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PAGE SIX OSHAWA, » A ONTARIO, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1922 ' ~ ER . At the "Villa Rose" BY A. B. W. MASON "Yes. it will be better that we dine quietly together in a place where there is no noise and no crowd and where no one knows us,she sald, and she looked up the time-table, "There is a train back which reaches Aix at 9 o'clock," she said, "s0 we need 'not spoil Servettas's holiday." "His parents will be expecting him," Helene Vauquier added. Accordingly Servettaz left for Chambrey by the '1.60 train from, Aix,and later on in the afternoon Mme. Dauvray and Celia went by train to Annecy. In the onewom- ans mind was the queer longing that "she" should appear and speak to-night; in the girl's there was a wish passionate as a cry. This shall be the last time," she said to hefyelr again and again--"the very ast." Meanwhile Helene Vauquier, it must be held, burnt carefully Adele Tace's letter. She was left in the Vila Rose with the charwoman to keep her company. The char- woman bore testimony that Helene Vauquier certainly did burn a letter in 'the kitchen stove, and that after she had burned it she gat for a long time rocking herself in a chair, with a smile of great plesure upon her face, and now and then moistened her lips with her tongue, But Helene Vauquier kept her mouth sealed. CHAPTER XVII. The Afternoon of Tuesday. Mme. Dauvray and Celia found Adele Rossignol, to give Adele Tace the name which she assumed, wait- ing for them impatiently in the gar- den of an hotel at Annecy, on the Promenade du Papquier. She was a tall lithe woman, and she was dress- ed, by the purse and wish of Helene Vauquier, in a robe and a long coat of sapphire velvet, which toned down the coarseness of, her good looks and gave something of elegance to her figure. "So it is mademoiselle," Adele be- gan, with a smile of raillery, 'who is so remarkably clever. "Clever?" answered Cella, looking straight at Adele, as though through she saw mysteries beyond. She took Since for the last time it had got to be played, there must be no fault in the playing. For her own sake, for the sake of Mme. Dauvray"s happiness, she must carry up the part at once. it off to-night with success, The suspicions of Adele Rossignol must obtain no verification, She spoke in a quiet and most serious voice. "Under spirit-control no one is clever. One does the bidding of the spirit which controls." "Perfectly," said Adele, Meious 'tone, see to it, ing and appear before us." "I am only the living gate by which the spirit forms pass from the realm of mind into the world of matter," Celia replied. "Quite so," said Adele, comfortably. "Now let us be sensible and dine, We can amuse ourselves with mademois- elle's rigmaroles afterward." Mme Dauvray was indignant, Cella, for her part, felt humiliated and small, They sat down to their dinner in the garden, but the rain began to fall and drove them Indoors. There were a few péoplé dinning at the same hour; but none near enough to overhear them. Alfke in the garden and the dinning room. Adele Tace kept up the same note of ridicule and disbelief, She had been carefully tutored for her work. She was able to cite the stock cases of exposure--"les freres Davenport," as she called them, and Mr. Slade. She knew the precau- tions which had been taken to prevent trickery and where those precautions | had failed. Her whole conversation | was carefully planned to one end, and to one end alone, She wished to produce in the minds of her conpanions so complete an im- pression of her in a ma- "I only hope you will mademoiselle, that some amusing spirits contrel you this even- Eusapia Palladino scepticism that it [} would seem the most natural thing in the world to both of them that she should imsist upon subjecting Celia to the severest teats. The rain ceased, and they took their coffee on the ter race of the hotel. Mme Dauvray had been really pained by the conversation of Adele Tace. She had all the mis- sionary zeal of a fanatic. "I do hope, Adéle, that we shall make you believe, But we shall, Oh, I am confident we shall." And her voloe was feverish. . "I am not unwilling to believe," she said, "but I cannot. I am in- terested--yes. You see how much 1 have studied the sbuject. But I cannot believe. I have heard stories of how these manifestations are pro- duced--atories which make me Jaugh. I cannot help it, The tricks are 80 easy. A young girl wearing a black frock which does not rustle-- it 4s always a black frock, Is it not. because a black frock cannot be seen in the dark?---carrying a scarf or veil, with which she can make any port of headress if only she is a lit- tle clever, and shod in a pair of felt- soled slippers, is shut up in a cabinet or placed behind a screen, and the lights are turned dwn or out' Adele broke off with a comic shrug of the shulders. "Bah! It ought not to deceive a child." Celia sat with a face which would grow red. She did not look, hut none the less she was aware that Mme, Dauvary- wag gazing at her with a perplexed frown and some return of her suspicion showing in her eyes. Adele Tace was not con- tent to leave the subject there. "Perhaps," she said, with a smile, Mile. Celie dresses in that way for a seance?" "Madame shall see to-night," Celie stammered, and Camille Dauvary rather sternly repeated her words. "Yes, Adele shall see to-night, 1 myself will decide what youn shall wear, Celie," Adele Taco usually suggested the kind of dress which she would prefer, "Something light in color with a train, something which will hiss and whisper if mademoiselle moves about the room--yes. and I think one of mademoiselle's big hats," she said, "We will have mademoiselle as modern as possible, so that, when the great ladies of the past appear in the coiffure of their day, we may be sure it is not Mlle. Celie who rep- resents them." "I will speak to Helene," said Mme. Dauvray, and Adele Tace was content. There was a particular new dress Why Buy an "1f°? it ou don't touch the open coil in an exposed element of your Electric Range open of an with a fork or spoon, ne] It] don't spill grease or let syrup boil over on the element, --If you don't clean the open coil of an exposed element with a wet cloth or don't let dirt into it--it may work all right and it may not burn out or short-circuit. But if you have a tected Elements there McClary's Electric Range with Pro» will be no "ifs""--- Nothing can touch the coils in a McClary's Protected Ele- ment--neither dirt nor grease can get into them. McClary's Protected Element takes the "If" out of the Electric Ra: nge. WAIT! Are You Anticipating the Parchasing - A Suit, Coat, Skirt or Dress. Carpets, Rugs or ! Boys' Suits Girls' Dresses, etc. ? 2 ? Wait Till Announcement In Tuesdays' Paper! "i of which she knew, and it was very desirgble that 'Mile, Celie phoptd | wear it to-night. For one thing if | Celie wore 'it, it would help the | theory that she had put it on be- cause she expected that night a lover; for another, with that dress there went a pair of satin slippers which had just come from a shoe- maker at Aix, and which would leave same prints as the gray suede shoes which the girl was wearing now. Celie was not greatly disconcerted by Mme. Rossignol's precautions She would have to be a little more careful, and Mme. de Montespan would be a little longer inrespond- ing to the call of Mme. Dauvray than most of the other dead ladies of the past had been; but that was all. She was however, really troubi- ed in another way. All through dinner, at every word of the conversation, she had felt her reluctance towaljd this seance swell- fng into a positive disgust. More than once she had felt driven by some uncontrollable power to rise up at the table and cry out to Adele: "You are right. It is trickery. There is no truth in it." But she had mastered herself. For opposite to her sat her patroness, her good friend, the woman who had saved her. The flush upon Mme. Dauvary's cheeks and the agitation of her manner warned Celie how much hung upon the success of this last seance. How much for both of them. - And in the fullness of that knowl- edge a great fear assailed her. She began to be afraid, so strong was her reluctance, that she would not bring her heart into the task. "'Suppose I foiled to-might because I could not foree myself to wish not to fail!" she thought and she steeled herself against the thought. To-night she must not fail. For apart altogether from Mme. Dauvary's happiness, her own, it seemed, was at stake too. "It thust be from my own lips that Harry learns what I have been." she said to herself, and with the resolve she stremgthened herself. "I wili wear what you please," she sald with a smile. "I only wish Mme. Rossignol to be satisfied." "And [I shall be," said Adele, if id She leaned forward in anxiety. She had come to the real necessity of Helene Vauquier's plan. "If we abondon as quite laughable the cupboard door and the string across it; if, in a word, mademoiselle consents that we tie her hand and foot and fasten her securely in a chair. "Such restraints are usual in the Sxperiments of which I have read. 'as there not a medium called Mlle. Cook who was secured in this way, and then remarkable things which I could not believe were supposed to have happened?" "Certainly I permit it," said Celie, with indifference; and Mme. Dauvary cried enthusiastically: "Ah, you shall believe to-night in wonderful things!" Adele Tace leaned back. She drew a breath. It was a breath of relief. "Then we will buy the cord in Aix," "We have some, no doubt, in the house," said Mme. Dauvray. upon the soft mould precisely the] these matters the personal equation counted, Men who might, perhaps, have been able to tle knots from which she could not get free were always too uncomfortable and self- conscious, or too afraid of hurting her white arms and wrists, to do it, Women, on the other hand, who had no compunctions of that kind, did not know how. It was nearly eight o'clock the rain still held off. "We must go," said Mme. Dau- vray, who for the last half-hour had been continually looking at her watch, They drove to the station and took the train, Once more the rain came down. but it had stopped again he- fore the train steamed into Aix at nine o'clock. "We will take a cab," said Mme, Dauvray "it will save time." "It will do us good to walk, mad- ame," pleaded Adele. The train was full. Adele passed quickly out from the lights of the station in the throng of passengers and waited in the dark square for the others to join her. It is barely nine. -A friend has promised to call at the Villa Rose for me after 11 and drive me back in a motor car to Geneva, 80 we have plenty of time. They accordingly walked up the hill, Mme. Dauvray slowly, since she was stout, and Celle keeping pace with her. Thus it seemed nat- ural that Adele Tace should walk ahead, though a passer-by would not have thought she was of their com- pany. At the corner of the Rue du Casino Adele waited for them and said quickly: "Mademoiselle, you can get some cord, I think, at the shop there," anda she pointed to the shop of M. Corval. Madame and 1 will go slowly on; you who are the young- est will easily catch us up." Celie went into the shop, bought the cord and caught Mme. Dauvray up hefore she reached the villa. "Where is Mme. Rossignol?" she asked, "She went on," said Camille Dau- vray. "She walks faster than I do." They passed no one whom they knew, although they did pass one who recognized them, as Perrichet had discovered. They came upon Adele waiting for them at the cor- ner of the road where it turns down toward the villa. "Is it near here-- the Villa Rose?" she asked. "A minute more and we are there." They turned in at the drive, closed the gate behind them and walked up to the villa. (Continued on page 8) --- SEES SO MUCH OF THEM New York Correspondent: Fifth avenue bus conductors are skillfully trained in courtesy. Rarely do they lose their temper. And they are E---- ete tl SA---------------- forced to take much back-talk., So one may be forgiven for saying, as a lady turned to look at him coldly as she mounted the tiny stairs: "Lady, legs ain't no theat for me." There is one good thing about war. 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