Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-12-28

O. che should VIII Won please look INTO Il
WIN your experienced syes. Mrs Tricksyp,'
had some hopes that this laat IMPLIED COM
plinent would have propitiated the housskeep
81; but apparently il had no such effect for,
al.er short inspection 81 the mirror she said
The glass 81 hight enough 81 III ID do
Sses; tbs BE Just |ons fof your Items Master
But. Mrs. TricKsy, 40 please tell me- " hat
You see when you look into ii Ri exclsimsd,
seeing that must be more explicit IL i wanted
70 gain fall certainty On the matter. '5 g
~. what should / see bit nv On d face,
Master Fred? H she retorted snappishIy !; s'and
y be as good look ing 4 face as the faces Of
many women who be Ten years younger than Z
Oe, ana can tell ZEE that it have been thought.
time s5S79ss s5z g5s45
And herewith ahe bridled eonsider.bly ana.
drew herself up. . 5es
IAN you SEQ nothing there besides your;
facs. then, Mrs Trickey ?'' S53s
Il sless sud save us, Master Fred, you must
% turning mAzed, I think, or else 1t be that
you be making i Irregular fool Of ma Idon't
see why yon should make up such gammOts
about my face, when you've aknoWed 1t these
iass snty years s. Gala y very disreapees--
Iul THAT ! no. < s$ Ss5 @ IS g.e5s
And with hounce and 4 bounce Mrs.
IrickeY turned and aisapp eared from the room,
leaving me alone with the house in the mirror,
which most certainly she had not saen q IA 4.
was rnusing nneomfortably on this fact,
with my eyes fixed on the vision, which to me
was IS distinct IS ever, when the clock on the
chimney piece struck :45 Then suddenly,
e il wiped out By 4 spirits wing. inst when
the little SILVER chime Of the clock was ringing,
hOnas, garden, summer house. moonlight, vel
low CLEAN, vanished from the mirror, aud
saw nothing there save the reflection Of the
familiar ROOM l$S# y-5ff@ % ts%&s.
II was certainly more wonderful phonorne-
non than any which my medical books. and
medical knowledge had taught ms, and ] sat
up late that night thinking it over and trying
vainly to account forsit AS. however, I could
not gain the slightest light on the subject, turn
the matter up and down as might in my brain,
came to resolution Oh two points, and then
went to bed One OF til ese resolves
was. that would not reveal the strange
circumstance to any one, because had always
= most hearty dislike Of gossip and ridicule at
my expense. aud the other was that + would
not allow the inexplicable vision to trouble my
| mind, so as to make me incapable of the daily
work and duty of life. Ny natural calmness
Of temperament and my active, busy course OF
existence made mo more able to make these
determinations with some chance OF keeping to
them than most people in my place. H. 5N. :7.5
house in the mirror once in my dreams Next
day was sent for in Taste TO attend q danger
GUS, difficult case, which required all my skill
and energy. s By the time the evening was
again come, the impression made by the strange
circumstance Of last night had in . great meas
ure faded out Of my mind. .5E%a ,>Rt$
1t go happened that was engaged to spend
that evening with my friends Mr.. and Mrs.
Woodland. Mr.. Woodland was banker, and
his wife was q pretty, sparkling womsn-the
| queen Of society in our town. She and were
always close allies; she would chatter to me
Of all her family affairs and in q certain way
made me her oonfdant On the occasion IN
question WAS Mr.. and Mrs. Woodlands only
guest The banker slumbered in his arm
chair. the lady had two or three bits Of gossip
to tell about the neighbornood. and two or
three books to discuss with me- and deal to
say besides about the first appearance of q
tooth in Miss Baby's littls rosy mouth, That
young heroine was brought down in state in
her nightdress, and had to examine the
prodigy with much circumstance and sol
emnity.> -.
Baby had retired again to the nursery, and
had ceased her somewhat loud remonstrances
with regard to the Inconvenience of being
brought down stairs to appear in tbs drawing
room in such a costume and at such an hour.
Mrs. Woodland was standing ON the hearth
rug looking in the mirror when the town clock
in the market place hard BY struck g. was
looking at the reflection OF my hostess face in
the mirror, and thinking shat it was certainly
very pretty One when suddenly at the side Of
the lively brown eyes appeared precisely the
same house, line for line, which HAD seen in
my dinlng-roo mirror yesterday at this same
hour: garden, pagoda-like summer house. sill
very moon light. yellow lamplight glean-all
were there. Tf.~& 3::s. p, 3"
could not help q start and murmured ex-
preston, of wonder Mrs. Woodland turned
round quickly at the sound. q..
al 10 ha RS oh lraH yVa
sob, just twinge Of rheumatism IN my
shoulder" answered carslessly. 81 caught
it riding home through the storm yesterday"
/ "Mr Heathcote, what do you see 90 won
asked few minutes after, noticing with femi-
nine quiclsness the direction in which my eyes,
IN apite Of myself. were go frequently turned.
Il was thinking that ii was q little hand
eomer, man than l am, should try to get y
wife made exactly ON your pattern" replied
lightly. As ~.
With these and few more TESTING words I
coutrved to put Mrs. Woodlands curiosity to
sleep again, while, from time to time.
watched the visionary house l. Was just as
mad expected; when the town clock chimed q
quarter to 9, it vanished exactly a. it had done
Oh the previous night. f.. < ~, =
From that tins forward, wherever j might
bs If was in the room with q looking glass,
saw every evening. from s to 8:45, for the next
month 10 come, the house in the mirror. Some
OF a cottage wall, where I was tending q poor
ratlent, sometimes in the pier glass of o sick
hne Iady'S apartment, sometimes in the mirror
OF q friends dining room as Sat at dinner.
Th+re was never the faintest change i'll the
vi,on: it was always marked by exactly the
ssrls features canpot say but that this per-
petual haunting Of my life by 80 mysterious an
apnaration did make vaguely uncom Portable
aud painful impression on my mind. But By
strength OF will. and by clinsing resolutely and
ceaseIessly to all my active daily Duties pre-
vented it's having a. morbid, t.. unhealthy effect
upon me-. Ireyeaied the circumstance to no
one,i but appeared to the outer world as if
there was no strange psge In my commonplace
story. H., ~ 55aaei a-.. 80.
!, When, however, 4 month or 90 lad passed
by. there came a great, sudden, real sorrow,
which mcst effectually thrust aside all incina-
non to brood over gloomy, shsGowy, fanciful
troubles. One morning thers arrived q tels-
gram from Lscco, on the Lago Como i'll North
Italy, saying that nv sister. on her way home
from India. had fallen dangerously i'll there,
and calling me atonce to her side knew that
Lotre's health had been delicate ever aince her
baby was born and that she was about to re-
turn to England for the sake Of cooler climate
and the best medical advice. I knew, too. that
she meant to return through Italy, butt was
hardly awaretha she had, as yet, started from
Bombay, and had not the faintest notion that
her disease might possibly take sr,ch q danger
eus turn. No wonder, then, that the tidInss
were q severe blow 49, =. - <,ss r. u
Lutte was far more to nue. than: sisters gen
orally are to their brothers She WIS several
wears younger than I was, and she had been
first my play thing, then my pnpil: and I had
experienced . pang Of real jealousy on that
day when, sitting on d stool at my feet. with
her sweet face hidden on my knees, ehe COR
fessed TO me that there was Oue who Was more
tt her than Twas, one who WAS moro to- her
than all the world besida This foolish fsel-
lug, of course. Quietly passed away, and 4 re-
joiced to see her, q happy bride; vat Lottie was
still my pet, my pride and my darling
# viii not dwell upon the hurried journey.