Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-08-23

first two or three days of our newborn In
timacy found this eccentricity OF Car
riston's positively startling. When now
ana then turned TO him and found MIN
staring win all ms might ut nothing, my
eyes were compelled TO FOLLOW the direction
IN Whlcn MS own were o,nt' III was at nfst
Impossible 10 uiVest ones sell oi the beiiet
That something should be there To JUSTIFY
81 liked gaze. However, as the rapid
| CROWN OF our friendly intercourse soon
showed me that he was boy OF most ar
dent poetic tempsrament-Perhaps even
more poet than an artist-i iaid at the
uoor Oh tne Muse these absent looks and re-
CURING nights INTO vacancy
| we were at the Fairy olen one morning,
sketching' TO the best OF our ability, the
swiring stream, the gray rocks and the
oNerhangihs trees' the last Just growing Drill
uant with autumnal tlnts. SO beautiful was
everything around mat Tor long time !
| workei' luled, or dreamed IN contented
silence Carrlston hah set up MS easel az
some niue oistance from nine. Az last
turned 10 see now his sketcn was progressing.
lie had evidently fallen into one OF his
oro"h s'uuies' anu, apparently, harder
one than usual Ills brush had fallen from
his fingers. his features were immovable,
and his strange dark eyes were absolutely
riveted upon large rock in front of him, at
which he gazed rs intently as If his hope Of
heaven depended upon seoing through
He seemed for the while oblivious to things
mundane. A party of laughing chattering.
terrible tourist girls scrambled down the
rugged steps, and one by one passed in front
| of HIM Neither their presence nor tho In
quisitive glances they cast on his statuesque
face reused him from his fit of abstraction.
For moment wondered II the boy took
opium or some other narcotic on the sly
Full of the thought | rose, crossed over to
hhn and laid my hand upon his shoulder.
AS he felt my touch he came to himself, and
| looked up ut me in dazel, inquiring way.
Really, Carriston," said, laughingly
| ''you must reserve your dreaming fits until
| we are in places where tourists do not con.
gregate, or you will be thought madman,
or at least poet.n
He made no reply. He turned away from
me impatiently, even rudely; then. picking
up his brush, went on with his sketch
| After a while he seemed to recover from his
pettishness, and we spent the remainder Of
the day as pleasantly as usual.
As we trudged home in the twilight he
said to me in an apolosetic, almost peni-
tent way:
| II hope was not rude to you just noww
"When do you meanr asked, having al
most forgotten the trivial incident.
when you woke me from what you
called my dreaming"
''Oh dear no. You were not at all rude.
| If you had been, it was but the penalty due
| to my presumption The fights of genius
should be respected not checked, by a ma
| terial hand"
| THAT is nonsense; | am not a genius: and
| you must forgive me for my rudeness, said
| Carriston, simply. After walking some dis
| ,,,- I'll h,.
| Il wish wien you are w.th me you would
| try and stop me from getting into that state.
1t does me no good
| Seeing he was in earnest, promised to do
| my best, and was curious enough to ask him
| whittier his thoughts wandered during those
| distracted moments.
II can scarcely tell you," he said Pres
emily he asked, speaking with hesitation,
| II suppose you never feel that under certain
circumstances-circu which you
cannot explain--you might be able to see
things which are invisible to othsrsf'
''To see thingsi What thingsf'
''Things, as ! said, which no one else .ap
see You must know there are people Aho
possess this power"
u know that certain people have asserted
they posses what they call second 81 hit; but
| the assertion is too absurd to waste time In
| refuting"
Yet" said Carriston, dreamily, II know
| that il l did not strive to AVOID it, some such
power would come to me-"
"You are too ridiculous, Carrfston,n 4
said. 'Somc people see what others don't,
because they have longer sight. You may,
| of course, imagine anything But your ewes
handsome eyes they are, too-contain GER
tain properties known As Lumors and lenses,
| therefore in order to SEE"
Yes, yes" interrupted Carriston; 'I
know exactly all you are gong to say. You,
| a man Of science, rld!cuie everything which
| breaks what YOU are pleased to call the law
| OF nature. Yet take all the unaccountable
| tales told. Nine hundred and ninety-nine
you expose to scorn or throw grave doubts
| upon, yet the thousandth rests ON evidence
| which cannot be upset or disputed. TIE
| possibility of that one proves the possibility
| Of AL"
Not at all; but enough for your argu-
ment, said, amused at the boys wild talk
| You doctors, he continued, with that
delicious air OF superiority SO often assumed
| by laSmen when they are In good health,
put too much to the credit Of diseased i'm
| agination."
mo doubt; it's convenient shelf ON
which to put difficulty. But go on"
~ he body is your province, yet you can't
explain why cataleptic patient should hear
a watch tick when it is placed against his
foot.
NOR you; nor any one But perhaps 1t
may aid you 10 get rid OF your publishing
| theories Il tell you that catalspsy, as You
understand IT, Is a disease not Known to US;
ia lsct, IL Goes not exlst'
he seemed crestallen at hearing tns.