San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-08-03

The White Face At The Window.
Written by Edith Aiken for the Light.

FIRST CHAPTER BEGAN IN NO. l33. JUNE 29.l
at was Julie in all proba bility, was
the reply. But 1 will tell you about
Nellie. Ever since her birth she has
been different from ordinary children
She has always possessed in marked
degree the gift of conscious and I'M
conscious clairvoyance. Her mother
nor father understood it, and of course
u her childhood she did not under
standlt herself. Neither did /, though
I lis tened, and wondered almost with
awe at times, | was for many years
as ignorant concerning the beautiful
spirit gift, as the rest of the family,
but when at last there was offered me
and 1 did accept some light ON the
subject, my brother and Arthur were
50 bitterly opposed to everything hav-
ing suggestion of spirit power, that
1 kept silent. But more than he ever
dreamed, her father owed to Nellie.
know he often looked to her for hints
to help him search for you Elsa, but
she could never give any, except
when Arthur returned home from
Chicago, hopeless of finding you, and
amazed and perplexed at what he
heard there, she stoutly maintained
your cause, and declared we should
find you, and that when we did, we
should find that you had been dread
fully wronged!"
"That is all true" assented Arthur
and the part that surprised us most,
if you remember Aunt Susan, was
that she seemed to know just what
! had heard, though did not tell her.
Father thought it best that we should
tell no one, since we believed it to be
in some way a great mistake.
"You are kind to speak so lightly
of the things you heard" said Mrs.
Roberts looking at the speaker CRATE
fully and slight trernor in her voice,
"but last night learned something
of what those things were, and can
only wonder that you could ever be-
lieve in me again. Please Aunt Su-
san tell us the rest about Nellie"
"Well, about a week ago was at
the house alone with Nellie in her
chamber when she changed slightly
from her usual self, and told me to
be prepared ON New Years evening
about ten o'clock to receive Elsa
Roberts at my house, to be most kind
to her, and to inform her of her ex-
pectations from my brother, and to ask
no question. You see she unconscious
ly knew your whereabouts, and your
danger, as well as your rescue, and
by the.help of this clairvoyance, or as
1 believe by being an instrument of
the angels, she has been the means
of saving you from terrible. danger
and restoring you to US"
Mrs. Graham spoke gravely, and J
the young people realized how firm
her faith in the wonderful doctrine
of spirit power. They remained 81
lent some minutes, and then Mrs.
Graham gradually led the younger
woman to speak of her past life. The
first eight years after her marriage
had been uneventful, and if not en-
tirely happy it had been placid. The
best society in Chicago had been very
gracious to herself and husband and
they had apparently been favOrites, !!
Business had prospered, her husband
always kind, had gratified every
wish, and three times when he had
crossed the Ocean on business for the
firm she had gone with him, making
1t holiday. Then her one child had
been everything she could wish for,
healthful and bright, and especially
to her, and that one bleas-
ing was still hers if he should live
10 return. She had eight years of
this pleasant life, and then Hedge
appeared in town. He
was not received in the best circles