The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-01-10

| Another DIR. Jbkyll and mf. hyde mysteFyb
and a Young Husband who Knows More
About the Mysteries Of Feminine Things
than He did.
Cincinnati TiHtastar.
Some nights ago, about midnight, an
alarm Of ERE was runG in from one Of the
boxes on West Fourth street, which
brought the engine flying TO the elegant
residence Of q young couple, only married
few weeks, and who have settled down
| in that quarter OF the town. The FIRE,
which was in the bedchsmber and indeed
in the bed of the young married couple,
wss coon ex!inguiahed with trivial loss.
But back OF this Ere Ia a story which for
weirdness and mystery is rarely surpassed.
There never Was q young couple that
started with brighter prospects. BE is
handsome and rich; che as beautiful q
woman 90 one ever aees on Fourth street.
Yet ON the second night before the above
mentioned FIRE, q mystery entered their
liyss which threatened not only to es-
TRANCE than but to forever destroy the
happiness Of both.
T6e few frat weeks OF their married life
was dream Of joys not that the cor
net exprthsion? Then they (Csll them
John and Marie Tor convenience began
TO get better acquainted, and therefore to
tske lie in q mora matteE'ol.iact way. 30
It vent along until the second night before
this FIRE.
on that night they went to bed and to
slsep. Ar hour or two after the middle
of The night, John woke up and found
that the moon was Ginning directly in his
face. He beard the regular breathing OF
his wife tha. told OF sweet Blumbsr, and,
riaing himself on HE elbow, thought 10
look into her lovely face made radiant by
the soft moonbsans. He looked.
"My Godl" he sssped, aud his face grew
positively yellow with horror. She was
mora in the nhGdow, and es the moon
belms half concealed, half revealed her
face, he ssw where her face should have
been-Rhe1e it woe, in iaCt-a chslky
white, CHASTITY thing with only the sem.
blance az featuTss-a thing that looked
like marble, except that no sculptor bad
ever cut out OF marble face Ike that,
About tho forehead Of this CHASTITY thing
curled the bright golden tressea that he
had so Ci.en smoothed.
Hs Law down TO think over it. "It is
the moonlight" he thought, and looked
again. No, there it Was, more hideous
gyen thnu before, He again lay down and
tiled 10 think 1t out. He decided not to
digturb iE-Whatsver il Tss that had taken
his lovely Young brides place.
After a troubled rest he awoEe to fiud 1t
broad daylight. His wife wSs awake be.
fore him, There che was just as sb0 had
always been beiore-deep biue eyeo, reg
Mar features, rosy complexion and golden
hair. He would not tell her Of what he
had seen. Dssr creature, cha might DO
fTiuhtsuedI But he looked at her iurtiVe.
" every once In while, itariDg leea she
might again b5 Transformed.
He went to lis busineEs, and in the
evening returned. Marie wGa still herseli.
He banished the event OF the night before
from his mind, thinking that II was only
diecrdered dream. After dinner John
told bis vile that he had TO go up town for
the evening, and went out, after che had
protested vigorously and insinuated laugh
inGly about tho lodge beginning to inset
20 early in their married lilo.
He finished his business up town early,
and it wss only 10 o'clock when he reach
ed his own door.
am surprise her, no thought, and OPEN
ing the door softly he went quietly up the
stsirp. Their bedroom door was sjar, and
the light streaming into the hallway
showed that Msris was not yet gone to
bad, John soilly pushed open the door,
His wife stood befors the mirror in her
night dreua. He looked at the reflection
in the glgEa.
Again thu. ghas!ly face 1t was his vile
In form bu. he ioatures-the white, shape
less features. He grogned aloud, and GOV.
ered his face with his kauds.
a sharp tcroam il his wiie's voice, fol-
lowed by "Johnl How you frightened
me, /" made him look up. Again it was his
vife's iacs-!he face he lovSd go we'll. He
looked, his lips parted and!hia eyes staring
with horror and and anaZement. Then
he eat down and began mutteTing!
az must be madl What doea this mean
Horrible! HorribleW
His wife looked at him, and then came
over and put her arms about his neck.
"WhSt is the matter John, dear? You
seemed to be disturbed about come
thing"
"DIHurbedP Who would not be dis.
tu,bed IL" He did not finish. No, be
would not let her know. She looked SO
Innocent, so surprised.
"Itis nothing. am tired"
That night he aToke and looked sev.
eral time 81 her lace In the night, but 1t
had not changed. The triRhIful thing
came no moTs,
The next day pissed and night came.
This was Wednesday, the night of the
fre. John swoke shortly after u o'clock.
BE had not seen that traDoformation for
over tweDty.iour hours. Perhaps IL had
gone forever. To reassure himself he
| looked over his wifs's face. This time no
uniriendly moonbeEm helped him to dis.
cover what hs hoped was not there. Still
determined to sec and Rsspre himself, he
arose, Lit a match, and, walking round the
bed, stood over the form Of his vito. The
i pickering, A,iul light Of the match lighted
up-not the features Of his wife,
but the misshapan, sunken white.
ness Of that thing no dreaded
40 much. III his absolute terror he drop
ned the mstch on the bed clothes, and
stood there shaking and moaning. The
room was suddenly filed with light, and
when he looked, the bed was mass Of
flames. His wife awakened, and leaped
onto the floor, still With that horrible face.
II looked around, she passed her hands
over It and, presto change, once more the
features Of his wiie-this time distorted
with terror. She ran to the window and
cried sire, frel" while he stood there
dssed and dumb.
The Fire Department came, the FIRE was
extinguiBhed, and everything quisied
down. John and his wife stood gsZlng ct
the wreck Of their cossy bed chamber.
"Do you know how Il started, JohnP
John shock himself together like one
coming out Of q trance, and looking earn
estly OF his wife, eaidi
HTsll me all, dearent Do not concsal
from mo this TRANCE thing that has come
lhelrnen ms. II there Ia DR.. JekYlI and