, 1875-09-12

previous night, and saw the two marsh-Ilghs eyes
Of old Manx peerlng from the cathode INTO th9
room. Expectation on tiptoe, stood still hold
ing my breath until the mntaed thnnp OF ny
heart drowned the ticking Of the olock.
Manx crawled slowly into the roorr I did NOT
hear him, I only saw him AZ moving flame,
with lighted cat IN the centre he Was ssn
minutes Ia creeping from the cat-hole 20 t1e
trunde-bed, possibly feet, 80 lmpercept1olo
waa 90 situated that my eyes commanded
the trundle-bed as he crawled into 1t with
movement 80 like that Of q sway1ng, luminous
mist. that only knew he was there ny seeing
him. droMsy purr stirred the atmosphere OF
the room. and. by the flicker OF the unsnutIed
candle. had just an instant TO notice him lying
exactly across the tiny throat OF little Job. bis
| face bent forward. and laterally 80 as to rost
purElngly upon the very face Of Dr.. Seedhaua,
II. Then baby moan interrupted my observs-
| ton, and think, wakened me- from kind OF
| torlor that was gradually stepping my eeoses.
With sudden movement, had him ~ the
! neck, and dragged him from the truudle-bed.
With queer hiss, but no scream, and eyes like
| two living balls the creature turned and buried
| his claws in my arm, tearing the hesh "a it It
| had been paper. Maddened With the lacerstion
and the savage struggles Of the desperate ani-
NAL walked deliberately to the door, opeacd
| it with the hand holding the revolver passed
| into the adjoining room, put the muzzle OF the
pistol against his heart as Near as
| could under the circumstances: and
| pulled the trigger once. twice, thrice. It was
dark, save that little moonlight struggled
| through ereyices in the curtains and that Aan1
| was ball Of flame enveloplug my arm and hand.
| that died out as he ceased to struggle.
| Lighting lantern, l carried the body TO the
| Office, where dressed my arm ind renewed my
| linen, Molly slept through it all. and, when
| returned. little Job, awakened BY the melee and
| the repeated reports. had cr,ed himself to sleep
| again
| am an old man NOW, and very nervous and
whimsical, Job is studying for the profession
and will continue my hunt after the T. The old
sign-board aud are waxing aged together, VITA
binds the ono to the other and often fancy, a.
| t stand in the. ofice-door of sunahiny day,
and listen to the three little graves calling
'.Paps!" that the weathar-woru paralielogram
takes the cue aud puts On 40 EXPRESSION
Of sadness in sympathy with its mas
| ter. There arc Agnes, Willie, and Violet
| over again, younger than Job, and tho grasd is
still! rank on little spot by the ot6ca door where
! Man1 lies buried AZ near as can traca his his
tory in my mind. enlightened BY later and more
! minute observations - to the Psychology Of
| cats, he wan subject to attacks Of epilepsy ana
| must have wandered far out OF his native neigh
borhood, as no doubt Kaspar Hauser did during
| larvated spasm Of the disorder His deprAved
tastes his singular electrical properties, and tho
| fame-like aura that enveloped him 1t times
we're all se7tc{o and exponents Of his maladv.
From the date OF his last and severest spasna
in my Office 80 far from les4y .t recovering; ms
bic trrns incident to nervous affections INTO lar
yated and nocturnal attacks. and Msnx became
scmnambulist- In these attacks habit d1racte I'd
h1m to the trundle-bed; but, whether the babes
were actually amothered, or died OF process
akin to that Of mesmeriasn, IN consequence OF
the peculiar electrical and nervous properties
developed in the rhroes Of the disorder, ID q
question shall have to pequeath to Dr.. Need.
ham, Jr, who no doubt will so!vs ths myatazy OF
the universe one Of these days-as least ho
| thinks 30.