The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-02-08


the gallery was waving his right arm
above his head and running on t
meet US.
"Good heavens! Egerton," 1 sait
impatiently, "where are your eyes?-
Here-straight before us-not quar-
ter of a mile Off-making signs as harC
as he can. Perhaps we had bette
wait till he comes up"
My friend drew his race glass from
its case, adjusted it carefully, and tool
long, steady look down the road
Seeing him do this, the man stood
still, but kept his right hand upall th'
same.
''You see him now, surely?" said I
"No r'
az turned and looked him in the
face. Icould not believe my ears"
"UpOh my honor, Frank" he SAID
earnestly, ''I see only the empty road
and the mouth of tie tunnel beyond
Here, Kauffmannp
Kaufman, who was standing clOsC
by, stepped up and touched his cap.
"LOok down the road" said Wolfe
The guide shaded his eyes with his
hands, and looked.
w nat 90 you see!
az see the entrance to the gallery
mein Herr"
"Nothing else?"
"Nothing else, mein Herr"
And still the man stood there in the
road-even came a step or two near
erl Was 1 mad?
"You still think you see some one
yonder?" said Egerton, looking at me
very seriously.
''I knOlD that / dO.n
He handed me his race-glass.
Look through that" he said, Sand
tell me if you still see him."
81 see him more plainly than be-
fore"
"What is he like?"
every tall-very slender-fair-quite
young-not more, 1 should say, than
fifteen or sixteen-evidently an Eng
lishman."
''HOw is he dressed?"
In a gray suit-has collar open, and
his throat bare. Wears Scotch cap
with a silver badge in it. He takes
his cap of, and waves 1.-THE has a
whitish scar on his right temple.
can see the motion of his lips-he
seems tosay Go backI go back!' Look
for. yourself-you must see himp'
/ turned to give him the glass, but
he pushed it away.
'fNo, no." he said hoarselY. ats
of no 4lso. Go on looking.
What more, for Gods sake? ?''
I looked again-the glass all but
dropped from my hand.
i'Gracious heavens" L exclaimed
breathlessly, he is gone!"
"Gonew
Aye, gone. Gone as suddenly as ne
came-gOne as though he had never
been. 1 could not believe it. L rub.
bed the glass on my sleeve. L look.
ed, and looked again; and still, though
1 looked, l doubted.
At this moment, with a wild un.
earthly cry, and a strange sound as Ol
some heavy projection cleaving the
stagnant air, an eagle plunged past
upon mighty wings, and swOOped
down into the valley.
"Ein adler! Elm adlerw shouted the
guide, tiinging up his cap and run
ming to the brink of the precipice.
Wolfe lay his hand on his arm anC
drew a deep breath.
"Legrice," he said very calmly, but
with a white, awe-Struck look in his
/ face, "yOu described my brother Law
rence-age, height, dress, everything
even to the Scotch cap he alway;
wore, and the silver badge my uncle
Horace gave him on his birthday. He
got that scar in n cricket match a
HarrOwgate."
"YOur brother Lawrence ?" / falter
ed.
"Why should you be the one per
mited to see him is strange" he wen
on, speaking more to himself than Il
me. Every strange! wish bu
there! perhaps l should not have be
lieved my own eyes. 1 must believe
yours"
81 will never believe that my eye
saw your brother Lawrence" l saiC
resOlutely.
awe must turn back, of course" hl
went on, taking no notice of my an
swer. "LOok here, Kaufman, car
we get to Schwartsenfelden tO-nigh
by the old pass, if We turn back a
once?u
"Turn back ~ interrupted. "My
dear Egerton, surely you are not ser
ious ?'
1 was never more serious in my lie,
he said gravely.
"If these Herreu wish to take the
old pass" said the astonished guide
1--WE cannot possibly get to Schwartz
enfelden before midnight. We havt
already come seven miles out of thu
way, and the old pass is twelve mile
! further back"
SIX" said l. 1--WE cannot add TWEEN
| ty-six to our original thirty 1t is Ou
of the question"
''These Herren can sleep at tn,
chalet, where we halted, Suggested the
guide.
True-I had not thought of that, ,
said Wolfe. ave can sleep at the
chalet, and 90 on as soon as it is day.
"Turn back, sleep at the chalet, anC
go on in the morning, and lose a full
hall a day, with one of the finest pass
es in Switzerland before US, and ou
| Journey twO-thirds DONE" / cried
/ 1.-THE idea is too absurd
"NOthing could induce me to 90 on
in defiance of a warning from tht
dead" said Wolfe, hastily.
"And nothing" l replied, "shal
induce NE to believe that we have re
ceived any such warning. l eithel
saw that man or / labOred undel
some kind of an optical illusion. Bu
ghosts I do not believe in"
"As you please. You can go on i
you prefer it and take Kaufman witt
you. know my way back
"Agreed-except as regards KauG
man. Let him take his choice"
Kaufman, having the matter ex,
planned TO him, elected at once to q
back with EgertOn.
''f the Herr Englishman has beer
warned in a vision" he said crossing
himself devoutly, ''it is suicide to q
on. Obey the blessed spirit, meir
/ Herr"
But nothing now would have Undue
ed me turn back, even if 1 had fell
inclined 10 dOsO; so, agreeingtO NEE
next day at SchwartZenfelden, my
/ friend and | said goOd-by.
/ ''GOd grant You may come TO NJ
harm, dear old fellow" said Wolfe, a:
/ he turned away.
D NfAA = AINA Int AAeAAilf 4 eA17HA
you," l replied laughing.
And so we parted.
stood still and watched them til
they were out of sight. At the turT
of the road they paused and looked
back. When Wolfe waved his hanC
for the last time, aud finally disap
peared, / could not reprcss n suddeT
thrill-he looked so like the figure o
my illusioni
For it was an illusion, l did no
/ doubt for moment. Such phenOm
ena, though not common, are by m
I means uncommon, are by no mean
unheard of. / had talked with NOR
than one eminent physician on tbi
very subject, and 1 remembered tina
each had spoken Of cases within hi,
own experience would never disbe
lieve in hallueinations again. To tina
I made up my mind but as for ghost
] l-pshaW! how could any sane man