The weekly messenger., 1889-10-12

vrs-A Strangely deliberate SUI!
re gree Of gold, writes ''Durandar
New iork to the Cincinnati En-
er, :, quite rs remarkable as TN,
nscahticS of its expenditure. Did
"a man, no matter how good, have
ther mans money i'll his possession
iout AZ least the Thought of stealing
kOming INTO his heau.
COrscicnce is Il curious thing, said
of Eyrncs' best detectives. "Iet
tell what | once saw. Twas shadow.
bank clerk on a Western railroad
0. He had n handbag containing
employers treasure, and was tempt
DyamOose with it. The cars rolled
be- down from the Rocky Mountains
ut of Denver for hours. Tom took
Studying Il timetable, in which he
that a westward train would meet
pass this eastward train at Mirage.
btof it; He put the question men
ITO himself, and answered that it
mt nothing whatever to him. But
sent on to think that, if he wished
teal the gold, a way to do it was to
this tain at Mirage and get aboard
other. watched the whole mental
ess.
pronomced the idea prepo.rerous,
be did not get rid of it, and when
stop was made he alighted win the
IN his hand. He seemed actuated
snc impulse which got its force out
Of himself. He had the opportuni-
kuse the speed of two locomotives to
iistance between the gold and its
s, who was on the same train. He
ed slowly toward the further end of
PLATFORM, wondering at his inability
ase plotting a crime, and debating
her there was any likelihood of his
tglng to the westward train when it
:. The most resplendent things in
rado are the drinking saloons, and
TOre at Mirage was to be paneled
mirrors. The big plates of glass
been delivered ut the station. They
unframed, and some of them were
1.-THE boxes in which they had been
ported. The owner of the groggery
discovered that if the edges of two
prS are placed together at right
!. with no frame or anything else to
pate their surfaces, person sees
Slf duplicated in the corner thus
tel. Half the image is on one glass
half on the other, but the iuncture
b' visible, and n singular optical
His that, no matter where the man
Is, or how he changes his place, his
rhOn will not bulge from its place
5e mirrored angle. The name of
tge has been derived from the fire.
by of the visual illusion of mirage
e rarefied atmosphere of the ele-
aregion, and it may be that the
aey-seller meant to startle his Gus
rs beyond anything known to the
NOrgana as they drank at his bar.
1Ough impatient to foresee the prac-
lity of his plan, he had set up a
Of the mirror plates in right |
ID pairs against the boxes and the !
II the freight house. Toward them !
walked unexpectantly. To his /
Pn amazement he encountered him
n multiple. Each Tom had vii |
us scowl and q skulking air as he
ped the bag of gold. Notwith-
ang the absence of frames from the
glasses, he would have compre- /
ed them at a second glance but for
ehaviour of the reflected images.
ibid not stir from their separate !
as he advanced, nor change their
fOns in the least when he moved
but stared ack at him like so
thieves suddenly halted in their
He was shocked and bewi der
enough by a supernatural vision.
hats a curious effect, sir 1t was
N voice that caused Tom to turn
ny, with a quiver of fright.
[ What d you say he brokenly re-
pei. DO you mean the effect on
y no, I carelessly continued ; the
4 optical effect of such an arrange
d mirrors
Vertalnly-that is-ycs, l was OBJ
s it myself.
. Tom it remained an uncertainty
lef flight was prevented by the
|1ter of the errors, but l shall al
believe that he was thereby saved
acrime."
all put that true and curious in
INTO an episode of fiction. And
go from that recollection of de-
ITO real occurrence here in New
% show how curiously one man
himself while under a trifling
0une of a pecuniary sort. Carl
t9 returned one evening despond-
Ills apartment in the wilderness
I%ements which shut the sun out
vest Fortieth street, in the neigh
20 OF Ninth avenue He was n
etween 80 and go, shaped like one ,
IS, queer, long-bodied and short
dogs which are sent into holes
'Oodchucks. His toes turned in,
Hlled ponderously and ominous-
walked. His face was as round
sdcQ and vacant oc tho moon No