S else can has just proved it I maybe Impossible I exclaimed Id never let myself be so weak No man mans man's s swill i will can control my mind and mind and my rnY imagination on I shook my head InI in hon honest t indignation I Dont Don't be e shocked Jane Let Lets Let's s set get at the thc truth about your experience I I wraith up there therein myself didn't see any in the tM loft lott I didn't didn t smell any smoke I saw only the moonlight splotching the floor Think dear Who besides I Donna Camilla knew that you were going to keep watch up there to tonight toI tonight to- to I i iNot night Not a living soul Bob I Then it wits was that grande dame with I IJ the Mona Lisa smirk who put it over Camilla is somo some you my dear Donna I hypnotist believe me J But win why did why did she try toy her I II black art on me Bob Why I I should say she did it this time Just Justas I II I as an experiment Just to find out If she has any power over you Never I Ii i let her know what you Imagined you i I saw up there my dear Never let her herI i I guess that she can hold your attention attention atten atten- I I tion for a minute frightened me i Bobs Bob's earnestness e 1 Why are you so worried about the Incident Bob I asked I If she were to know how bow well wen she I Ihas 1 has l succeeded uc she might use her art art later at the order of Hamilton teis teis' I I see see sec I said And what I saw so sobered sobered sobered so- so i That elegant me considerably old woman never did fit tit into the art artof artof artof of housekeeping for tor the hacienda She Is especially dangerous because she adores She considers him the last of her own ancient line Une of Spanish aristocracy So she will wily do his bidding no matter what it is is Bob Isay Isay I Isay say dear Fight her influence nce Never be b Interested in in her nonsense about miraculous pictures and smoke wraiths of murdered beauties Yes I 1 now We Ve had to have some excuse for getting get get- getting ting Into that loft lott We Ve had to set et the fuse fue Im I'm not blaming you dear But it has certainly been a terrible experience experience experience for tor both loth of us my ray Jove ova It has led to at least one grand dis ills discover cover coven covey hasn't It it Bob Now we are axe positive that nobody around this ha hacienda hacienda hacienda ha- ha can be coaxed to enter that haunted loft at night I get you ou ou said Bob A grand place to ourselves in case this household turns against us as it may any day while the relation between the United States and Mexico is strained The people here will never harm ua when and Don Manuel are around I remarked I But In case of ot war war Bob stopped slopped suddenly and I realized that he had lapsed into one of his states of meditation A vision of my soldier husband looking so hands handsome In his olivo dr drab b uniform came to io me Like many another wife oC of a a. soldier I feared any little war Wal which might ht hap hap- I pen along I feared for myself while I I hoped for tor my country Bob was a good soldier I told myself and his ls soldiering soldiering sol sol- diering abroad had rooted Itself deep in his ambitions I read rend his thought before before before be be- fore he spoke How I wish I could get news the border he said The army anny of ot the United States must be gathering north of the Rio Grande to prevent trouble with fth Me Mexico not to create It You dont don't mind dear if it I sa say I would like to be e doing my bit for Uncle Sam Sail again Say rather that Im I'm proud But you cant can't Join the army Bob Fate has picked up and placed you down here ready here ready for a great part I am secure se secure secure se- se cure If this trouble between the two countries comes to anything thing at all Chance has certainly wished ed something something something some some- thing on me this time my love I cant can't avoid this little secret service stunt I cant can't run away and leave you jou ou to teis He looked at me a long time and then sighed Id give u u. Jut ut lor news from Gods country Just now now- In answer to his Ills wish news came next day And the And the messenger was a a. most surprising one To be continued |