Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-06

| Hennell's keen eyes were fixed upon both
| of us and were taking in all that was pass
| ing. However, good breeding, OF course,
\ prevented his making any remark at the
time upon what must have appeared strange
| behavior on my part, and Miss Warren
| speedily recovered her composure and in
| vited US to come and take some refreshment.
my father and / usually dine early in
| order that he may have long evening with
his microscope, and so we generally have a
light supper" she explained.
1 found myself seated opposite Miss War
rem at table, and felt the strange fascination
OF her face-a fascination which owed its
power in my case less to her beauty, which
was undoubtedly remarkable, than to the
insistence of my brain in tracing the like
ness between the woman of my dream and
the living and breathing woman before me.
L glanced from time to time at Hennell,
and more than once caughtihis scrutinizing
gaze fixed upon me ere he had time to drop
his eyelids, and this increased nv embar-
rassment, so that 1 must have shone but
poorly in the conversation which enlivened
the supper table and in which Miss Warren
took part in manner which fully justified
all that Hennen had said of her mental
powers.
Supper over, we retired to the doctors
snuggery and had our pipes and some
whisky, and then babe our host adieu.
On our way home Hennell rallied me
about my strange behavior on my introduce
ton to Miss Warren, limiting half jocularly
and half tentatively that that was not our
first meeting and that was probably an
old admirer of the lady.
tried to enter into his joeular mood, but
could not; my mind would revert to the
n TO itca oil a1xy, Il F,,1E
and L asked myself hundred times whether
1 ought not to tell Hennell what was,,passing
in my thoughts. Meantime my distracted
manner gradually told upon him also, and
he became silent as we paced along together.
On reaching his chambers, / put out my
hand and said, "Good night"
GOOD night, Studholmel but 1 am afraid
it is either love at first sight with you-in
which case it is awkward for me-or else
Miss Warren has mesmerized you and for
gotten 10 wake you up again.
1 tried to laugh off the impeachment. but
there was no genuine hilarity in nv laugh,
and Hennell saw that there was none. How
ever, he took no further notice of nv mood,
and Lett him and sought my own house. I
am a bachelor and getting we'll on toward
the forties-an age when q man ought to
have some judgment if he is ever to have
any; yet, when l sat that night by the fire in
my study and puffrd hard at that aid to re-
Election, my pipe, / could not for the life of
me determine on any course of action with
regard to my TREND ahd his sweetheart.
/ got down Abercrombie and read his
chapter on dreams" and the strange COIN
cidences which sometimes may be traced be-
tween the dream aud subsequent events
condolences which in many cases can be ex-
planned by anteeedent events, and which in
other eases only exist between some of
the circumstances of the dream and the
facts.
Still my mind came back to the question.
How was it that 1 should see those two faces
SO clearly in my dream-faces which, to nv
knowledge, 1 had never seen before in this
world? And even if had seen them in the
great human tide that surges around US, I
must have seen them at separate times.
Why, then, should they associate themselves
in that horrible fashion in nv dream? And
why should I afterward find their possessors
already linked by the bond of love, and
drawing near to the state which would make
the fulfllment of my dream at least q possi-
billy? A possibility? nay, certaintyl whis-
pered some strange voice within me.
Good heavensl what should do? If I
spoke to Miss Warren of the matter, might
awaken in her mind fear and distrust which
would have no more solid foundation than
a foolish dream and strange coincidence.
/ were silent, and by another strange
the dream should be realized
to its horrible end, should stand, in my
own eyes, as an accessory before the event.
could see nothing clearly, and, like
most men of coutemplative rather than an
active cast of mind, 1 resolved to let matters
DRIFT and trust to events to decide my final
course of action.
Meantime my acquaintance with the War
rens progressed, owing to the persistent in
vitations OF the doctor to spend time with
him in his study over the microscope. I
saw the approaching fulfillment Of Hen
nell's engagement with Miss Warren, and
watched carefully the indications Of the