Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-19
A WILD, DELIRIoUs DANCE.

some little dissatisfaction was at first ex.
perieneed.
Olivia was a woman past her girlhood,
above the medium height and fashioned
like female Hercules Her splendid
shoulders and superbly rounded arms were
left uncovered BY her gown of white satin.
Her face was by no means beautiful and
only saved from comparative plainness by
| its bright expression and the charm of her
| frequent smile.
As or the doctor, his appearance was
even more Disappointing and removed from
all romance. His tall, spare, awkward ig-
ure, surmounted by a narrow, ill-shaped
! head and pale, cadaverous face, was hardly
calculated to produce a very favorable i'm
preston.
The music ceased and DR.. Kellogg spoke
a few Introductory words in a quiet manner
and with no Barnum-like effort for effect.
He announced that before exposing, accord
Ing to his promise, the hollow swindles of
so-called hynoptiZers and spiritualists he
would produce certain genuine and incon-
testlble phenomena through the creation, in
his subject OF an artificial sleep.
With slight sign to the orchestra, who
Immediately commenced a low and tremu-
lous accom- paniment, 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 per.
feet 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 expression was complete; her
features seemed cast in tragical immobility,
her look was one Of vague, yet deep aston
lshment and terror; her ewes were fixed
upon Kellogg, but seemed to go through him
and lind in the distance beyond some
threatening, unearthly vision. Truly
miracle, II a small one, had occurred.
Olivia, whose looks but few moments be-
fore had little to saw. them from positive
plainness, seemed COW possessed of striking
and sinister beauty, expressive though It
was oil intense, incurable anguish. A glance
at the doctor showed that in his appearance,
too, no less change had taken place.
he was no longer the obseuuious
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-strlngs the blackest
problems life His figure seemed to gain
in dignity, HIS lips were firmly compressed,
and RON his eyes, under the shade of their
frowning brows, a wicked gleam shone forth.
His whole bearing seemed to express a ran
corous anger, tempered to some extent W ith
ironical pity for the poor woman before
him. At each gesture OF his hands Olivia
sank still further into her phantom sleep.
The carriage of her body was that OF one no
longer possessed of independent thought:
she moved with the even glide Of a somnam-
buiist, as If walking upon air. She would
draw back as II attempting to escape, and
then advance again with short convulsive
steps, her bosom heaving with hard, me-
ehanical, deep-drawn breaths.
Suddenly cry Of horror rang through the
buildingl
From some concealed pocket about his
person, Kellogg had taken long, thin dag
ger, and lifting iton high so as to give force
TO the blow, had plunged it into the bare
fish o Olivis's arm. Leaning far forward
from his box, Lord Warner, Mortified BY 4
the suddendess OF this cruel act, looked
upon the scene with eyes full of singer and
disgust Lady Warner, on the other hand,
maintained the same cslmness which had
marked her since her eDtrauee, the only
visible sign Of her emotion being that she
clutched the edge Of the box before her with
q nervous grasp and q rhYthmieal beating
her well-gloved fingers.
The most unmoyed of all was Olivia her
self. Not sign did she give any pain
experienced rom the cruel stab. Her fesh.
even around the dagger's wound. MAIN