, 1884-11-23
WILL SHE LIVE AGAIN?

N-t - a-FfAatLAI ~ y IA MY
vital principle apart from the physical funo-
tions that stop with DEATH win never 10
lieve that there Is not something behind al
that-the something that looks out of the
eyes-thnt intangible, incomprehensibls
something. that II or that you which only
uses human eyes or voice TO express ITSELF
All that has been discovered TO be nothing
but a combination more or less complicated
Of brain cells, returned Fielding. the student
II you had gone into that sort of thing, as ]
have, you would see that it Is all reducibls
TO hatter. A few more steps and there viii
be no question OF spirit, even for such ideal
lists rs you. Touch one spot In the brain Of a
genius, and you nave a gfbbering idiot Lift
a bit OF bone from an idiots brain, and you
can educate your man Of genius
Graham shook his head
"You won't see. Hasn't that IDIOT In some
way lost the connection between matter and
SPIRIT Try ms you may, you never viii dis
cover that subtitle, vital essence When you
nave called the intellect the working of thu
brain; the moral sense the working OF the
brain again; all good or evil qualities the
working Of the brain still again-I say there
Is something above and beyond all that, thai
you train and educate, and that escapes with
death. Whether there Is individual fmmor-
tality or not, l am not prepared 10 argue
WIN lour bul ul tlt very luHNI1 VI ~ hut-
structibility Of existing principles In the uni
verse, that vital principle is not destroyed
@Al the musty remains Of an inherited
theology" returned Fielding. "You are not
brave enough 10 discard them in the face OF
scientific proof. l LAY seen toomany deaths
and too many dissections not 70 be positively
assured that the vital essence is extinct with
death. Why, just look at II, now many
trifing accidents put an end to a mans ex-
istence. Stop his heart, take away n few
pounds Of blood, destroy his digestion, and
you have destroyed him. l say. The neces-
sary combination Of forces to work his ma
chinery has been disarranged, and he stops
for good and all. grant you for some it Is
hard enough to give up the idea OF q soul, but
most people will be glad TO welcome annihila-
ton, as l 10. No, WI are born and we die,
and there's the end
Graham smoked silently for some time,
and looked out Of the open window on the
brilliant moonlight that dimmed half the
stars.
"A night for ~lovera,n he remarked pres
emily.
aNho believe in Immortality for one night
only, ~ laughed Fielding. "What nonsense II
seems tha the reflected light of the dead
world, and the twinlling Of a few live suns,
millions Of Leagues away, should make people
ready toidie for each other, when they laugh
at the idea after their own sun rises
@You incorrigible materialisti7 cried Ora
ham; why do people marry every dayr
Habit, example, and tho conditions OF the
race. One woman IL as good ms another il
she Is healthy and swe~et-tempered."
"Poor Tom Carroll doesn't think 50 where
Dora Varian Is concerned said Graham,
with a short laugh.
ayes, and in two years Tom Carroll will
have forgotten her refusal and her existence,
under tho comfortable regime Of some indif-
ferontly pretty housekeeper whom accident
will saddle on him as n wife and mother Of
his children"
II don't know why she wanted TO throw
Tom over,r said Graham, looking at the end
OF his cigar with a slight frown. what a
mercfless firt she isl II would not have been
No bad IL she hadn't taken him away from
another girl. ! wonder II she has any heart
at ALP
"She's "a skeptic, like me" said Fielding,
carclessly. These men work upspeeches out
OF novels, and play devoted, and il amuses
her. It would amuss me-"
you don't know her well, do your said
Graham. Il don't believe. II you did, you
could keep out Of her clutches. But she will
find hor match at last, l have no doubt
Those women do suffer sometimes"
I'm whgor you what you like" cried Field
ing, shat Dora Varian and l will play at
love in the most artistic way, and separate at
the end, neither Of Us the worse for the
game
a will make no wager said Graham,
briefly; but none the less l am sure that you
with either marry, or ono OF you will 10
pent IT,"
.
Fielding had never been one OF the young
men about town. He was seldom lured into
n ballroom, and never into the pleasure par
ties where people meet so much more agree
ably thar under the lighted chandelier.
Now Il was noticed that he WINS losing his re-
tired habits to talk to Dora Varian, and It
was not long before ono was seldom seen with
out the other. People wondered and gossiped;
these two kept their own counsel. Fielding
was imperturbable when rallied, and Miss
VariAn, placid and t%aciturn in all her love
affairs, was equally so In this. And tho
three months came to and end, and Fielding
said 10 Miss Vnrian:
Next week / sail for France. You will
wish me a pleasant voyage, won't your
"How long will you be gonef' she asked,
lifting eyos with friendly interest
impossible to toll. My plans are 80 indeh-
mite that l have come 10 say goodbye. IT
may he for years, and it may DO forever - he
answered, with n laugh an any case, l
thank you for the most enjoyable summer OF
my life. l shall often look back 10 IL with
regret hat il was 30 short; and then the pity
Of il is that these pleasant things are never
the same again"
Il don't require these elaborate compli-
ments OF my departing FRIEND" said Miss
Varinn, with a metallic sound foreign to her
voice; -and ! don't agree with you hat II il
a pity about the uniqueness Of our pleasant
things l would rather say goodbye than
Al ravoir, 1t means 70 much less-though l
am sorry you are going away she added,
after a moment W nave had u very
pleasant summer, haven't wei I shall re-
member It until quite next summer, | am
sure
I'VE are both heart-whole, - eaid Fielding to
bis friend. Had We wagered, l would nave
won
His trip to Paris was shorter than he had
expected, and seven or eight month found
him at HON again. But he did not renew
his friendship with Miss varian. HI heard
OF her sometimes in the old way, and won
dered IL there was anything in the expression
Of those speaking eyes OF hers that had
made him fancy sometimes, with a pang Of
self-reproach, hat she had given him gold
for his base metal. No; nonsensel She looked
like that at every man who had an hours
conversation with her. II her voice some
times vibrated with what in another woman
would be betrayal OF feeling, it was because
she had learned To modulate her highest
breath for effect
A note came 10 Fielding one day. He
opened It h~urriedly. There was no formal
beginning. It ran as follows.
The physicians have given me up. I
must zee you before It h AL over. Come at