Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-03-16


Paul. To all of us, no doubt, 1t would be
q salutary punishment, though 50 severe
that we should none OF us ever dare To do
any work again, especially literary work.
Then the publishers would be ruined, and
authors and publishers would SIT side 10y
side in the casual wards, their quarrels
forgotten, and the general public would
fail back upon the old masters. To Paul,
this was the last of the many sCOurRings
with which fate had afflicted him within
the last few days. 1t finished him, As you
will see. He could bear no more
/ suppose his imagination was growing
morbid, because presently this fancy
! passed away and was succeeded by anoth-
er. He thought he was there in person,
but that the others were phosts-shadow
Figures moving about to mock him and
to let him understand what the world
said of him. Only he himself of all the
crowd was real 1t was his punishment,
he thought, for all his pretences and dis
gui,es, that he should be isolated The
! rest of the world was apart from himself
he stood alone. That feeling Of sOla-
| ton comes to many men at times of griev
! ous depression. We came into the world
alone, we 90 out of the world alone we
walk through life alone, save for the love
of women aud children. Those VINO have
not that support ar indeed alone.
| Presently one of the ghosts stepped out
of the crowd and spoke to him.
| Herr PauluS,' she 81 d, 81 am going to
scold you" He knew her now-it was
the lady who wanted him to 20 to her
| Sunday evenings. "You have never once
come to see me, and after ali your promis
| eS.
81 am very sorry" he began
"Will you come next Sunday ~
81 may be called away, | will come
with the greatest pleasure if am in Lon
dom
Then l shall rely upon you, and | will
! have the brlghteat and most delightful
and most appreciative circle to meet you.
| We shall not expect you TO do anything,
| but if you should he in the mood it would
| he pleasant on n Sunday evening, when
one is surrounded 10y lriends-not mere &C
| quaint anCes-but people whom one can
! love and trus, aud when the atmosphere
/ mas been charged with certain serious
ness, you know, and all that communal
! cation from the other world would be par
! ticuarlv suitable"
81 will try" said Paul, eff | am still
| here
Il was present when you produced
those two papers ID you know, Herr
| Paulus-may ] c. IL Won Paul Thank
| you. Do You know, Paul, that | have al
ways wondered why more has not been
| made of hat miracle. | met the Professor
the other ~ and asked him what he made
of it. He replied that if You would do It
| again before committee formed Of half a
| dozen observation-disclosures and half dozen
not take it away, he was quite ready to
give the matter serious consideration.
| VIII you do this for him -
II think not.
"Aud they say everywhere that Mr..
| l}rudenel was made to sell out his shares
| in ne Company without knowing it, so
that he saved an immense sum of money.
| If that Is true it must have been done by
you. Paul"
eyes" said Paul, smiling, "that is true,
and 1t was done by me. | believe that Mr..
| Brudenel does not desire the transaction
to be a secret"
"Ohl It is wonderful-wonderfu
| May | tell everybody YOU are coming,
| Paul; 1t will Ne 50 great an attraction.
| Photographs falling from the ceiling, or
even the bells of Heaven, would be better
than nothing
Yes" aid Paul, "even to hear the
bells OF Heaven would be-Yes, Mrs
| Tracey Hanley, Will come, il am still
here, on : md ~ next"
Come aud talk to me again presently,
! Paul. There are some delightful people
here. But You have no eyes for II ore than
one delightful person.
| She laughed i'll the light way of her
| Kind, and sailed away, and Hetty joined
| Paul again.
"Th-re are two dances remaining for
| you, Paul" she said. Come, we will 90
to Cicely's room think nobody knows
of it, and we shall be alone
No one was there. The lamp was lit {;
the door woS shut; nobody knew anything
! about this room.
Paul sank into chair
"lietty," he said, you must give me
"Why Paul ?"
"B cause must give you up. | cannot
drag you down to my level"
con- Paul, you are thinking of what
| those wretched people said. know now
| HAT !, az
| York. Bethith told me all about your
| youth and your failure to make name in
| litrra' ure.'
"A Mediums Cad, Hetty. That is how
| Sir Percval put it,
"Nonsense, Paul. You might as well
call Tom Professors Cad, because he is
| Demonstration in the Phy steal Labora-
| tory "
"No, to have been a medium at all is
iniamy. 1t brands "A man for life. He can
never recover his self respect. Hetty, bid
me 90 and give you up"
| Paul. II YOU meant what you say-but
you do not"
81 am disgraced forever He threw
out his hands aud walked up and down
the room. "tIetty, 90 away-leave me. |
| am lost. am utterly miserable. | have
nothing in the world except you, and
have no right-no. not the smallest right
to love such girl as you"
| she looked ut him with wonder.
eve two, Paul." she said. have both
had the same enemy. No one can hate
the very name of Spritualism more than |
do. ! have had to look on and know that
the professional medium is iul of cheats.
and tricks aud lies. And my mother is
one on, had il not been thar you showed
rs beyond doubt that there is way
open to the other world, ! could have run
away and drowned myself for very shame.
Now ] know that il is all trickery But
we WI have nothing more to do with the
other world The present shall be enough
for Us. Why, Paul, You are young and
quite clever-all the world is open to the
man who is Young and clever. And / can
wait in patience if only know that you
are working like other men. Now YOU are
ap lrt from other men. But in the future
oh Paul, in the iuture-when we are
together aud far away from this place.
we shall look back upon the past like a
bad dream. And of the other world we
shall be satisfied TO know that some men
have found way to speak with those be
You'd but as for Us, we will cling to the
old paths, and go to church and have
faith just like the rest of the world "
81 cannot tell her." said Paul. Then he