The Forrest City times., 1890-04-19

" very rank, without 0 cnro upon hi 8 mind.
 confess that almost grew to like the man, and began to be ashamed of my suspicious. Remarked something like this to my sister one day, and then begged her to tell me what was her plan to extort a confession. She only shook her pretty head to all my pleadings, but refused to join me in my new feelings of regard for Mir. Tracy.
 A few weeks later I was deputed to invite "0ur Murderer" us Rose and I called him, to an evening entertaip- ment at our house. There was to be music and tablcaux. My part of the performance, Rose said, was merely to sit next to Mir, Tracy in the audience and prevent him from leaving the house in any event, for, as Rose sig nificantly observed, Something might happen that would frighten him"
 Upon the evening of the enter tainment the company assembled at about 9 o'clock. Mir. Tracy and myself being assigned seats in the rear of the others The tab leaux, interspersed with music, went on successfully for an hour, then the programmed changed and the stage manager made this announcement:
 Ladies and gentlemen, we arc fa- vored tonight by having in our midst midstthegreatmaterializingmedium, the Dr. Slayton, recently from London, where he suffered considerable perse- cution for the sake of his supernatu- ralpowers. He,has kindly consented to give us n slight exhibitor of his remarkable ability to communicate with the unseen world. He promises, however, not to frighten anybody who has not a guilty conscience"
 This speech was greeted with laugh ter and applause, and tho introduc. ton of Dr. Slayton was generally be- lieved to be capital joke, part of the amusement of the evening But the yeritable Doetor soon appeared upon the stage, to the surprise ot my companion and myself, who were familiar with his appearance, he hav- ing been one ot our fellow-voyager upon that fateful journey from Flu rope.
 Nothing very terrifying occurred. Some familiar airs were played by unseen agencies, and bouquets of nat ural flowers were bestowed upon some of the adies-tlowers that came from nowhere, apparently.
 Presently Mr. Tracy and myself were requested by messenger to re- pair to the library. We crossed the hall and entered the room, which was illuminated by the silvery light of the full moon that shone through the long windows.
 We were not alone. The phantom like figure of a woman stood by win dow, apparently gazing out into the radiant night. She slowly turned at our approach, and we stood face to face with the ghost of the murdered wife. For time l could never tell how long dead silence reigned. Then these words were pronounced in q chilling tone that seemed like an echo from the tomb.
 'The sea gives up its dead"
 My companion sank upon his knees in pitiiul, abject terror "0h, Genevieve, forgive me, forgive mel he cried
 My God, have suffered-how suf- feredl Pity and forgive mel
 The attitude and cry of unmistak- able anguish were, to my mind, suiti- cient evidence of Tracy's guilt.
 While we were both complete ly dazed, the apparition vanished. When the william had somewhat re- covered and become aware Of all that he had betrayed, he tried in n confused way to account for his ex- clamation, but 1 was not disposed to lose the advantage so gained, and so effected to possess absolute proof of his crime.
 Finding denial useless, he confessed all and pleaded eloquently for his life. His evident remorse affected me called in Rose, and the result of our consultation was that We agreed to keep to ourselves all knowledge of Tracy's crime, upon these conditions The criminal was to devote SIS, ,000 out of his annual income of S2o,- 900 pay to the sick and destitute of the poverty stricken portions of New York. and he was to live an upright, regular life. He was to personally superintend each year, the distribution of this money, and at the least deviation from the terms of these conditions We were at liberty to denounce him to the authorities To make everything secured we had exacted written con fession from him. to be used as evi- dence in case he violated the terms of our contract.
 When we were alone together again l tried to induce Rose to explain the mystery of the ghost, but she would give me no satisfactory reply If she knew it she was resolved to keep her own secret, and in thinking the mat ter over am forced to the conclusion that the famous doctor evolved the manifestation out of thin air. !"
 Whatever it may have been, the apparation was precisely the shadow counterpart of the murdered wife even to the expression of the wistful beautiful eyes
 Truly there are moro things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
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