Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 4, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 June 1894 — Page 3

SThr 3?ilsc County frmorrat M- McC. STOOPS, Editor and ProprietorPETERSBURG. - - INDIANA. IN A DBEAM. BY ELU MAC MAHON. •(“Being told unto him In a dream.”)

ICHARD,” was the decisive pronounce ment, ‘is not himself; Richard is hipped. ” They called him Richard when t h\e y chaffed hiiaj Dick, when they addressed him seriously. The man who was speaking looked at the man to whom

lie was speatting. The latter was rolling a cigarette. He Tolled cigarettes superlatively well. EH is neat fingers rarely spoilt a paper •or split a grain of tobacco. He was irolling them now, gently, and slowly, tand very neatly. Indeed, the whole man suggested neatness. From the icrown of his fair, sleek head to the sole of his small, black boot (not a very long way, either), neatness reigned; . But to-night he looked dull, like a bird that was sick or frozen, or had float his mate. The other men noticed Ithis from the moment he appeared. At last one of them, who knew him especially well, had voiced the thought of all the rest in the words just uttered. This man watched him as he uttered them, out of the corners of his own redbrown, close-set eyes. “Richard.” he said again, in the pause which succeeded his first appeal, as the neat fingers rolled and rolled the thin paper firmly and* tightly lif silence, “deliver thy soul. We’re all friends here. What is it, old man? Debt or difficulty?’'—the speaker yawned and -smiled—“Oh, hang both, but speak.” The yellow head bent over the cigarette lifted itself. The owner of the head laid the cigarettes side by side on the table. He swept the surplus tobacco into a rubber pouch; then he 'atood up. Somebody remarking that

whose house I didn’t seem to know.” Be was growing mors fluent as he proceeded, and the silence was encourag^ ing. “Anyhow l heard a noise outside' the door of the room that I was in in this house, because (you know the rum way one gets about in a dream) 1 was by this time in a room. I went out of the room, a queer sort of bedroom, only the bed was upside down and had long white curtains; in fact, I thought the sheets were hung up as curtains on to the lobby outside, and as 1 opened the door it struck full smash against something.” He paused, impressively. “Do you know what it was?” “Haven’t an idea,” said the spokesman of the rest of the jassemblage, languidly. The others said nothing, but a certain quickening of interest was making itself felt. The recounter of dreams waited. “A coffin,” he said, quietly. “Black?” questioned the maq with the close-set eyes, raising his eyebrows. “White,” was the reply, “dead white deal with a lot of brass curlykews sticking out on it The bang of the door toppled it over—it was standing up on end—and started it off tumbling top under bottom down the stairs. There was a long, wide staircase. Look here,” his voice grew quicker, “you never saw such a hideous thing in your life as that coffin tip, tip, tippling down every stair with a bump against the stair-rods as it went down. And I couldn’t stop it, not to save my life. Every time I put out my hand it jumped away. On it went head over heels; ’pon my honor, there’s no other way to describe it, and—■” he paused again. It was evident that w'hat he was about to say cost him an effort— “standing on the lobby was—my sister-, —and—I thought—she followed the— the thing every step down, and that as it went along she—was prodding it with regular delight with a long, ar-row-shaped pin—one of those things girls stick in their hats and bonnets. . I knew the pin, for I gave it to her myself—it’s a silver one, and it glittered as it made little round holes in the side of the coffin. And—I thought—that all the way down I was mad to find out who whs in the coffin. I was quite sure some one was in it; I knew (I don’t know how I knew), but I knew it wasn’t empty. I had to wait till it got to the hall,, but when it bumped off the lowest step on to the hall pavement the lid of the tiling shot off, and there was—” In the very slight pause, a curious, strained rustle came from the auditors. Everyone waited. “There—was, Metcalfe, Tony Metcalfe.”

THE TEL LOW HEAD WAS PILLOWED ON METCALF’S BBEAST.

it was “doocid cold,” some other body stirred the fire vigorously. The flames leapt up brilliantly. The “Canary” •drew over to the fire as if the heat came to thaw his frozen feathers. He stood up with his back lying against the shelf ■of the mantel-piece. Presently some alight color warmed into his face His «yes lighted somewhat Evidently he was making an effort to cast off some depressing influence. “Dick,” said his friend, the man with the close-set eyes, “you’re downright hipped.”' “I’m not,” said the other suddenly; ■“but—I’m—bothered, and — I’m — ap ass. ” He stopped, turned toward the fire, and kicked a live coal which was hanging over the edge of the bar right into the cairn of leaping flames. Then he turned his back again on the grate. “I tell you what” he began, hesitatr ingly, “it’s an odd thing, and I dare say I am a fool, and that you’ll laugh like—like old shoes when I tell you; hut the fact is, I can’t for the life of me get a dream I’ve had out of my head.” He smiled, but he avoided looking directly at any of them. “It was a beastly dream,” he continued with apologetic emphasis; “beastly—and so plain. Good heav■ens—” he stopped. There was a faint grin on one or two faces. Then the man with the close-set eyes interposed. “Tell us,” he said, lying back in his? chair, and speaking with a good deal •of deliberate indifference, “tell us what it was.” “I’ve dreamt the same beastly thing three times running, three times,” with a glance to see what effect, if any, might follow. “Last night, night before, night before,” ticking them off on his fingers. “Oysters, Dicky,” said the man in the armchair without unclosing his eyes. “I thought,” with another husky jerk, “I was somewhere.” The near-set eyes unclosed at this. Their owner glanced up at the neat figure. “By Jove,” he drawled, and there? « was a laugh. “I mean,” continued the first speaker, “that I thought I was in some strange place. It was a house, you know, but

' Dead! exclaimed tae man who had spoken all through. The neat yellow head of his friend nodded. “Dead!" he repeated, huskily, “stone dead. I thought,” his voice grew sharp, “that—my sister—when the lid of the coffin flew off, burst out laughing. and laughed"—he shuddered slightly, “such laHghter. I awake each time with it ringing in my ears." He stopped. Nobody spoke just at first. Then a stout man, Todd by name, began slowly: “I’ve heard it said that in dreams, if one hears or sees anyone laughing it means that they’ll weep sooh. At least, that was what an old nurse we had used to say; laughing’s a sure sign of crying, she used to say;” apparently he was unconscious that the others were glaring at him, for he continued complacently, “she was Irish, our old nurse, and a wonner at dreams.” “Did I say? No I think not, that when I saw Metcalfe dead, 1 suddenly remembered in my dream that he had died from a kick, playing for Old Harrovians.” Sf sudden movement he took a cigarette from the table and began to light it. But his hand shook. Then everybody began to talk, loudly and together, of their experiences in a similar direction. Presently the man with the near-set, red-brown eyes hove himself out of the arm chair. “I’m off,” he said. “Coming my way, Dick?” The two went out of the club together. On the way little was said. Just at parting the smaller man said to his companion: “I daresay I’m a fool, but I wish to God I could stop, Metcalfe playing at Woolwich on Saturday. I say, don't laugh, there’s a good fellow.” “I’m not laughing," said the other, quietly. Then they parted. They met again—on the following Saturday. When one of them got on the departure platform of the Greenwich train at Charing Cross that morning he caught sight of a long yellow bag in charge of a servant. “The ‘Canary’s’ bag,” he said to himabruptly. With a

self, “by Jove! I’d spot the ‘Canary's’ traps anywhere on the surface of the • habitable g-lobe; they’re always so confoundedly swagger, one knows ’em anywhere.” The elegant conveyance in hidebound calf was sure enough the •‘Canary’s” property. He strolled up to claim it a minute later, with Metcalfe and the remainder of the team. They were all going down, it turned out, but Metcalfe and the man with the close-set eyes merely to look on at the match “Dick,” explained Metcalfe as they to6k their places in the train, “was so keen to play that he, right or wrong, chivied me out of it to get my place, and squared it up with Croft” (Croft was captain) “somehow." The man addressed muttered something. Metcalfe was a big. good-hu-mored fellow, as heavy and finely-built as the “Canary” was bird-like. Nevertheless, Metcalfe couldn’t hold a candle to the latter a#a “half-back.” The “Canary” was about the best halfback of his time at Harrow, and, they said .there, one of the six best at Trinity. He was as complacent as possible this morning. Curled up comfortably, like a bird on a perch, in a corner of the railway carriage. One of his beautifully rolled cigarettes was between his lips, and the yellow bag was disposed neatly in the netting over his head. “So that’s how it is,” concluded Metp calfe, "and I’m just going down to look on. Croft gave in at once. Not likely he’d keep me instead of the ‘Canary.’” “How about your knee?” inquired he of the red-brown eyes of the “Canary.” “Fit as a fiddle now,” replied the latter. He stretched out his leg and tapped his heel against the floor and patted the knee with satisfaction. He had strained it slightly some time before. His eyes met the gaze of the nearest ones He smiled. “Tony,” he said, indicating Metcalfe by the sweep of the cigarette. “Tony’s a decent chap. Gave up his plate because he knew I was keen on the match. Decent of him, isn’t it?” Metcalfe laughed a big, light-hearted laugh. The man with the near-set eyes knew no more was to be said. But he looked again at the “Canary,” and the "Canary” smiled more placidly than ever. He talked all the way down to Woolrich like the amiable, chirpy, birdbeing he was. The Old Harrovians won the toss and kicked oft The R. Ms. A. played up as they knew how, but they were a long way behind the Harrovians, and when after half-time they succeed in getting a goal they thought themselves, certainly the on-lookers thought them, rarely lucky. The third 'goal was longer in coming. The ghme fluctuated a lot. Each side had to touchdown. The passing of the Harrovian backs was too much in the long run for the R. A. forwards. -

The “Canary” never played better. . “That chap’s form,” said Metcalfe, “is so jolly fine his size don’t matter a brass pin. He’ll get this goal. I say, look, he’s off for the line.” So he was. Metcalfe and everyone else strained their eyes to watch. The Woolwich lads gathered up gallantly for a last struggle. “But those Woolwich Johnnies are not in it,” said Metcalfe, laughing. “Look at them—floundering already. They’re on to tackle Dick. 1 wish ’em good luck of him. Hullo, eh—what— the ‘Canary’s’ down. Confound this wind”—as his hat was lifted off his head. He rammed it on again. “1 say, what’s up?” The man beside him didn’t answer. He was watching the struggling knot of white legs and dark feet in the distance. It seemed to him that the knot was opening—yes, so it was—and the R. M. A. forwards were getting away. Suddenly there was a cry. The forwards turned back, arrested in full flight * Metcalfe took one more look, so did the other. “Come on,” cried Metcalfe; “he’s not getting up—his knee again, you bet” The two ran straight across the field. Play had ceased. Metcalfe was first to arrive. “He’s fainted,” said a Woolwich man to him as he pushed his way. Metcalfe struggled through. Half a score of voices were shouting: “The .doctoir!”- “Water!” “Brandy!” “Cut his jersey!” The doctor and the man with the near-set eyes pushed through together. Metcalfe was down on one knee. “The flask—in his bag,” he cried to the latter. The other ran like a hare. The doctor made a passage quietly, after the manner of doctors. “Here’s a penknife,” said some one again; “cut his jersey.” The doctor didn’t so much as lift his eyes. He raised the yellow head, on which the hair lay as neat and un ruffled as if its owner were just going in to dinner. The doctor touched the hair with exceeding gentleness. He looked at nothing but a faint bright mark, turning blue already, on the left temple. He lowered the head again. Then he looked up and looked round. “Is there anyone here belonging to him?'’ “I do,” cried Metcalfe Perhaps the doctor spoke; perhaps he didn’t. Nobody knew. Least of all Metcalfe * The man with the red-brown eyes came running up with the flask. He dashed through breathlessly. There was a wide circle On the grass was the small form. The men around looked white Nothing stirred but the sobbing, chilling wind. With the flask in his hand, Metcalfe’s messenger stopped short. The yellow head was lying on Mqtcalfe’s breast, and Metcalfe was crying like a child. The heavy flask fell helplessly from the holder’s hands. The stillness and coldness of death struck into the man’s bones. He looked again down on the sodden grass, he looked again at the blue mark on the smooth brow. He looked again and again at Metcalfe. Words writ in a Book, familiar but unread, echoed in his ear: “His life for his friend.'* And Metcalfe never knew.—Black and White

FASHION LETTER. XoveltlM la Stammer Fabrics—Skirts Short, er, SImtm Still Lw|«—Accordion Plaitlas Much Used—Many Hints on the Season's Styles. [Special New York Correspondence.] The fancy dry goods and importing houses are aglow with a fresh relay ^ w of beautiful

summer nove l't i e s in tran spa rent fabrics, also lorely sheer ere pons, veilings, fayettas, light foulards and a host of fancy a taffeta silks, shot, striped, garlanded, ^ dotted and in charmin g chine effects. The gowns • made of these most attractive fabrics Ure either ''beautifully light in color

or else tney snow very cmc comuiuations of black and white, to which some brilliant color is, as a rule, added. In styles they are merely the perfection of many pretty fancies suggested early in the season. The skirts are shortened to show a glimpse of the daintily shod foot and are not now extravagantly wide, and sleeves remain drooping and excessively full. The highly-popular blouse effect is given to waists designed for every occasion, from a dip in the briny deep to the “Boston dip” in the ballroom. The fastening of these waists is still invisible, whether in front or on the left aide, and the blouse is made of every conceivable material, from gingham to lace aud satin brocade. Exquisite evening dresses of Spanish yellow, golden green, mauve, or rose heart pink 1

silk muslin, are made with accord ion-pla itr e d skirts trimmed with rows of lace insertion, the wa i s t and sleeves also plaited, the silk lining cut low, and either round ( or square, with a finish of a cascadei of lace or al lace-edged bertha of the 4 nl sited silk

muslin. Black silk muslin and chiffon dresses accordion plaited throughout and trimmed with white lace and insertion are among the most tasteful and elegant dresses of the season, whether made high in the neck for day wear, or with the Y-cut bodice for evening. Grenadines in fancy figures on lace-like grounds are made up over shot silk linings. Lace toilets look most fascinating over white watered silk. Opaline silks flounced with tiny flower bouquets, or flower striped, are made up with full skirts and round waists trimmed with buttercolored laces. Very handsome black silk and satin toilets are made with gored skirt with full back, with Eton jacket fronts finished with revers and cape collar of black moire §ilk, the blouse waist beneath formed of some rich or daintily colored fancy silk. The huge Queen Anne puffs on the shoulders are of the moire and the long forearm of the sleeve is of a color matching the blouse, overlaid with net, or banded to the elbow with jetted gimp. In this case, jet edges the revers and the standing collar. . In the midst of all thfc elaboration and dressiness in summer gowning, it still re

mains the fact that plain skirts and severe tailor - made gowns have lost not a particle o f their popularity for general wear. A stylish “vacation suit,” which is a sort of compromise between simplicity and the other ex

made of lawn colored light weighted cloth, with a plain skirt arranged to fall in foil folds at the back, and a plain coat of moderate length turned back in front in wide re vers faced with white moire Under this is a fitted waistcoat of the watered silk fastened with tiny gold buttons and partly concealed by a graceful scarf of lace, tied, and falling in long ends. The old-fashioned shepherdess check is in marked favor this season, both in silk, fine wool, and silk and wool mixtures. Dresses made of this check are decorated either with the inevitable rows of velvet ribbon or narrow gimp, or else with lace upon the bodice alone, the skirt being finished with a narrow bias ruche of the silk. Tailor styles are much liked for the linen and duck suits. The new models have open coat, six-gored skirt with full back, and two or three shirt waists or pfque waistcoats to complete the costume. The sailor hat bobs up serenely, and Is made with both high and low crowns, and wide and narrow brims, to suit all tastes and faces. Silk or chamois gloves accompany the duck nits, and russet tie* are also in order.

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