Connecticut western news., 1871-09-29

the mystic race appeared-young, hand some as Spaniard, though her splendid black hair was rather coarse, if you came to examine it too closely. Emma drew back, to let her mistress enter first.
 "Walk in, my pretty lady," said the gipsy "don't be afeared; I am quite alone here"
 Although the fun of the fair did not commence till late in the day, it was evi dent that custom came betimes to the sibyl, for all traces of night disorder had disappeared from the miniature interior, which was spick and span, neat and clean :; obviously prepared for visitors. The small apartment was still further reduced by curtain, which ran on brass rings along rod, enclosing portion of the space.
 The gipsy examined Cissy's hand, and began making shots-centres though, most; bulls eyes, some.
 "You are all only child, and your father and mother would give you gold to eat, if you wanted it; you had bad illness four or five years ago when child you were in great peril from a dog" A lot more to the same effect, couched in vague language. but very correct. Cissy began to be sorry that she had come. ''There's two gentle men as is very sweet upon you, my. pretty lady," continued the lmpoetic sibyl; Eff you marry one you will be unhappy all your life, but if you take the other you will be lucky, and live to be eighty, and ride in your carriage and pair all the time."
 The idea of this very protracted drive rather amused Cissy, and that revived her courage. After all, the woman might have made inquiries about her on the chance of her coming.
 "And how am I to know which of these gentlemen to choose 2" she asked in ban tering tone.
 "Ah, that I cannot tell. my lady; but you can look in the Magic.Glass for your self, and sec if it shows you aught."
 "Let me see it, then," said Cissy brave ly, though the feeling of creepiness began to return.
 The gipsy said that Emma should leave the caravan; but Cissy would not have that, so a compromise was effected the maid was blindfolded. Then the gipsy drew slides across the little windows on either side, producing deep twilight. Then the curtain at the further end slowly parted, revealing a wall of black cloth, tightly stretched, in the centre of which was fixed a circular mirror, about two feet in diameter, and this gradually became lu- minous. Cissy's nervousness returned with increased force, and she grasped the hand of her blind folded maid.
 A table separated the girls from the mirror; and whether it was owing to the magic quality of the glass, or the angle at which it was placed, it did not reflect the figures standing opposite it. Indeed, it was more like ground glass than an ordi- nary mirror; ground-glass with feeble light behind it. Presently the surface be- came covered with ill-defned, shifting shadows, which gathered so thickly as to obscure the whole of it; and then it grad ually cleared, and a head and shoulders grew upon it it cleared little more and revealed-the undoubted face of Charles Wilson. Cissy stood aghast in awestruck terror before this supernatural intimation; when suddenly, as she gazed, the face be- fore her became convulsed witK an express ion of terrible agony. She uttered little scream, and tainted.
 Fresh air and cold water soon brought her to; she feed the gipsy, and started 
 "You seed him, miss ?'' inquired Emma.
 "Yes; and I'll never marry any one else, if I die an old maid. But, oh, what can that dreadful expression on his face fore tell? I fear that some awful calamity will happen some dayp'
 A not improbable dread. There was one consolation: fate and Cissy's secret wishes had hit it off nicely. Girls are queer things, and she had hardly known that she preferred Charley Wilson as much as she did. -t-..
 In due time,le offered, and was accept ed; and they were married, and went for their honeymoon to the Lake of Como.
 One evening Charles Wilson rowed his bride out in very clumsy tub.
 "How serious you are, Cissumsp ID he said, finding her less chatty than usual. "Did that bravo-looking beggar frighten you? Because his frowzy head shall be punched if he did.''
 ''Oh, no; oh, don't offend him p' cried the young wife. "I am sure he has got what the Italians call the Evil Eyep'
 ''Has he? Well, never mind; the Americans have invented potion which counteracts the effect"
 "Really?"
 ''Yes when we return, will get that gentleman from New York stopping at the hotel to concoct us an Eye-opener; that will make it all rights
 "Oh, dow cried Mrs. Wilson; and her husband padded on.
 "I say, Cissums," he said presently rest ing on his oars, ''don't think that am finding fault, because you have not got any faults, so that would be absurd; but are you not rather superstitious %
 ''And if am, have right to be-" said she.
 "Ah! any particular experience ?" And he wormed out of her the whole story.
 "I am sorry told you," she cried, when he burst out laughing; 'you don't believe it! You had better call me story-teller at once."
 "Believe it, my dear! am ready to swear to it. You did not see my ghost, though you were looking at noe. I was in dreadfully confined position. and that thief of gipsy was so long about her pre- liminaries, that got horrible cramp in my right calf, and made face which thought would betray me.''
 The bride burst out crying
 "And you bribed my maid and laid a plot with common gipsy to deceive me ]; and nearly frightened me to death; and ~eAo I""S a' lne al1 Iue Clne-on she sobbed.
 "All's fair in love-" said Wilson, sheep ishly.
 ''lt was unworthy of you" she contin- ued ''you have married me on false pre- tences. I shall never feel the same to- wards you; 1 will never forgive you, nev- CT 20
 But she did.