New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-08

/ troubling and upsettlng her. Ii may be goinp on
for al know You nw ~st a have o"ns o.
that you will not tronble the girl In that way any
more" ,
| prove TO me that have done anything of my own
will to trouble her. Your sister.--l will confess
| have sometimes Thought OF her since saw he and
| talk with her ia your English home, but have
never anything besides. And this DOCTOR VINO
| talks about sympathes and ciairyoyance,,-i re-
member him---a foolish idealist who would like to
| believe in spirit raps ana media. and to explain
them by pseudo-science PIT! an man OF
SCIENCE and doctor myself ana 10 S Se
your sisters strange vision and marks were not due
TO me. will give her $4,000 on her wedding-dsy.
| Oh yes. have the money to command am Just
preparing to leave Tanger to attend to the estate OF
| my uncle newly dead"
seen propery into thugs there's often nors
inside to dreams than people guess now VIII You
| prove It'll" -,
home m England and look into the matter myself.
You are going homs said he, after you have been
to Mogador am going 10 Bavaria now, to act ac-
| cordine to my uncles WILL Meet me lii L'ndon---
| when9'
SO invited him. you see. not to wait to meet me
in LONDON, but to go straight on home ana mtet mo
there on September 8, the day before Chariottes
/ need not quote this long spiste further With
arrival Sv sbs ss1 tina yse
to improve and TO look forward with feelings OF her
own i thought, TO September 2. There hId been
her thoughts before she had that peculiar yslo her
tell tale face when the letter was read sufficiently
| proclaimed that ne bad occupied her thonghtsa
good deal still when the question was put to her,
| Had she not known whom her dream concornedl
| she protested that she had not though she might
| have had more than one vague ana troupiosoihe
guess. :. ps..,,.
simplicity In lot suspectng as ne appeared not 10
doctor to come to house to explain the mystery
was pot 50 much prompted by love Of science as by
love Of nandmaa more sI'ra mars than snn.
rose Charlotte was to blanc the adv enturoqs DOC
tor for his lack vf openness for rst OF 81; aSve
reasons why he should saw nothing to Edward Of
his love (supposing always he did love Charlottel;
wbi rs he doubtless knew. od-fasbonsd English
| folk are averse to internarriags; and alter the
peculiar revelations of Charlcttes Inclination TO
| him he might wish to assure himself by sight and
speech that he still OF the same mind regarding
her, before he should commit himself to an express
PROPOSAL so,..,o,d n =. nm s.D,.,.h..
| awaited BenIgsen's arrival. Edward had come
| home the day before, and seeing the remarkable
change in Charlotte and her manifest autter Of
shame and love, fear and hope. he had looked
around on us with the open looks OF discoverer.
and Te in 5s.s On Se S
| evident that his sudden discovery weighed upon
him, and in a moment of confidence he remarked
She seems to like it; I don't. ! hope be won't
| come / was fool to ask him; should have seen
bis drift. I don't believe he'll have any % plana-
tion to give at all, except that absurd mesmersm
clairvoyance, or something of that sort!
Yet he SET cut TO meet Benigsen ut the station,
and In due course returned with him. e
DIR. Arnot was invited anu came TO hear the
| promised xpanation In the evening In the mean
| time Bengscn bad had a private conference with
story of her dream IL is probable that the story
had been accompanied by something else from her
H ms and had
Jsr's permission to inform us that u ne gave ra
tonal explanation OF the vision which stu haunted
her and II he could Danish it from her. then III two
months she would listen TO certain proposals of-of
love aud so forth Did we object I he asked. No,
did YOU propose the two. months bargainfI
asked.
i thought said j, 1t did not look Ike an ar
rangement Charlotte would make ,
do you think, said he, she would have herself
proposed longer tlme-a harder DarRalnT -
ION the contrary, said L; j think sne would not
herself have proposed bargain at ALL
He looked at me dolefully: and we turned for the
explanation He asked us to accompany him to q
loom be had been shown at his request
Now said he with a glance aside at Dr. Arnot.
Il 40 not deny the supernatural; only say know
nothing about 1t. But know little of the natu.
raj; | think it, til ,relore, my duty, AS man OF
thing out of the common rather by things which
do know than by things which DO not KNOW
important to Remember he continued, that Miss
Charlotte did spend great part Of every day and
night of three months in this room
Yes. poor girl, said mother that she did,
sAnd that on October "a she had gone out for q
LONG walk TOR the first time for many, many days.
She was very tined when she returned and she went
to bed. Her mind was not weary. though her body
was and the open light OF outdoors
1t was very dull day. said |.
Tho open light hs continued, stimulated the
sense of sight. stirred up and made as II it were
alive the stored images OF the retina' (At this Dr.
Arnot locked up within frown OF inquiry NOW
place this lamp and shade where it usually stood on
this table, and SIT any one here where Miss Char
lotte usually sat; now look there at that tgure on
the carpet close to tho curia where the light
falls; does it not look like dark angry face with
black beard and does not the bottom of the green
curtain. arranged so. appear like green turban upon
the headf
We each went to the proper place to look, snd
confessed that 1t was very easy To see, where thu
light fell a dark face and green turban; Chariot,
even recollected-at least kald she recollected--
having noticed the appearance sometimes wheA
sitting with her mother.
Shs could not help but IT. said Bengsen, tr:
umphantly, it is so clear. Now. my next point
said he. is more difficult. Miss Cbarlottes mother
has made the admission to me that her daughter
she suppOses from waiting so closely on her ngat
and day SO long and from Using up so often not
more than half awake to get h'r sonething-has
frequently walked IN SLEEP rom one part OF s sne
mothers, without any one but her mother knowing
of that is not t. be surprised at for lady does
not like to have il known. Well, when she went to
bed that afternoon there was fire in her room. al
though there was none when sha woke up and
when her brother came IN she knows there was u
fire because she remembers burning paper it
before she went into bed. Now from the nature of
the case, cannot make a demonstration. can ouly
present q suggestion; and first would beg to ask
the young lady question Did she not wish after
ward that she had not burned that paper II know
not what the paper was
Charlotte blusLed and looked down in confusion
and said Yes
So continued ne. may not she, wishing in her
sleep have got out Of the bed aud gone to the lire
thinking take back her letter from the ashes, aId
so have burned her wrist on the hot bar Of the
CRATE Now, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. saio he. with an-
other glance at DIR. Arnot, have long noted that
dream that seems 10 involve n long tain of events
sometimes occupies no more than n single moment
of actual time For instance. pistol report that
really awokc the sleeper has been known 20 give
him an instantaneous ye; apparently dra wn-,ut
series of1adventures including q quarrel, chal-