Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-26
4 MYSTERIOUS CASE.

A MYSTERIOUS CASE.
We were the only two occur pants Of a CON-
partneut N the express train from London
20 Folkestone. My companion was in deep
mourning. Ee was not what you would
cal an intellectual looking man. ard
ON thinking It over afterwards I remember
that he had narrow and retreating fore
head never can quite make up my mind
whether what ny fellow traveller told me
xssls the absolute truth; whether his conf
ceuce was caused by the natural yearning Of
his soul for human sympathy; or whether, 20
use an Anle-fca1isn, he vas merely filing
me up"
1t was not only my fellow travellers re-
treating forehead, but the nature of his trav-
cling literature, that caused me to look
upon him as soEnsthing other than an in
tellectual giant In the first place he was
reading Isis Unveiled" The Proceedings
Of the Fsychical Society" was there, too, and
Z a fat book in very large type was labeled,
Fragments and Remains of Madane
By"
He was good enough TO offer TO lend ne ore
OF his books and, like an ass, gave a snort
a. Indignation and waved It off
n Il have no sympathy with such things
&id
1A skeptic, perceive" said he politely.
"l lock upon the whole thing, sir" 70
pied, ''as bosh and huubug, miserable trash,
wretched balderdash unworthy CT notice"
And then 1 glaIsd at him
tried 70 silence the little man in deep
mourning by locking as much Ike the Cor
gon Med1sa as possible. Far from being
turned 10 stone, he simply began to sit on
the backs Of his hands than which nothing
is more undignifed and irritating.
Il wGs like you once he said with pity,
'iyes, was sco1fer once; but have been
bitterly punishad-in fact, my incredulity
was the cause OF my bereavement" and as
pointed IN a solemn manner 10 the deep black
hat band be wore.
When I hooked up at his hat band I saw
I the mans ZANE printed in little gold Ietters
- upon his travelling bag, which lay on the
rack above his head-''Mr. Augustus Boo
Dyer"
When had heard the name beforei OF
course it comes back 70 NE in Cash. Boo
Dyer! that was the man who ran of with little
Hetty Stareiey, Of the FrivoIty theatre.
am not theatrical nan, bur I saw Miss
Stareley IN the celebrated ballet Of The
Swallows" and very pretty indeed she looked
,
her dot Of d mouth. She was pretty plump
: Little nolentity TIL she married Boobyer,
when she became a nine days wonder. Then
she left the stage, disappeared from the pho
tographers' windows, and nobody ever heard
AMY more Of 1Iiss EeCty Stareiey. .
N TITS not 50 very long ago, he began, that it
wlE my privilege to lead to the altar an ez-
Gee ingly lovely girl / worshiped the very
groOs35} stt.-> trod upon, sir. Ny wife was SO
excessively good looking as to attract con-
siderable attention wherever We went
was proud of it at first, but after while il
began TO pail NJ wife, sir, was a young,
inexperienoed girl, and she felt it bitterly
Mine was q runaway match he went on,
land it made considerable amount Of noise
ct the time. ! live at WimbledoI-clCse 10
the camp, unfortunately for me, and when
we returned from Our honeymoon the vOlun-
teer camp was in full swing. Il seemed TO
me that when they were not actively engaged
In drill or shooting for prizes, the greater
portion of the volunteers occupied their time
walking up and down il front OF nv
hsuse in order to get a glimpse Of my beauti-
ful wife. Pm not e1aggeratinS not the
least bit. At last, however, 1t became IN
bearable 10 both Of Us We determined TO
seek solitude, aud found Il at Herne Bay.
know It is frequented by persons Of limited
means with large families. There Is pier a
mile long We passed delightful fortnight
at He-ne Bay, bus It was dull, terribly dull
We were both feeling rather bored, when
made an acquaintance while | was fsdIn,
for bass with q rod from tie pier bead l
used 70 fish there the greater part OF the
afternoon / h3d never caught anything,
but at place Ike Berne Bay one must do
Spmethlne lie was very decent young
5Jpr, and took a great interest IN my iSh-
Ii had known az the time who ne
Uas. perhaps ! shouldn't have been quite 50
ready 10 fcregather with him. The TACT Is,
he was professional con iurer. but ne was 8
most gentieTaanly young fellow and decd
etly good hooking. Es talked about spirit
ualis:2: he was an advanced thinker. and I.
from the lofty pinnacle of ny Grass ignor-
auce, hooked down upon the whole thing as
'bosh, hunbus AID baldercaSA. -
Here, se,l sitting On his hands, be smiled .
imperunently at Zee.
Monsieur kardec efor that was his pro-
fessional name tired to convince NE, but II
vxln Our stay az Herne bay was drawing
to a chose. I'm gong TO give 4 Little seancs
Lers eo-morrow night sad Monsieur ker-
de-; J shall De greatly pleased II YOU would
&c - SIsS SS4sAC-S LEe VIII
, perform Dozt kunlhe-e ne " Offering 70
paw Ct the dco-. Here are couple Of
ticket
- was about to decline, but ny wife gave
NE chs appealing look frum these great eyes
Of hers, which did lot appeal II vain Wen
conc with pleasure said l, and ! thought no
more shout the matter.
.pas we walked home we stopped 70 rad
one CT the posters. II was the ordinary pro
grannas-spirlt rEpplnS, thought reading,
clsirvoyarce, and then followed rather ex-
.rsordinars sts-semenp. Monsieur Karziec,
after part the brsc, vii give en- illustration
of Inodsrn cen u-ing and prestsdi citation,
y,ithort apparatus o. accoDpiacss. Tie
Zoe vii conclude via lie mysterious dis
k,earanoe Of lady selected from among
taudjenes,' We 10th rather looked fer
ward TO the entertainment as & break 10 tie
dull monoSony OF our daily roaad st Eerne
bay.
s.Punctual to tie time, we presented our.
selves at the ASSEMBLY roons. and were tie
sole OCCUPANTS OF what were ter med tie 70
served fautau.ls, which were TWO rows q or
dnary cane bottom chairs / 6car think
there were fifty people IN the room altogether
The first part Of tie performances was GeepIy
Interesting. Looking back upon il calmly as
DO now, and speaking with the authority OF
one who kncxs,n said the little man ta,d TIE
there ANYTHING could do for yorr Ia went