The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-10

knew the answer-hsd propoandsd it to
him.
"MoIdaunt why don't you msrry?"
BE had replied as stated ct tss beginning
| OF this narrative.
But Nordaunt," urged (for he was not a
man given 10 iocuIarity. ct least where wo
men were concerned) you seem, OF all men
in the world the last to live minated. Utah
pshAw What 90 Won mtan1'
II mean" He checked himself Auothe,
OF those married mans looks was directed
INTO the air. This was questi oning. IL mean
what say" conciusively aud with the sir
Of man speaking under delegated author
ity."
"Bigamy
chr I'd like to see tina Ars. Mords1nt
number one"
Must a man believe that his wife is any
the more MS with another man has seen
| herr
"Ahsl Another man not see her. II
| you're doing the Turk you might So we'll sat
Up your seraglio and be done with it. Yes,
| Utah ia IL order"
Mordaunt was silent. had offended him.
l remember how he looked at me- not au-
| grily, lot sentimentally; l can not descTibs
bis expression, only-he was himself in it, |
seemed to feel his personality, his very be-
| ing, pressing me- around, EMBEDDING me as il
4 WC4Cf eH0s BAcaItlmcs Cn4 AUt oNCJ4ut lOI
the change that was gradually creeping over
me. saw Mordaunt; / was watching him
| as in ordinary Gmes-the clear-he AIDED finan-
| cier, the alwayswelcom homely presencs
at the rosy freside, the man yersed in public
sfa'rs-but l certsii ly saw more.
| Talk about material cation, psrafine, or
| what not-I never sat in circle" always
| abhorred the whole machinery of clap trap
known as spiritualism"-I saw standing
facing Nordaunt, just where his eyes had
| settled when be answered me, a woman; no
| mere shadow. but, TO all appearances, ii ssh-
| and blood woman Isav her IS distinctly
IS ever | saw my own sisters. As for being
stricken with terror, al ghost-seers tell me
| theT are in The presence OF the imms,erisl,
was stricken with admiration. She was not
| ABANDONMENT least do not remember to
have thought OF that or OF what she wore. Ii
| seemed to me that saw all | know which
was grand and godlike in the character of
my friend, standing there. instinct with
breathing vitality, living, breathing pres
ence l was not dreaming; do not believe
/ was under nesmeTic spell. My individ.
uality wfs not merged in that of Mordaunt.
How could 1T be when l heard him as dis
tinctly IS ever head him speak, introduce
my vile" and |, in the most common place
mann er Imaginable. exchanged com piiments
With this hitherto aheard OF Mrs. Mordsunt
she setting her part with corresponding every
dsv civility.
did not take my eyes off her; she did not
move sside. / eau not recall that l stirred
but it sesmed to ma that Mordsunt did, aud
directly. as the reflection OF face vanishes
from mirror, she ives gene.
Bat Mordaunt was still there. will that
suEice?' he inquired directly his concise,
business accents emphasizing the question
with me- re than usual distinctiveness.
IsupIose | muttered an assent.
"You are the only human being" he
added, IN the sans matter-of-fact voice be
would have used il he had mentioned that
was look ing old II vas who has ever en-
tered my household That woman loved
when / vas q boy. I have always loved her.
We have always been one. a1d yet her body
has been lying in Holly wood cemetery for
more tn, twenty years. Here is no ideal
" esence no imsginery nearness; you have
set as well "a that am under no halluci-
nation. She has never left me, aud what.
ever am that is manly and wise, under God
l owe it to her real presence and never with.
held counsel"
There now, was Mrs Mordaunta ghost?
] know / saw her and was introduced TO her
know that Mordaunt holds to the belief OF
her real, continual presence near him as
firmly as he believes in the reality OF his
bank stock and yet know no Mrs. III ordaunt
clothed in material clay exists.