The Morning herald., 1877-02-07
CORD AND CRRESE.
CHAPTER XVI.

cn,rieg about her fanny, !o1 ! ".u s1.~ q.
Gu, eh.t I would. l told her that / had. Sh'
.uss aussd what l had heard. I hesitated fol
. s'r moment, and at last, seeing that she wa
ssunsr;or 10 any sorrow of bereavement
gupdh 1pp1d her all about tho sad fate of hel
hrotber Louis, which your old friend
EO"rtanay C.v Despard had communicated te
Il. uncle here. She listened without en-
otiou. o and at last, looking earnestly at me-
said, ,,w
1.tood amazed. I had seen the very
-...naners which had contained an &C
ao"nt us"F Of bis desth. / had read the letters
~ Courtenay Dsspard, which showed how
UU..;ustakinp his search had been. Had be
pot travelled to every place where he could
hssr hs auy thign of the Brandons? Had be
n not written at the very outset wherever he
could co., hope to hear any thing? did not
know what to say.
T For Louis Brandon is known to have
hllen overheard from the ship Java during
. tremedous monsoon, several hundred
mile, avay from any land. How could he
nos,ibly have escaped death7 The Cap
i";n whom Courtenay Despard found out
and and ouestionsd, said he threw over hen
eoou eou and pail. These could not save
him. Despsrd also inquired for months
from % every ship that arrived from those
nsrta but could learn nothing. The next
ship that came from New South Wales
@ @sonndered off the coast of Africa. Three
n,,,engers escaped to Sierra Leone, and
thence to England.
De,pard learned their names, but they
were not Brandon. The information which
ono Of them, named Wheeler, gave to the
ship-ownsrs afforded no hope of his hay
ipg been found by the ship, even if it had
been possible. It was simply impossible,
however, for the Falcon did not pass tho
SPOT where poor Brandon fell overheard
till months had elapsed.
All these things knew, and they came
To my mind. She did not notice my emo
ton, but after pause she looked at me
again with the same earnestness, and said,
"My brother Frank is not dead"
This surprised me As much a. the other.
"Are you sure ?" said l, reverently.
Mam."
"How did you learn this? All who
have inquired say that both Of your bro.
theirs are dead"
"They told mo-" said she, "many times.
They said that my brothers had not come
among them to their own place. as they
would have had to come if they had left
the earth."
She spoke solmnly and with mysterious
emphasis. l said nothing, for l knew not
what to say.
On going home and thinking over this,
Isaw that she believed herself to have the
power Of communicating with the depart-
ed. did not knew whether this intelli-
gence, which she believed she had received
had been gained in her trance, or whether
she thought that she had recent interviews
with those on high. l went to see her
again, and asked this. She told me that
once since her recovery she had fallen into
t. that state; and had been, aslphe called it,
lin her home"
l ventured to ask her more about what
she considered communion with the de-
parted. She tried to speak, but looked
like one who could not find words. 1t was
the same as before. She has in her mind
thoughts which can not be expressed by
any human language. She will not be
able to express than till such a language
is obtained: Yet, she gave me one idea,
which has been in my mind ever since,
: She said that the language of those
among whom she has been has nothing on
earth which is like it except music. If
our music could be developed to an indefi-
mite extent it might at last begin to resem-
ble it. Yet she said that she sometimes
heard strains here in the Holy Mass which
reminded : her Of that language, and might
be Ineligible to an immortal:
This is the idea which she impaired to
me, and l have thought of it ever since,
August 23.-Great things have hap
pened.
When last wrote I had gained the idea
Of o., transforming music into a Language.
Inc thought came to me that l, who thirst
'or o. music, and love it and cherish it above
eIl lhlngs-to whom it is an hourly com.
tort and solace-that l might rise to utter
Iorth to her sounds which she might here.
! mad already seen enough Of her spiritual
.one to know what synpathies and emo
LIONS might best be acted upon. / saw her
ssyeral y we times, 10 as to stimulate myself to
= nlsher and pursr exercise of whatever
genius may have.
Twas encouraged by the thought that |
IRON IRON my earliest childhood, as l began to
le"ln to speak so l began to learn to sing.
"a: AZ i l. learned to read printed type 30 I read
printed music. The thoughts of compos-
~ sss :. IN music thus became as legible to me
+ I;s 'hose OF composers in words. So all my
'Me he. NY knowledge has widensd, and with
Ta. rh; knowledge my love has increased.
His mas been nv one aim in lifa-mv inv