The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-02

" on see HIN now, surely! said l.
"No."
turned and looked him in the face.
| could not believe my ears.
"Upon my honor, Frank" he said
earnestly, ~ see only the empty road,
and the mouth of the tunnel beyond.
Here, Kauffmannl ~
Kaufman, who was standing close
by, stepped up and touched his cap.
Look down the road" said Wolfe.
The guide shaded his eyes with his
hand and looked.
"What do you see ?'
81 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 step or two nearer
Was | mad?
You still think you see some one
yonder," said Egerton, looking at me
very seriously.
g know that do"
He handed me his race-glass.
"Look through that" he said, sand
tell me if you still see him."
" | see him more plainly than before"
"What is he like?''
Very tall-very der-fair-quite
young--rot more, | should say, than
fifteen or siXteen-evidently an English
man."
How is he dressed ?"
SIN gray suit-his collar open and
his throat bare. Wears Scotch ca D,
with q silver badge in it. He takes his
cap off, and waves it he has whiteish
scar on his right temple. | can see the
motion Of his lip-he seems to say go
back go back = Look for yourself
you must see him ~
| TUNED to give him glass, but he
pushed it away.
No, no. he said hoarsely. ats of
no use. Go on looking. X X
What more, for Gods sal<e?n
| looked again-the glass all but
dropped from my hand.
"Gracious heavens !" | exclaimed
breathlessly, he is gomez
"Gone !"
Aye, gone. Gone as suddenly as he
came-gone as though he had never
been. could not believe it. rubbed
my eyes. rubbed the glass on my
sleeves. Hooked; looked again and
still, though l looked, doubted.
At this moment, with wild, I'M
earthly cry, and a strange sound as Of
some heavy projectile cleav'ng the stag
nant air, an eagle plunged past upon
mighty wings, and swooped down into
the valley.
Elm adler! Elm adlerr' shouted the
guide, fiinging up his cap and running
to the brink Of the preclpice.
Wolfe laid his hand upon his arm, and
drew a deep breath.
q" Legrice," he said very calmly, but
with a white, awe struck look in his face,
"you described my brother Lawrence
age, height, dress, everything; even to
the Scotch cap he always wore, and the
silver badge my uncle Horace gave him
on his birthday. He got that scar in
cricket match at Harrowgate."
"Your brother Lawrence ?' faltered.
"Why you should be the one permit
ted TO see him is strange" he went on,
speaking more to himself than to me.
Very strange | wish But
there Perhaps l should not have be-
yours ?"
~ will never believe that my eyes
saw your brother Lawrence" l said
resolutely.
I'VE must turn back, Of course" he
went on. taking no notice of my an
swer Look here, Kaufman can
we get to Schwartzenfelden tonight
by the old pass, if We turn back at
once ?"
" Turn back !" | interrupted. =" My
dear Edgerton, you arr not serious?
" ! was never more serious in my life,"
he said gravely.
" If these IIerren wish to take the old
pass" said the astonished guide, "we
cannot possibly get to Schwartzenfelden
before midnight. We have already
come seven miles out Of the way, and
the old pass is twelve miles further
round"
"Twelve and fourteen are twenty.
SIX" said |. eve cannot add twenty
six miles to our original thirty. 1t is
out of the question"
" These Herren can sleep at the cha
let, where we halted,o suggested the
guide.
"True-I had not thought of that"
said Wolfe. :" We can sleep at the cha
let, and go on as soon as it is day"
Turn back, sleep at the chalet, 60
on in the morning, and lose full half a
day, with one of the finest passes in
Switzerland before us, and our journey
two thirds done," | cried. "The idea
is too absurd"
Nothing shall induce me to go on in
defiance of warning from the dead"
said Wolfe, hastily.
"And nothing" replied, "shall in
duce me to believe that we have receiv-
ed any such warning. either saw that
man or labored under some kind of
optical illusion. But ghosts | do not
believe in"
AS you please. You can go on if
you prefer it, and take Kaufman with
you. l know my way back"
"Agreed-except as regards Kauff-
mann. Let him take his choice"
Kaufman, having the matter ex-
planned to him, elected at once to go
back with Egerton Wolfe.
If the Herr Epglishman has been
warned in vision" he said, crossing