Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-09

Loved Dy tnee.
Geoffrev heard them in his heart. Then
they were gone, the vision of Beatrice was gone
and suddenly he awoke. Oh, what was this
food of inarticulate, passion-laden thought
that beat upon his brain telling of Beatrice?
Wave after wave it came, utterly over
whelmiDg him, like the heavy breath of
flowers stirred by a night wind-like mes
sage from another world. 1t was real; it
was no dream, no fancy; she was present
with him, though she was not there; her
thought mingled with his thought, her be-
ing beat upon his own. His heart throbbed,
his limbs trembled, he strove TO understand
and could not. But in the mystery of that
dread communion, the passion he had trod-
den down and refused acknowledgment took
life and form within him; it grew like the
Indians magic tree, from seed to blade,
from blade to bud, and from bud to bloom.
In that moment it became clear to him; he
knew be loved her, and knowing what such
a love must mean, for him if not for her,
Geofrey sank back and groaned.
And Beatrice? OF sudden she ceased
speaking to herself; she felt her thought
flung back to her weighted with another's
thought. She had broken thrc gh the bar
riers OF earth; the quick electric message of
her heart had found a path to him she loved
and come back answered. But in what
tongue was that answer writ? Alas! she
could not read it, any more than be could
read the message. AT first she doubted;
surely it was Imagination. Then she re-
membered it was absolutely proved that peo-
pie diving could send vision of themselves
TO others far away; and if that could be,
why not this? No, it was truth, solemn
truth; she knew he felt her thought, she
knew that his life beat upon her lie. Oh,
here was mystery, and here was hope. for if
IL =, rLof
be? If her blind strength of human love
could SO overstep the boundaries of
human power, and, by the sheer
might of its own volition, mock the physical
barriers that hemmed her in, what had she
to fear from distance, from separation, ave-
from death himself? She had grasped a clew
which might one day, before the seeming
end or after-what did it materially
strange secrets open to her gaze. She had
heard whisper in an unknown tongue that
could still be learned, answering Life's
agoniZing cry with a song OF glory. If only
he loved her, some day all will be WELL
Some day the barriers would fall. Crumbling
with the flesh, they would fall and set her
naked spirit free to seek its other self. And
then, having found her love, what more
was there to seek? What other answer did
she desire to all the problems of her life
than this of Unity attained at last-Unity
attained in Deathi
When Geofrey woke on the next morning,
after little reflection, he came to the de-
clsion that he had experienced a very curl
Gus and moving dream, consequent on the
exciting events of the previous day, or on
the pain of his impending departure. He
rose, packed his bag-everything else was
ready-and went to breakfast. Beatrice did
not appear till it was half over. She looked
very pale, and said that she had been pack
ing Efie's things. Geoffrey noticed that she
barely touched his fingers when he rose to
shake hands with her, and that she studiously
avoided his glance. Then he began to won
der ii she also had strangely dreamed.