Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-08-09

and from the back the famous LIT. heI-
logg and Olivia advanced hand in hand
and bowed before the footlights.
Considerable applause greeted them,
though it could not be gainsayed that IN
the appearance of the illustrlous
couple some little dissatisfaction was at
first experienced.
Olivia was woman past her girlhood,
above the medium height and fashioned
like female Hercules. Her splendid
shoulders and superbly rounded arms
were left by her gownof white
satin. Her face was by no means beau
tiful, and only saved from comparative
plainness by it's bright expression and
the charm of her frequent smile.
AS for the doctor, his appearance was
even more disappointing and removed
from all romance. His tall, spare,
awkward figure, surmounted by a
narrow, ill-shaped head, and pale, ca
daverous face, was hardly calculated to
produce very favorable impression.
The music ceased and DR.. Kellogg
spoke few Introductory words in quiet
manner and with no Barnum-ike effort
for effect. He announced that before
exposing, according to his promise, the
hollow sWindles of so-called hypnotizers
and spiritualists he would produce GER
ldl11 SCuulIC dIlJ lIlCOIltCSldDlC DICI1O-
mena through the creation, in his sub
iect, of an artificial sleep.
With a slight sign to the orchestra,
who immediately commenced low and
tremulous accompaniment, the doctor,
without further preamble, extended
both his hands toward Olivia.
For few moments she gave no sign;
the audience, breathless with interest,
sat in perfect silence, with all eyes fixed
upon the stage Then, all at once, the
magic seemed to work. Struck by the
magnetic current, Olivia rose suddenly
from her seat. The change in her ex-
preston was complete; her features
seemed cast in tragical immobility; her
look was one of vague, yet deep, aston
ishment and terror; her eyes were fixed
upon Kellogg, but seemed to go through
him and find in the distance beyond
some threatening, unearthly vision.
Truly a miracle. if a small one, had oc-
cured Olivia, whose looks but a few
moments before had little to save them
from positive plainness, seemed now
possessed of striking and sinister beau
ty, expressive though it was of intense,
incurable anguish. Aglance at the doc
tor showed that in his appearance, too,
a no less change had taken place. He
was no longer the obsequious, courteous
dispenser of the magical power, but the
harsh servant, the untiring seeker after
knowledge, tearing the veil of mystery
with brutal strength and prepared to
drag out by the heart-strings the black
est problems of life. His figure seemed
to gain in dignity, his lips were firmly
compressed, and from his eyes, under
the shade of their frowning brows, a
wicked CLEAN shone forth. His whole
bearing seemed to express rancOrous
anger, tempered to some extent with
ironical pity for the poor woman before
him. At each gesture Of his hands
Olivia sunk still further into her phan-
tom sleep. The carriage of her body
was that of one no longer possessed of
independent thought. She moved with
the even glide of a somnambulist, as if
walking upon air. She would draw
back as if attempting to escape, and
then advance again with short, convul
hard mechanical deep-draWn breaths.
Suddenly cry of horror rang through
the building.
From some concealed pocket about
his person Kellogg had taken long,
thin dagger, and lifting it on high so as
to give force to the blow, had plunged
it into the bare flesh of Olivia's arm
Leaning far forward from his box, Lord
Warner, Mortified by the suddenness of
this cruel act, looked upon the scene
with eyes full of anger and disgust.
Lady Warner on the other hand, main
tanned the same calmness which had
marked her since her entrance, the on
ly visible sign of her emotion being that
she clutched the edge of the box be-
fore her with a nervous grasp and a
rythmical beating of her well gloved
fingers.
The most unmoved of all was Olivia
herself. Not a sign did she give of any
pain experienced from the cruel stab.
Her flesh, even around the dagger's
wound maintained its marble whiteness,
and her whole form could still only be
likened to statue of night.
A long murmur Of stupefaction ran
through the audience, to whom it was
a visible relief when the doctor followed
up his barbarous experiment with more
gentle and poetical illustrations of his
wonderful power.
Having gently drawn the dagger from
the bloOdless wound, the doctor waved
his hands, and Olivia commenced to
sing. Her notes were low and sorrow
full, but sweet to a degree, and their eff
feet was duly heightened by the orches-
tra's soft accompaniment. At another
sudden signal from the mesmerist the
song was broken off abruptly, ending
with a plaintive chord sounding almost
like a cry of depair. 1t seemed as if
the interruption sundered every tie
which bound her to reality; as if her
mind were wandering in all the I'M
certainty of great sadness. Her eye
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