Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-05-05

ing his seat and going to the edge of the
platform, addressed her in tone hoarse
with emotion:
Vision of my daughter, can you speak
to me?"
Yes. father" was the response, in low,
but clear and melOdious accents. 81 have
come for thai"
'"Have you anything to communicate"
| asked he-any mOmentGry doubt as to the
gonuineness Of the apparation vanishing as
| heard those unmistaka5le tones.
Nothing, ifyou disbelieve." was the
calm reply.
alt is impossible to disbelieve. seeing and
hearing this marvel! What supernatural
power has brought you here, and what
would you say"
The power Of fiIial love and fiiaI pity
father. No other could have induced
me-"
did you then know how unhappy
am ?"
81 long have known it, and long waited
| for some summons. 1t has come, and
have come that soothe the heart that
loved me once, yet would not yield to my
love-"
81 know it, Estelle !" sobbed the dis.
traught father; land deserve, tho do not
visit me with reproaches."
81 will not, father. You denied me hap
piness; but am happy now. am with
one who loves me better than father, and
by bis permission thus appear to you
! My stay is short, and these few words must
suffice. Believe me when tell you will
! come to you soon again, but not beneath
! the public eye. Be comforted Farewell /!
To the sound IF music she disappeared,
as noiselessly as she had come, leaving the
audience still more mystifed and it was
with some difficulty that the persuasions of
DR.. Brace and Annie, who now chung
about him, prevailed upon Mr.. D:ury not
to mount the stage, with the purpose of
! pursuing the phantom.
Carroll now advanced, thanking the au-
dience for their generous reception and in-
duigence, and announced u change Of per-
Torrance for the folljwing evening. The
curtain fell. and the visitors, much marvel
ling, withdrew, variOusly impressed with
the last unparalleled scene.
Was the figure really a phantom
! thought some. 1t was plain that E.telle's
father thought SO, and who should know
better than he? 1t had spoken also, and
many recognized the tones. But perhaps
the ventriloquist had produced them Yet
the sounds and the sight, taken together,
! still puzzled every doubter and all con-
! fessed it was impossible to account satsfac-
torlly for the miracle, unless Carroll, in his
wRnderings, had met with some young wo-
man the exact counterpart of the llmented
Estelle. But that Of itself would be mir.
aculOus.
She said she would appear again! She
would appear again !" rapidly repeated
Nathan Drury, when left alone that night >
and in his disturbed slumbers she did APP
| pear, in dreams, which, when morning
woke him, made the light of the sun almost
hateful to him, for banishiug communion
| so precious.
On that day Lester Carroll again sought
him, and found him haggard with increas-
| cd distress.
What unearthly secret are you pos
sessed Off" asked he wildly CT the young
man.
"One that you shall know in time" said
Carroll; Though, perhaps, 1t would do
! more harm than good, since what occurred
hos so appalled, you"
Give it to me, oh, give it to me" i'm
! plored Drury. Give to me the magic
power to summon up her image when 1
please, and may God SO bless you as you
will then bless me"
Il can do So" said Carroll, earnestly
"But ycu forget Row once implored in
vain Of you. to bless me with her living
hand. l prayed, yes, aud she prayed for
you to make US happy; but you coldly re-
! fused, giving no hope save that which ex-
lists beyond the grave. Why, then, should
l bless you you who were SO mindless of
my peace, as well as IF her own? Can
you restore her to life-the life you sacri-
feed ? And could you do it, what reason
have i, save judging by the past, that you
would be more merciful than before? Oh,
how little do fathers think, when through
pride or prejudice, they stand between
their children and those their children
love, that they once loved themselves; or
reflect on the desolatiOn which came or
would have to come upon them, if their
love had been so batfled ~
81 know it, l feel it, keenly, madly, but
be magnaEimous and have charity if for
no other reason, by virtue Of the cor, mon
bond of love which binds US both to her
Give me the se@et which can recall her
image"
Il will. Behold then again |"
The door was flung wide open, and into
the room walked Esielle, arrayed as she
was the night before. She advanced with
outstretched arms; but her father receded
at first, in superstitous terror.
''My father, | am alive"
God of heaven, is this possible ?"
1t is qnite possible" said Carroll, with
a smile, as the father and daughter touch
ed hands and then embraced. "You have
introduced yourself to Mrs Estelle Drurv,
Sir; and after you are sufficiently assured
OF the resurrection, l will venture to ex-
plain how l came to marry a corpse"
In few moments Mr.. Drury was enough
composed from the bewilderment of his ioy
to listen to the secret.
By the aid of DR.. Brace and Annie
Ware, Carroll had overcome the scruules
of Estelle against the adoption of ruse
by which her marraige would be relieved
OF the odium of an elOpement and the in
reference of her father. She had been
enabled, successfully, to feign death and
before night had fallen upon the tomb, her
lover had borne her far away from it, and
they were married without fear Of scandal
or the persecution fparental fury. Driv-
en- by desperation to this resourse, she de-
signed never to return to one who had
proven go unnatural to her. But rumors
of his remorse and decline had often reach.
ed them, and at last induced them to re
lent and venture upon an experiment to
test the real feelings of the father, and
pave the way to possible reconciliation
1t was now effected, by means as odd as
the marriage; and the happy sequel may
be imagined, there haying been nothing
unnatural or supernatural in that.
Ihe Power and the Glory.