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MERRY CHRISTriA!
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Copyright, KOC, by
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CHAPTER I.
TUB PBOB1.EM.
IHAVB known Donald Donaldso*.
Jr.. ever since he was boru; Indeed,
1 may say, much longer.
There Is an entry nbout him In
i tny diary under date of March 10. 18T7,
and iliat is about four years before h?
aw the light and yearly two years before
I first heard <of cither of his parous
or they of 'each other. In plain
words, he was an Ideal of mine, a subject
of spcculntion'nnd study, n dweller
in iny brain before he had an netunl
ilstcnce, so that he might be a tenant
'of |py heart
Ii- Is singular that two romances,
many mysteries and a very startling
tragedy should hang upon so small and
commonplace a peg as tills which I
shall show yod. Twenty odd years ago
1 made an appointment with Stephen
llackett, then my partner und since
deceased, to meet him in u New York
^ bookstore, choosing the phtoo simply
*" because Itwas convenient. 1 was aheau j
or Iiltn ana or the hour, tnueeu, ami
while waiting I took up a volume entitled
"Psychic Marvels," by an English
writer whom I now perceive to
have been l>oth credulous and mendacious,
a man to believe a good lie and
improve it in thb telling. In those days,
however, I had read little, and the book
appealed to me as a scientlflc presentation
of a subject of great interest and
Importance too often shunned by practical
men and left to be the sport of impostors.
When Haekett arrived, I was sitting
on top of a small steplnddcr on rollers,
a device common in bookshops, while
two polite clerks were vainly endeavoring
to gnln my attention for the purpose
of telling nio that the business of
1 lie establishment was suffering for
lack of that ladder. 1 bought "Psychic
Marvels," and we devoted the evening
to it, Haekett and J, in the library of
my bouse lij Tunhridge, N. .J.
Now, If you please, that was the
cnuse of Donald Donaldson, Jr. If I
bad not suggested the bookstore as a
place of meeting, if that particular volume
bad not caught my eye, perhaps
even if the stepladder had not been
placed handily for me to sit upon,
there would he no story for me to tell.
But some one built the store, and some
one wrote the book, and some one else
was the father of the author, and another
was his grandfather, and so on
back to the monkey who was the ancestor
of them all, not to go further.
Tracing causes Is a famous old amusement
of our race, though we know already
that the whole past of the universe
Is the cause of every blade of
grass, even as that blade Itself is an
essential prop of the whole future. It
la n worthy effort, however, to see oa
much of this vast skein as we can,
and be Is wisest who sees most, provided
that he does not fancy that lit
sees all which exists even in the small
nortton that Is under his eve.
To resume my story. Ifnckett and I
pent n studhms evening with "Pay
cblc Marvels," silting up so late thai
neither of us was tit for business 01
the following day, and we were led t<
rend many other books and to engag<
at Inst in a practical, common sens(
Investigation of an Interesting subject
The firm of Hnckett & Ilnrringtoi
manufactured carpets?still does so. li
fact?and keeps the name, though m;
partner long since closed his enrthl;
account and went to meet a not he
which could uot have been one t
. shame him. I hope my own uiny b
as good, for It must soon be closet]
Tunbrldgo people began to call tu
"old" .Fobn Harrington a matter of te
years ago. However, In the days o
which I am now writing I was a youn
man of forty-two, and Ilnckett was nc
much older. Wo hml made a good hi
of money in our business, and both c
as bad-been fortunate In outside Ii
vestments, so that we felt very secur
ffee time hAd coo* when tttg
<k
to be seen going Into that piece of
woods with a gun.
It took Hackett and me about a jneaf
to discover that genuine psychics art
not found In the edge of the woods be- J
side the beaten path; that tt Is hart^Mn
And tliem even when one knows wMefl
they are, for they lie low, and, like,tk# j
rabbits, they imitate the natnfal -eotc* J
of the surroundings. ?
Yon may accept th)s as a.imKl}'
rule: When your fellow man
by the button of your cogt and "l fe^dfcf
you Into a corner to tail you of a pto*'
phetlc dream or a mysterious psyfhfc
message, he does not bell eve the story
himself. Perhaps he may be trying to
believe It, but no one has to try to belleve
In a real experience of that kind
after he bna had It. He knows. And
the chances ore good tlint be will not
talk of It to his closest Intimate. It la
ever the element of donbt that leads to
talklug.
Our hobby gave to Hackett and me
an excuse for study, an aim In travel
and an opportunity of meeting cultivated
men and women. As It was an
elected bobby and not the result of
congenital mental distortion, we rods
it calmly and w^re never mistaken for
cranks except by cranks. It is true
that some of our earlier experiences
were more or less absurd, but we were
saved from serious error by the business
man's faculty of turning from the
Impracticable to the practical. When
we encountered an Impostor, we
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nfiord to relax the pressure under
which we had labored since boyhood
and to tnko more ease and pleasure tn
the world. But the opportunity to enJoy
is one thing and the power is another.
I had little appetite for amusements,
and Hnekett had none. Wo
were uneducated men, with narrow social
Interests, and, to be brief about it,
we really did not know what to do with
ourselves. Unlike muuy others in the
same situation, however, we knew
what was the matter with us?we needad
mental exercise. This decision we
had reached before the Englishman's
book fell into our hand6 and offered
an acceptable suggestion. If we had
not chosen to investigate psychic phenomena,
the hidden wonders of the human
mind, we should have followed
some other line, with a less definite result
perhaps.
It would be singular if two trained
business men. with thoroughly practi
?1
accomplish anything In such an undertaking.
We approached the subject
without prejudice. When we discussed j
the matter In the light of the blazing .
logs in my library. Ilackett would be 1
the skeptic on a Tuesday evening and
I 1 on a Wednesday. We never agreed
! in those early statics except upon a
statement of the Qrst essential of the
I investigation. As to that, we never
differed. We decided to base our work
upon the wisdom of the old proverb
! which says, "First catch your rabbit, j
and then cook him." There is no doubt
whatever that nearly all mankind have I
tried to cook this particular rabbit be- ,
fore catching him.
' Suppose wo take the psychic problem
in its simplest form, which used to be '
called clairvoyance, and I still think
that that is the best term for it. Is
there upon record one single genuine
case of it. proved beyond doubt? Ilnck!
ett and I read fifty hooks and failed to
find an Instance based upon such evl
dence us we would accept In our business.
Vet where thefe Is so much
smoke there must be a little fire, and,
i using this crystal of popular wisdom
j as a touchstone in the matter, I would
| be willing to assert that one teni
millionth of the labor wasted in basei
less discussion of doubtful facts would
j hnve sufficed to give the world enough
i genuine facts to satisfy all candid
minds.
Have patience with me; I am getting
the philosophy of the subject out
of the way as fast as I can. The essential
point is that Ilaekett and I
went out to catch a real rabbit?in other
words, a human lielng who had had
a genuine "supernatural" message.
We did not care where It came from
, or what It was about or how It was
transmitted so long as It could be
proved that It came and that no known
, organ of this mortal body could have
I : enabled the Individual to receive It.
When I was a boy, I used to hunt I
I rabbits In a piece of woods which
was supposed to be a particularly good
place for them. All youthful hunters
j went there, and as a result (visible to
} nie in these mature years) all sane
| rabbits bad gone over Into another
0 1 county. One day, when the snow bad
' come and the rnbbitB bad put on their
^ winter coats, some Jester set up the
corpse of n white cat in the edge of
the woods in an absurdly conspicuous
^ position. I saw it and blazed away,
? though my common sense should have
told me that it could not t>e a rabbit
because such a preposterously reckless
I rabbit would have been shot long ago.
0 Yet I wasted my powder, and. having
done so, I set tlie crenture up again In
f the same place, and every mother's
son that came that way exercised bis
marksmanship so long as there was
! anything to shoot at And next day, in
. a different spot, bnt eqnally consplcu'
ous. the Joker played the game once
1 more. 1 remember that for a long time
r ? afterward aU the boys jrere ashamed
a * r/
" 1 , ,
promptly charged him up to "profit and
lose" 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 accident
upon the most important information.
We made the acquaintance of a
young physician named Harold Whiting,
who was then and is today one of
the most honest minded men in the
world. I believe that Whiting would
not lie even to himself, and there are
few of whom so much can T>e said. He
was amusing himself with experiments
in the matter of peculiar capacities and
knowledge exhibited by persons in the
hypnotic state, but confessed that he
had found no facts upon which conclusions
of any Importance could be
based.
Wc discovered that his thought had
been turned* into this channel by a remarkable
occurrence which he bad witnessed,
but we had considerable difficulty
in persuading him to say anything
more upon^t^e subject
"There Is a friend of mine, now ?in
New York," said be, "who received a
psj*chlc messoge frqjn his brother, who
was then upon the other side of the
world. -This thing happened under clr- j
eumstances which make doubt 1 tripos- |
sible. 1 was present when the mepsncre ,
was received. I know tho story in all |
its details, but I cannot give you the 1
facts nor tell you the man's name be- ^
cause I gave blm my word that I would (
not disclose them."
Perceiving our disappointment, he
expressed sincere regret, and by way of
atonement he gave us the name of a
young woman In New Haven whom it .
might be worth our while to see.
"I received a letter about her some i
time ago from an Instructor In psychol- j
ogy at Yale, an old friend of mine," j
said he. "My friend and several other
members of the faculty are Investigating
the case, and they regard It as gen- ,
uine and Important. The girl's name is
Dorothy Vaughn. She Is an orphan j
and lives with her aunt, Mrs. Eustls,1
who has had certain occult experiences
herself, as I am told."
He gave us the address of Mrs. Eustls
and the name of his friend. Ills
reference to the fact that unnsual powers
appeared both in the aunt and the
niece led to a general discussion of the
restriction of such powers and their
persistence in families. No one who
has given the subject any study can (
doubt that these traits are handed i
down from generation to generation. |
Often a vague family tradition leads
back to the true psychic whose powers,
weakened by admixture with a com-:
mon strain, reappear to flicker uncertainly
In the present duy.
Hackett seemed to And much matej
rial for thought in this conversation.
ITa /1M nAt AAnMhnin lorcrolv tA it liA. i
lug a man of a slow mind and of few
words, but some days Inter, while we i
were on the way to New Hnven, he
suddenly emerged from a reverie to
say:
"I wonder wbnt would happen If two
of them should marry?"
When I had found out what he was
talking about, 1 agreed with him thnt
the'experiment would bo very Interesting
If there were any way of making
it. Ilnckett suggested thnt we
should go forward Into the smoking
car, and when we were there and he
had smoked a part of a long cigar he
said:
"I don't see why there Isn't."
I replied with the argument thnt two
persons of opposite sexes, possessing
nowers now eommonlv cnlleil occult.
must bo naturally antipathetic, so that
a marriage between them could not be
brought about, for, If this were not so,
the whole human race would Imve become
"psychics" long ago. The clairvoyant
power, not to go further in the
matter, is nn obvious and great advantage
and would certainly hare been
utilized by evolution to the extent of
crowding from the earth all other klucU|
( ,-v;
qj^Ken unless nature bad set up somo
barrier, nnd where should ire
took for it except 111 the realm of thnt
M^pQtlon which we call lore?
'UM w were running Into the station
F Haven, Haekctt remarked that
-light he something in what 1
SJIVit sorry, too," he ndded, "for it
j?<4Mied to uio as If I had nu idea."
T matter of fact this Idea had
%pQ|ex?cn In my mind, and at Intervals
the space of nearly two.years
r^l lid jotted down notes In my diary
WJTOfilng an imaginary child whose
par}*Kt? should both he psychics, but I
tfcal never discussed the subject with
Haekctt. His idea or this experiment |
In heredity was therefore entitled to
the cifaHt of an independent discovery.
? -j CHAF3U$R U, (
rrrow TUF. ncmi EH*a SIDE.
MR. BURNHAM, the instructor
to whom Dr. Whiting had
referred us, proved to be'a
nlonannf ?1,1 *
,?iciiun, nei 1 won
meeting, but we bad no sooner made
known our errand than he became
much disturbed.
"A most unfortunate thing has happened,"
he said. "Since the date of
my letter to Dr. Whiting Mrs. Bustis
has died. Miss Vaughn is in deep
grief and in a very trying position, too,
poor child. Her aunt left nothing but
debts, and?well, some of us are trying
to see what we can do for her. She
hasn't a penny or near relative in the
world, and nobody seems to be comft
tian an ordinary cabinet photograph
ing forward to help her except us, and
we're men, yon see, and it s very embarrassing.
She isn't the sort of girl
iu liiivv nt'ip i rum any one, ami a
looks ns if it might end by her taking
lip some confounded occupation that
she isn't fit for. We are all very blue
iibout It."
I have no mystic power to read the
mind or the heart of another, but 1
perceived clearly enough that Mr.
Rurnhnm was in love with Miss
Vaughn and that she did not tind herself
able to respond. To settle this
point I ventured to say that I had'
heard she was quite pretty.
"Pretty!" echoed Burnhani. "Well,
that's hardly the word, i?l happen to
huve a portrait of her."
And he prutended to forget which
pocket It was In. It was an ordinary
cabinet photograph, but it showed a
most extraordinary face, a dainty composite
of womnnly and childish qualities.
I would not have been able to decide
from this picture whether Miss
Vaughn was 11 fteen years old or twenty-live,
and after my lirst glance I looked
up at Burnlium and asked, "How
old Ik she?"
He laughed.
"You'd bo p8 much puzzled If you
saw the original," he said, and this
proved to be no exaggeration. "The
youth, I think, is In the lower part of
the face. What a pretty mouth and
chin! l)ld you ever see such a pretty,
mouth and chin? There's all the dimpled
sweetuess, all the quick sensitiveness
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
brows. The eyes are deep blue and all !
the coloring exquisite. Her hair is j
liko the gold of Ophir. It may seeiu
bad taste for mo to run on like this,"
he added suddenly, "bat Miss Vaughn's
beauty is such a simple and natural
tiring that one feels no hesitation in
speaking of it. Why, even in her presence
I sometimes find myself?however,
that's neither here nor there. You
asked bow old she was. She'll be
eighteen next week."
"If the young lady's peculinr powers
are of interest to sclenco," said I, "it
^vould Room ns if 801110 flnnnclnl or*
pnngoment might be mad? whereby"?
"We've suggested thnt. but she won't
listen to It." be interrupted. "The
queer part of it In thnt Miss Vaughn
insists thnt she tins no powers which
arc not shnred by all our species. She
bus, though."
We bad reached Burnham's lodgings
by this time, and there we conversed
for an hour or more upon tho subject
of the experiments which had been
mudo In the case of Miss Vaughn.
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[on earth, nor <lo wo d
BUT we are here among tli
ample means for all
enough to take* care ol
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accommodation consu
Interest Paid on
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They seemed to me to pobsoss the
vague and unsatisfactory character
which I had learned to associate with
common fraudulent practice?. The
young lady answered questions concerning
matters cf which she was sup!K>sed
to have no knowledge, peculiarities
of persons wlioiu she had not
seen. Incidents in the lives pf the.questioners
or of their frletidjj. It was nptniile
that she passed into no state of
trance ??r mesmeric sleyp/^Sh^Ybmnihed
entirely normal, not evyn exhibiting
the excessive fatigue'' whfbli usually
follows such manifestations; She did
show repugnance, however, and was
always more pleased when she failed
titan when she suctyedrd. After a so- i
ries of failures she would langli nlmostJ
liysterieallv mill ?l!?tU,?*- ?? *>.i!~?. ?
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lief and delight. ilor. mieccsaco.. depressed
Iter. The hCW t>T them. so far
ns I could learn. were not conclusive,
but there wore some that worn hard to
in u|kiii any natural hypothesis,
atnl they must hmv>: lirni extremely
startling to*lhe Inquirers.
Ah Rtirnhnm roll tinned to speak 1 became
Icsm. hopeful of Miss Vaughn ns u
possible subject of invest Vation, less
interested In her ns a psychic, but fnr
more Interested In her as n woman.
Somehow the words of this llerj* hut
hopeless lover, this poor little thin,
dark, ugly faced fellow, who had no
right to crave n beautiful woman?except
that he couldn't liAlp It?built up
before iny mind's eye a very charming
personality.
; I liUfd thq manor nrpg with Harlfr.
out ^ffcjiso. Her situutlou \vu* certainly
moat lamentable and Involved
no farlit of lier own. Having heard of
this case, we could hardly "pass by
on the other side," ns Ilackelt expressed
it. The fact Is that my partner
had been playing the role of the
good Samaritan in many towns that we
had visited, and mostly to the undeserving,
I am afraid.
We decided that I should call upon
Miss Vaughn, and so I asked Buruham
to secure her permission; but he told
me very promptly that he did not care
to undertake the errand.
"I couldn't He to her," said he. "She'd
have to know the object of your visit
here, and then she wouldn't see you."
Incidentally I learned during this
conversation that Miss Vaughn was rtn
Intellectnal prodigy, having been the
youngest girl ever graduated from
Smith college. Indeed, she would probably
not have been .admitted to that
institution If her age had been correctly
stated, but her aunt had misrepresented
the matter to the authorities.
Her record had been exemplary, both
for scholarship and conduct.
"She might teach." said Burnham,
"but I really don't sec how she's going
to live till we can find her a position."
After leaving Burnhnm's room I went
at once nlonc to the Eustls residence,
whlchv ust have been considered quite
a granu, Suse In its day. A despondent
old woman nnswered my ring and admitted
me Into a chilling, gloomy atmosphere
and eventually Into a small
room at the rear ot' the lmll. It had
the look of neglect, as if it had not been
used in some weeks. My eye was attracted
by a small table unlike' the
other furniture and awkwardly placed
near n window. It was littered with
loose sheets of writing paper, which
were dusty, and some of them were
<?nvor?il with K^rntvls In nr>nr?il na If a
child had played with them.
1 thought that I knew why this table
wna there. Clearly Miss Vaughn's psychic
messages were written with a pencil.
I was displeased. This scrawling
hand looked like tho usual counterfeit.
And yet I would have given my bond
upon the honesty of the face In the
j photograph. Well, we may all be deceived
by a face. I began to regret
having sought an Interview with Miss
! Vaughn, and my mind was deflected
from her to the unknown mau whom
Dr. Whltipg had mentioned. A strong
! inward conviction that that man was
j the two psychic, worth a thousand
| porothy Vaughns to tho cause of science.
aroso to prominence in my con{
sclousness, and I was striving to think
of some means by which 1 could learn
uio uaiuo tt uvu a* TCij yiv?MUV T
poke my own.
1 turned and raw a slight. girlish figure,
all tn black. There was the puzallug,
childish, womanly (ace that the
I picture had shown, the perfectly open
I innocence quaintly combined with a se|
rane wisdom such as { udght faisgln<
in an angel. Yet this serenity wai
whylly Intellectual 1 could #oe that
Vfe S v ': 1
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o all the business of the country. t
ie goo<l people of the county with
reasonable demands, with capital
F all your wants.
ecora, that began years ago; a record
jy fair business methods,
jllcifc your patronage, offering every
itentwith good banking.
Time Deposits.
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the poor girl's body was racked with
| nervousness and apprehension. LoeeI
llncss in this old, decaying house, from
which she could see no way out Into
the' brighter world, had told upon her.
I cannot remember that my sympathy
ever went out so suddenly and -so
strongly toward any other human being.
She had seen that I was looking curiously
at the tabic, and 1 observed that
mm
ft: ^
' p^?T? |raw ^ _ )uk&3EIbSBU Mflr
sue sliuddeJa at the sight of it. T?ft^..
as if the tliihff exerted some sort of
fascination, 4he poor girl advanced directly
townw it, and J heard the pencils
click inj her nervous lingers as she
gathered theui 'up. . r<J
"Miss Vaughn," said I, "It is in my
mind to offer you employment. I have ^
heard that you need It. With this purpose
In view, will you permit me to ask ' 1
you a few questions?"
She sat down in the chair by the table
as if she lacked the strength to
stand. In the few seconds that elapsed
before she answered me her nervousness
increased. She began to mark
upon the sheets of paper with one of
the pencils, though I am sure she had
no consciousness of doing so.
"What Is the nature of this employnrk*xtt+
0" oil A ft oL-a/1
There was a longer pause than be*
fore. I could see clearly enough what
the poor little girl expected. Burnhaui
and others had suggested her peculiar
powers as a means of earning her living,
and she felt thnt 1 had come upon
the same errand. Seeing how she
shrank from that theme, I had not tha
heart to take It up.
"You have heard about me," aha
said. "You think I am some phenomenally
gifted monstrosity. Iteally I am
nothing of the sort. I am just Ilka anj
other girl. 1 can guess things. So can
every woman. My aunt was Interested
In?In thnt subject, and so I did It. 1
am not interested and shall never do It
again."
.It was a pitiful protest, and It carried
the day with me.
"I think you mistake my errand,**
said I as gently as possible. "Have
you ever had any experience in teaching?"
She dropped the pencil and stared at
me.
"We are pianuing to open an evening
Bcnooi in me icwn wnore l live," I
continued. "A great part of the popu>
lation consists of people who work la
my fnctory, the Ilnckett & Harrington
carpet mills. Sotne of these people?
and I nm thinking now of the young
women cspcclully?have lacked educe*
tionn) training In their childhood. We
are going to give them n chance to re*
cover the lost ground. They are obliged
to work in the daytime, hut many ef
them will welcome the opportunity te
study nnd to acquire some simple so*
qompllshinents in the evening. Weave
not slave drivers. Our people do eel
hare to drop exhausted into their beds
as soon ns they have eaten their sup- \
pers."
I I TO BE CONTINUED.]
TlionshtfnV
Two men had fallen ont of the sf*tyfifth
story. As they proceeded downward
one of thein yelled.
"Why do yon yell?" naked his cot?1
wanlon. A
"In order that people may catch m
with their cameras." soplied lbs otbwv
| ?Detroit Free Press.
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