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SEE ABSOLUTE LIFING AGAIN PLENTY OF HELP Evelyn Arthur See is Absolute Lifing again in the Love Temple at 2541 Racine avenue, with the help of' Mildred Bridges, Mona Rees, Mildred's mother and - Mopa's mother. Mildred's father, Stephen H. Bridges, thd wholesale jeweler, is out on the road making moriey to pay the love temple expenses. Perhaps Bridges will be al lowed to stay at the love temple and visit his wife and daughter when he can spare the time to come to Chicago. Yesterday See was m "an ex ceedingly peevish mood and a narrow and iron-barrexl cell. Then came the papers from Springfield with the Supreme Court's "order for his release on $5,000 bail. Mrs. Bridges was the first to know of the arrival of the papers. She ought to have been. She pledged her home or hei; hus band's home that See would not leave Chicago when freed. ' As soon as the papers arrived Mrs. Bridges sent the following note to See: "E. The court order is here; be ready .soon. L." Mrs. Bridges' first name is Lu cille. Mona Rees, the. little four foot ten disciple, Arrived at the jail and saw to it that See was not al lowed to burden himself with his personal effects. Mrs. Bridges arrived in an au tomobile. The RevealCr jumped I with his bundles. Mildred came for her later in another auto. Today See was a revealer at large again, and the rude and somewhat vulgar talking world was excluded from the sacred scene of the reunion. The- front door of the love temple was locked. The back door was barred. The windows were all locked. The curtains -were drawn, ihe electric bells were disconected. Inside everything was just as it used to be. See was Evelyn to the women. The women are .Mil dred and Mona and Felicia and Lucille to him. Felicia is Mrsl Rees. Lucille is Mrs. Bridges. The Prophet is come in to his own again, and no ha.rsh notes from the outside world were al lowed tp bring discord into the family circle. ' The women are overjoyed by the release of See, Mrs. Bridges and Mrs. Rees refused to talk about it, but their happiness was. evuient on their faces. Little Mona Rees was bubbling over with joy. "I am so happy," she cried. "Now everything will be just like it was before Evelyn, was arrest ed by people who could not un derstand him." "Will the practices which were called illegal at the time of See's arrest be continued?" a reporter asked. "There was nothing illegal. We didn't look at things the way. other people did. We lived our in beside her. Mona Rees was left J lives the best way we could. JWe ,