Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 15, Number 38, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 March 1885 — Page 6

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Called Back BY HUGH CONWAY.

CHAPTER TIL

was

At times

worse.

The

I

that in the short

time she would hare entirely forgotten me, was groundless. She knew me and welcomed me. My poor Pauline! If

fact

I

doubt if we shall ever

FOR

Ceneri had made no sign,learnhas

Macari sent his promised information. The latter, after his last malicious words,

I

dread more

than

blame myself for not having

the where

doubtless

to tell mo.

•an

almost the

I

care to see no friends.

I

limes when

I

felt sure this would ever be

I

I

to appreciate

Jtoginning

I

bouses in the suburbs are in bud. Ytis

fortunate that

1 felt, in

PEOPLE.

I

could but find the way to bring those truant senses back once more! For months and months nothing of importance occurred. If my love'smind was, as Ceneri predicted to be gradually restored, the process was a tedious one.

A

I

tedious one.

thought her better—attimes

is there

she

sits in her

aess speaking only when spoken to kut willing to come with me anywhere: do anything

I SUREST,

express my

would

wait without a murmur, if needs be, ML our hair has grown gray.

hare this poor consolation—whatever the effect of our mav have been upon my life,marriage it has, at least, sot made my wife's lot a sadder one. Her days

am sure must be brighter

Hian those when she was under the supervision of that terrible old Italian woman. Priscilla loves her pets her like a

child whilst

thing

I

can which

I

«ucli

ks. Without that taste life would indeed bo colorless.

that

I

fceart to leave Pauline alone and soek society on my own account.

many hours every day reading and studying, whilst

«ame

I

me,

am almost entirely debarred from

Scaring the sound

of

as

I

One morning

LEM 1

IC

Pauline and

1

alio

was

influence

ssp»teof

ality. he gave

ed in spite

she

my

to love

love it can under­

stand how great a deprivation this is to me.

as

I

say

that he

visit to bode no good to me. What did I

care why he

came?

I

a purpose. With this end in view, what mattered the tool, if I

I

see

I

tQ

CLAIMING RELATIONSHIP. Yes, she was glad to see me back! In

glad to see me back! In

ber uncertain clouded she welcomed me. My great fear, that in the short

Although

I

I

toward

nor

wish for.

Teresa, who might thrown some light on the subject,have has disappeared.

asked

she

was to

®utdoctor

be found:

he would have declined

So the days go

do is, with

insure that

on. All

I

I

Priscilfa'S assistance, to

py as can be, aud hope that time and

•are

may at length restore her. We are still at Walpol intention has been to

®ot

shuddered

I

what should it

to his

my poor girl ismade as hap­

"NOW,

"with

)le

street. My

your permission

I

DU

-UY

"He

I

live

life of a hermit.

I

am,indeed,

Warned for all my old ac-

uaiiiianccs.forsaking

2ne

Some who have seen

Pau-

attribute my lack of hospitality to Jealousy: some to other causes: but, jet.

believe no one knows the truth.as There are times when

I

feel

I

bear my grief—times when

feel tliat, in spite of all,

my love for my wife, hopeless as it is, lias made me a better and even a hapjrier man.

I

AT

can sit for hours looking

her lovely face, even as

ing at

I

imagine that face lit up with bright intelligence, as once it must have been. I long to

"that

know what can have that

dark curtain over her mind,drawnpray

told me your name."

"Nothing

UI

seems

efforts, and once or

twice she has takeu my hand and raised It to her lips as

if in

me

•feature

as a child

poor recompense, put

may

love jts father, as some weak helpless

may love its protector.

is a

This

I

am thank-

fill even for this. So, in our quiet household, the days til

myseir

in which he

marshale

"Yes

it

was spent for Italy.

by

had gone

fancy mav give her

pleasure as she is capable of feeling. Sometimes, not always,

I

or

I AM

fond of

my wife sits in

room silent unless

the

I

mark to her. It

address a re­

is a matter of great grief

music.

sovereu that its

1

in some way

»ut

soon dis-

effect upon Pauline was

trejudicial. The

notes which

soothed

seemed to irritate her

and make her uneasy. So, unless she is

somewhere with old Priscilla and

I

sat alone

I

that he was from Geneva.

was

I

I

he could

feared noth-

say

against

_isliking

YET M:\NM

my wife,

the man,

only link between

HER

past: Oeneri

I

ID R-' SEE

the

the

shook my head aadjy.

"Poor

girl!

was told

Hiat a gentleman wished to see me. He gave the servant no name, but Instructed her to

I

know it must be Macari. My first impulse

to send back word that

would not

see

I

him. Again and again,

jlnce our last meeting, his words had •ome back to mo—those words which binted at something In Pauline's past .which her uncle had an object in conling. But each time

but

I

felt sure

again: this man

"v

TOV.urn

ing

TOY WL'R

APPEAHUK O

late

aayfchin respect­

Tim

one

PERSON

thai I tv

'ate OI

GESTING

IMD

her mind

to he might

TERHli HAUTE SATt

the hearty grasp meant his

my hand,

my

I

done." "Is he dead?

was little

or

no change in her condition. Hour after kour

whenever, alas!

wish

in Trds

Each

she can

comprehend. Poor Pauline! The greatest doctors in England have Been her.

says

"Pauline,'

me?* She looked

wanted him for

could keep it

from turning in my hand and wounding me—and this was to be seen.

met him with a greeting almost as cordial as his own: I

seated, rang for wine and cigars.be "Youthen

kept my promise,

Mr. Vaughan,"have he said, with a smile. Yes.

1

trusted you would do

you

ave

"Only

le you

stay?"

Until

I

am called abroad again.

Things have gone wrong with us were.

I

must wait until the atmosphere has quieted down."

I

looked at him inquiring'y.

"I

fancied you knew

trade,"

can think of."

Other are not free.

for them.countries

the same, but nis last

I

hear." "Well,

he

said. I suppose you are a conspirator—I dont use the word offensively it is the only one

Yes. Conspirator—regenerator— apostle of freedom, whatever you like." But your country has been free for some years."

I

asked, startled,

"Bead

apathy and listless-

to all of us.

It paid

for the keep of many a red shirt, armed many a true Italian. All our fortune was spent

the trustee.

I

blamed him. When

have nevei

I

knew where it

freely forgave him."

"Let

I—well,and I do every­

us say no more about it, then."

"I

don't quite look upon it in that light. Victor Emmanuel's government is now firmly established.

and will

Italy is free,

grow richer eveiy

Mr. Vaughan, my

year. Now,

idea

is

I

gratitude. She is

this.

believe,

I

be­

lieve, if the facts of the case were laid before the king, something might be done.

if

I,

amount paid into his hands

Ceneri."

His tale

WAS

his scheme

arv.

liave not the

I

was

I

spend

really

the sake your wife to join me

I

am alone, the piano is unopened the music-books lie unused. Only those who lore music

by

plausible, and, after all,

was

not altogether vision-

beginning to think he might

be my wife's brother,

and tnat

Ceneri had, for some purpose of his own. concealed the relationship.

"But I

have plenty of money,"

"But I

have

I

said.

not," he replied, with

frank laugh.

-to

"I

me

a

think you ought for

In the

matter."of "I must take time to consider it." "Certainly—1 am in no hurry.

in the meantime get my papers and petition in order. And now may I

sister

Y*

She will

be in

I

recognize

am, of course, much her senior and from the age

of

know

was

mainmg

FROM

whom it

whose

iUkbv

ANY

chance,stimu­

JIUMIKTV,

and.perhaps,

OY SUG­

no nutter how dimly, scenes

events in which he must have playada part. So thinking,

I

iie man should be admitted,and,morerrer that he Jhould be brought faCE to face with

I'M

apeak to her

jven old

tid her

W I 'ck

Iropped thriauts of memory. lie eotowdiuy

I

spoke

In

decided that

ber

line. If he wished to do

nesaiu, uo you refy^

at

Pauline,thanlong*

so.

I

in

EI

a couple of days."

Have

you

been long

in

England?"

SO

was delighted

used

Tqere

I

work

Our poor friend Ceneri did

day's work

W

I

cannot give you

particulars but a few weeks after you left Geneva he was arrested in St.Petersburg. He lay in prison for months awaiting his trial. It has come off,

what has happened to him?"

"What

the same thing.

She may recover but each tells me the recovery would be made more possible if the exact circumstances which brought about the calamity were known. These,

always happens—our poor

friend is at this moment on his way to Siberia,condemned to twenty years hard labor in the mines."

Macari was in the room,she neve ed away from him.

Pauline

no particular love

as

his fate.Ceneri,bore "And you escaped?"

said

"Naturally,

or

I

should not be here

smoking your very

I

was

good and

ping your capital claret."cigars I

of my family? He dia not

tell you my true name any more than he told you his own? He did not tell vou it

was

March, and that Pauline and

are brother and sister?" I

was astonished at ment. In the

cannot

I

history as briefly

could look­

a picture or a statue.

I

try to

OF

his larra

and

I

one day it may fall aside and

I

aee her eyes responsive to my own.may

... this announce-

face of

the doctor'sasser­

tion that this man had bgfen in love with Pauline, I

did

wish that

Kenyon had never led me inside that church at Turin

but

there are other

not for a moment belie v#

was

I

you

property

to

heard

sip­

seemed

follow-conspirator?have

Mr. Vaughan,"

said the latter,

I

business matters with

you.

I

aluill surprise you."

"Let

a house and

furnish it. But why? Pauline could

look after it—would not be interested in it—it would not be home. So we stay on at my old lodgings and

me near what you have to say."

"First

of all

I

must ask you

Ceneri told you about myself?"

be

er occasions. I took care that Pauline should always be with us. It

ed

..cron

breat returnini

him with

IOM,

eyes

hi

curious wonder, but her

I

AS

one in doubt.Hetookshook herhand.I

that she seemed to shrink from stinctively.

"Poor

begged him to

it is since we ha

but you cannot have forgotten Her large troubled eyes were on his face but she made no recognition.

"Try

and think who it is, Paul

s^d-

SHE

restored, it woube

through my visitor. So when ne took

his leave

parted for the day.

I

disgusted at the indifference

with which ne spoke of his friend's misfortune. If it seemed horrible to me to think of the man working in the Siberian mines,

was

I

and you on Dehali

of your wife, were to make it known that Ceneri'S appropriation of our fortunes for purposes had left us inniless,patriotic a large portion of the money, not all, would be freely returned to us. You

must have friends in England

who would assist you in gaining theeai of King Victor.

I

have friends in Italy.

Garibaldi, for instance, would vouch

t5r.the

"No

fear she will not

me.then

We have spent very

days together

few

since we were children.

I

eighteen have been plot­

ting and fighting. Domestic ties are forgotten under such circumstances." I

was still far from putting any faith In the man besides, there were his words on

a former

occasion

counted for. "Mr. Macari,"

"Excuse

thought of

decided they were only the maliious insinuation of a disappointed man, rho having failed to win the woman he vod, wished to make lib favored rival ispicious and unhappy.

Some day

hesitated before

giving instructions for his admittance.

was the

I

to be ac­

I

said.

me—March is my name."

"Then,

Mr. March,

I

will do so."

"You

will then, at least, explain your

words when we parted at Geneva?"

I

will ask pardon for them and apologize, as I

hastily and

thoughtlessly, but having forgotten,

I

am, of course unable to explain them."

1

said nothing, feeling uncertain whether he was playing a deep game with me or not "I know," he continued, "that I

was

furious at hearing of Pauline's marriage.

her state of health Ceneri

should never have allowed it—and then, Mr. Vaughan, 1

rank."win Any reply

okl days,

PAIKMTW*—-anythingofthat

up and retrace those

had set my heart upon

marrying an Italian.

'Had

covered. my dream

I

might

was

room and greeted me

ri$h what I knew to tp juMmined oorli-

she re­

was

that her beauty

would her a husband of the

highest

should have made was

prevented 6y the entrance of Pauline.

I

intensely anxious to see what effect the appearance of her eo-c&Ued brother would nave upon her.

Macari row and stepped toward her.

in breathless impatience,

AJ

I

girl, poor girl!" he said.JI

I

I PAULINE

to hear her sjin

unless compelled to do so.Sm {at £KW

she employed it now showed

must, in

some dim way,

connehe

was another thing

I

notid

have said how seldom it

is

He

satneafr.

and after a few more words to hejddressed his remarks exclusively tQe. All the while

I

could see my wire ^fil­

ing him with eager, troubled several times,an indeed,

I

I

could

almostperd-

ed myself that there was an expreon of fear in eyes. Let them exss fear, hate,her trouble, even love, so loa? I

see the dawn of returningja-

son in them!

I

began to think tqif

I

him, with no assumed manner,pr©d

After his departuro Pauline fell

ed

up and down the

will enter on

am afraid

what

RF

I

pay

MJ

as

I

can.

I

am known

by many names abroad, but my right name is Anthony March. My father and Pauline's married Dr. Ceneri's sister. He died young, and left the whole

to his

^IFE,

abso-

MfiuttafwwtaJbKeteofSS

money, Mr. Vaughan?"

If

"Dr.

Ceneri tola

looked witmv

patience to to-morrow,forwardhe

I

when wqld

us another visit. The man ad BomethMg to get out of me, Wt certain

should see him again.sol

He came the next day, and the nit, and many other days. It was cleame was determined to ingratiate

and

I

every plot or political event of the ist ten years, and was full of original amcdotes and stirring experiences. He fought under Garibaldi through the oli

whole of the Italian campaign. He liad known the interior of prisons,and some of his escapes from death had been marvelous.

I

tuin®WUvwy«.in?inm^Srt ttaCTrt histaler SSXrh I m)3elf

had no reason to doubt misis smile

-tru8tedtbemanhimi!lf-

the only wish

of mine the poor child had ever shown even a mute disinclination to comply with. She never spoke in Macari presence, but her eyes were scarcely ever turned from him. He seemed to have a kind of fascination for her. When he entered the room

I

could hear

her sigh, and when he left it she breathed a breath of rolief and every she grew more restless, uneasy,and,day

unhappy. My heart

smote me

as

I

that the crisis of her life

guess­

causing her pain but,at all

cost,was I determined to persevere.

I

felt

was

fast draw­

ing near. One exiling, pfter dinner, as Macari and

I

sat over our claret,

AUD

with her troubled eyes

Pauline,

fixed,

as usual,

on my guest, was reclining on the sofa a little way off, he began to relate some of his military adventures. How Once, when in imminent peril—his right arm

arm not strong euough to wield the rifie with the bayouet fixed—he had taken the bayonet off, and holding it in his left hand, had driven it through the heart of an antagonist. As he described the deed,he suited the gesture to the word, and seizing a knife which lay on the table, dealt a downward blow through the air at an imaginary whitecoated Austrian.

I

heard

a deep

I

see niy

very shortly if you will

wait." "Is she better, Mr. Vaughan?"

sigh behind

turning,

I

faint.

I

will

me,

only a fainting fit. Your fierce

gesture must have frightened her." Then I returned to my wife's bedside, and began the usual course restoratives.

TET

success.of

without

I

must ask yon

now to tell me the particulars

of

the

shock which deprived my wife of her full reason." His face grew grave.

"I

I

FFILM I N JVLAIL.

er and more apid

CHAPTER VIII. CALLED BACK.

write this chapter with great reluctance. If

I

awoke, and,as

1

to her and again called her

to ill

again very soon—to-morrow, if poss». He readily promised to do so,

can hope he was as satisfied th the result of our interview

reach

anjre

TO

a restless state. Several times

guard

I

I

her pressing her hand to her foreh/dw She seemed un&ble to sit still. Nowtid again she went to the window and

1

street.

I

pai

attention to her actions, although or twice I

saw her turn her eyes to

me with a piteous, imploring glanc believed that something—some memory in connection with Macai— was striving to force itself to her elided brain, and

^hiait—let

is laugh ring naturally—I could not

be as pleasant as he could make his

An ordinary three-story house of the usual London type.

A

I

I

knew,

She answered not.

I

White as

a statue she lay there, her soft breathing and the faint throb of pulse only telling that she was alive.her

She lay there

without sense or motion, whilst

I

chaf­

ed her hands, bathed her brow, endeavored to recall her to life.and

Even

whilst doing so my heart was beating wildly.

felt that the moment had

come that something had brought back the past to her, and that the fierce rush with which it came had overpowered her.

I

cannot now.

could scarcely dare to put my

wild belief in words, but it was that when Pauline again opened her

had.the fullest faith

In. So it that I did not send for a doctor,was

that after awhile

own attempts to awaken consciousness that I resolved to let her lie in that calm, senseless until she awoke of her own accord.statetook

I

tween my fingers that I might feel every beat of ner pulse. I laid my cheek against hers that

I

sound of every

might catch the

breath-^AND thus

I

ness,was I

hair

*1 FELF

her

I

A

saw

drawn deeper,

look of

life steal over her face and,

I

saw what,

expected Mr.

is worse

I

Va

waited.

And then Pauline-my wife—came back to life—she rose in the bed and turned her face to mine and in her eyes

by the mercy of God,Ishall

never again see there!

could make my tale con­

nected and complete

passed her hand across here- ft records, "if some of my experiences head, then once more* Bhook herjd. have been strange one's all save these "Aon me ricordo" she murmureqn, can be explained: but these never will, as if the mental effort had exhfed

ne

herT sank, with a weary sigh* a tion. chair.

without

I

dark it was?

it,Lshould

nrefer to say nothing about the events

FL

-in Tf

QAMFI

nf mv ftTnenenees

ver can be explained to my satisfac-

saw her eyes

shuddered as a freezing wind

Italian. It was a tongue she massed over me.if It was not madness

in them, neither was it sense. They

nhe W6re dilated

to the utmost extent: they

were fixed and immovable, yet

visitor with Italy. It was to mebw they saw absolutely nothing that nieir gleam of hope. NERVes conveyed

I

brain. All

was thatu- would return

line raised eyes to any one's|e fainting fit, were at an end. It was but to-dayher

during the whole jie

DEAR

I

MY

knew

far more pitiable than her former one

I

spoke to her called her by name but she took no notice of my words. She seemed to be unaware of my presence. She looked ever, with strange fixed eves, in one direction.

Suddenly she rose, and,before

interpose

by

NO

name en-

treating, even commanding her to return.

sound of my voice seemed to

her ears. her critical state.for so I felt it to be,In

I

ing

as

I

was

shrank from restrain­

by force, thinking it would be

her

better to leave her free to go as she listed of course accompanying her to

her against evil.

caught up my hat and a large cloak both of whicn were hanging in the hall: the latter

I

wrapped around her as she

walked, and managed to draw the hood over her head. She made no resistance to this, but she let me do it without

view. She turned her eyes neither to the left nor to the right—neitherup n?r down. Not once during that walk did

I

see

them move, not once did

thought or

I

mejif

possible. He did he could to te himself agreeable,all

She passed out of and, without a moment'sWalpolestreet, hesitation, turned at right angles and went along the straight broad road. Along this road for more than half a mile she led me, stopped before a house.

house differing

very little from my own and thousands of others, except that, by the light of the street lamp,

I

could see it looked ill

cared for and neglected. The windowpanes were dusty, and in one of them was a bill stating that this desirable residence was to let, furnished.

marveled as to what strange freak of mind could have led Pauline to this untenanted house. Had any one she had known in former lived here? If so, it was, perhaps,days

a hopeful sign

that some awakened memory had induced her to direct her unwitting steps to a place associated with her earlier days.

Very anxious, and even much

excited,

I

waited to see what course she

would now take. She went straight up to the door and laid her hand upon it,

I

she

possessed. Whatever

and,

saw Pauline lying with her

eyes closed, and apparently In a

dead

ran to her, raised her

UP,

and

carrying her to her room, laid ner on her bed. It

was now

"I

I

about nine o'clock.

Priscilla happened to be out, so

I

ran

back to the dining-room and bade Macari a hasty good-night.

hope there Is not much the matter," he said.

to

was quite willing to humor her. Having come so far, I feared to retreat. To cross her wishes in the present state of things

I

had ventured to leave Pauline

and go in search of him, at this time of night my expedition would be fruitless. As

I

cast round, wondering what was

the best thing to do—whether to fetch a cab and carry my poor girl into it, or whether to let her wait here until she recognized the impossibility of entering the house, aud. at last growing weary, choose to return home of her own accord—as

I

eyes

they would shine with light which

I

had

never known in them—the light of perfectly restored intelligence. A wild, mad idea, but one

debated

I

that used on another occasion.

It

in the keyhole

cess, and,

1

gave up my

saw the door yield,

her wrist be­

wait­

ed until Pauline should awake, and,as I fondly believed, awake in her right mtnd.

She remained in this state for at least an hour. So long that at last I began to get frightened, and think I must, after all, send for medical aid. Just as I was forming the resolution to do so, I noticed tbe beats of Iter tmlse now

water, my

as. still in dart

bristlini

crossed the hall and

e^alland found the

staircases without difficulty Why should

I

riot find it, dark, pitch-

I

knew the road to it

well!asOnce before

I

had reached it in

darkness, and many times besides, in dreams, had

I

crossed

that

space!

Like

a sudden revelation the truth came to me. It came to me

as

in the lock.

into which

the key turned

I

was in

that very house

I

ago.

had strayed three years

I

was crossing

the very hall,

of

ated crime.

expected!

I

I

no impression to the

wild hopes that reason

at the expiration of her

that she had

passed into a state

as­

cending the same stairs, and should stand in the identical room which had been the scene

that terrible unexpi-

I

should see with restored

sight the spot where, blind and helpless,

I

had nearly fallen a victim to my rashness. But Pauline^ what brought her here?

Yes,

as

I

as, in

I

,,

I

could

her, passed out of

the room.toIprevent foUowed her. She went swiftly down the stairs, and

I

saw she

was making for the front door. Her hand was on the latch when

I

came

fact,

I

events

I

felt

certain! The stairs the same and the lintel of the door in the exact place it should be.

might be reacting the

of that fearful night, complete

even to the darkness.

3?

or a moment

wondered whether the last three years were not the dream whether

I

was

not

blind now whether there was such a being as my wife? But

I

threw the

fanCy Where was Paulitfe? Recalled to myself,

realized the necessity of light. Drawing my match-box from my pocket

I

struck a vesta, and by its light

But

I

tered the room which once before

I

and

I

a

word to show that she noticed the action. Then, with me at her side, she walked straight on.

She went at a swift but uniform pace, as one who had a certain destination

in

I

I

see an

eyelid quiver. Although my sleeve was touching hers,

I

knowledge of my presence. 3

no further attempt to check

made

her progress.

She was not wandering

about in an aimless manner. Something.

I

must say

LE

knew not what, was guiding or

impelling her steps to some set purpose. Something in her disordered brain was urging her to reach some spot as quickly as possible.Idreaded the consequences of restraining her from so doing. Even if it was but an exaggerated case of sleep-walking it would be unwise to wake her. Far better to follow her until the fit ended.

felt that something

was struggling with her,

up

and

I

I

I

dreaded

the moment when it should take coherence and form. I

dreaded it for her

dreaded it for myself. What awful passages would it reveal to mel Tnewax light burned down to my fingers, and

was compelled to

drop it.

struck another,then looked about for some means of the illumination sustained.

-Tomaking

my great joy

I

found a

half-burned candle in a candlestick on the mantelpiece.

I

blew the thick dust

out of the cup formed bjrthe melted wax at the bottom of the wick,and er a little spluttering and resistance,aft managed to induce it to remain lighted.

Pauline stood always in the same attitude, but

I

fancied her breath was

quickening. Her fingers convulsively round her temples,playing­fidgetwere ing and pushing her thick hair back, striving, it seemed to me, to conjure thought to return to that empty shrine.

could do nothing but wait and whilst

I

waited

am certain she had no

I

glanced around me.

We were in a good-sized room, stantially but not fashionably furnish­subed style altogether that of an ordinary lodging-nouse.waswas

It clear

some time,hadasit

not been occupied for

dust lay thick on every article.

I

could

throw my mind back and recall the very corner of the room in which I was stationed whilst assassins were so busily engaged.thecould

I

where

I

and

open,

mark the spot

fell upon the yet quivering body,

I

shuddered as

I

was of

could not resist

peering on the floor for traces of the crime. But if the carpet was the same one, it

dark red hue and kept

its secret well.a At one end of the room

folding-doors—it must have been from behind these

were

I

I

What possessed me! What impulse urged mei

I

Bhall never know.

down the candle

room

I

The cloak

"let

hesitate "Pauline, back now go in there to-night. To-morrow, if vou like, we will come again."

She stood before

that door with her hand pressing against it. I took her arm, and tried gently to lead her away. She resisted with a passive strength

1

us

go

w. It is dark, and too late to

I*was

bad

should not have believed

was

the dim­

ly conceived object in my poor wife's brain, it was plain to me it could only be attained by passing through that door.

But

that fatal

these

I

night.

was

that

with

alterna­

tives a sudden thought struck me. Once before my latchkey had opened a strange door, it was within the bounds of possibility it might do so again.

I

knew that

uninhabited houses are often from carelessness or convenience left with doors onlv latched. It was an absurd idea, but* after all, there was no harm in trying.

placed

without a hope of suc­

as

I

felt the lock turn and

athrill of

something

like horror ran through me, for now that it had come to

read

pass

I

laid

I

entered the back

lifted the dust-covered lid of

the piano and

I

struck a few notes.

DouDtless it was the tragical associations of the scene which made me, without thinking why or wherefore, blend together the notes which commenced that great song which

I

had heard as

lingered outsiae the door, listening to the sweet voice singing, and wondering whose voice it was.

As

notes

I

I

of Pauline. A

as though

E

she ex­

pected it would yield touch. Then, for the first time,tosheher

and grow troubled. line dearest," I said,

seemed

struck those

looked through the folding-door

and at the motionless statue-like

ugure

nervous trembling seemed to pass over her frame. She turned and came toward me, and there was a look in her face which made me move aside from the piano, and wonder and fear what was to take place.

had throwu around her

had fallen from her shoulders. She seated herself on the music bench, and striking the keys with a master hand played brilliantly and faultlessly the prelude to the song of which

I

a few vagrant notes.

after the

had struck

thunderstruck. Never-till now

she the slightest

music—shown

as

I

taste

have said, it appeared rath­for

er to annoy and irritate her. Now she was bringing out sounds which it seemed absura to expect from that neglected and untuned piano.

first few bars

ishment ceased. As

been told,

felt might be fatal. But how

could we gain entrance? There was no gleam of

I

light up-stairs.

As you looked at the house you knew intuitively it was uninhabited. The agent whose name appeared on the bill carried on business amileawav, and, even if

sing in

knew what would happen—

or part of it.

I

was

on

So

fully

prepared I

breathless emotion I

waited until the song came to the very note at which it finished when once before

I

listened to it.

So fully

I

prepared,

that when she started wildly to her feet and uttered once more that cry of horror, my arms were round her in a moment. and

bore her

to a

To ner,

sofa close

as well

What the reflux might do eventually —whether

down

it would be a blessing or a

curse—I had no time to consider. All my cares were needed by Pauline. My task was terrible'

I

had to hold ber

by main

every

drew out my key, a duplicate of

force, to endeavor in

possible

way to

Ssat

I

soothe ber and

revent her cries, which-rang-so loudly

feared the neighbors would be alarmed. And all the while she struggled with me, strove to repulse me and regain her feet, as certainly

as if

her thoughts

I knew this

thing could be no mere coincidence. As the door opened. Pauline, without a word, without a gesture of surprise, without anything that showed she was more aware of my presence than before, passed me and entered first. I followed her, and, closing the door behind me. found myself in perfect darkness. 1 beard her light quick step in front of me I beam her ascending the stairs I heard a door open, and thai, and only then, I summoned up presence of mind enough to force my limbs to bear me is mj blood seemed

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as to me, all the

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could

I

knew that whatev­

er had happened formerly

was

once

more before my eyes. Once more she was being held down

by a

strong hand,

most likely on the same couch,and once more her struggles were gradually becoming and her cries growing fainter.feebler

It needed only for the latter

to sink at last into a repetition of RTIWMAI moan to make the picture,that

far as she

was

only difference

was

I

that Che hands now

laid upon her were loving

ones*

All things up to the present situation, and all that I narrate after the termination of this chapter,! expect to be believed.

do not say

to

be

flesh

was creepingv my

that

such

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