San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-07-07

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A decision once reached, Royals mind
clarified, like a pool in the quiescence
which follows a violent stirring up. His
difficulties were by no means dissolved
or dissipated, any more than is the mud
at the bottom of the pool, but for the
moment they sank out of sight.
The day following was the one ap-
pointed for the operation, and when that
should be over he would go away for a
time, so as to leave Phyllis in the state
of absolute calm which would be es-
sential to complete the cure. He had
already exceeded the limit he had al
lowed himself for holiday making, and
his affairs in the west required his
presence. His practice had been in
trusted to a brother physician on whose
time and courtesy he felt he could no
longer trespass, and, as he had assumed
new responsibilities, and was, moreover,
a man by no means independent of his
own exertions. it behooved him to re-
turn home and look after his interests.
Phyllis must remain in Alexandria to
be near tho oculist for many months to
come, and during that time Royal hoped
to arrange matters in such Q fashion as
to withdraw his future, in a measure,
from the shadow Of the dead mans past.
The feeling of possession, of being him
elf, ard yet other than himself, which
had been SO strong upon him during the
ceremony, had modified, but enough of
it remained to make him FESTIVE. To
himself he neither denied the impression
nor attempted to explain it, and he spoke
of the matter to no one. That the soul
Of a dying man, freed from the material
in the intensity Of a dominant and un-
fulfilled desire, should, operating through
spiritual or imaginative laws, influence
the soul of another man dominated by
the same desire and III an abnOrmauy
Uuickened condition by reason of nerv-
Gus excitement, was to him a thinkable
proposition, and II which it would re-
quire no more creduiity to admit than
would be demanded by nine-tenths Of
the theses constantly presented for the
consideration of mankind.
The intellectual man was in Royal
sufficiently developed to enable him to
recognize that all thought pertaining to
chat infinite which perIneates and tran
sends material things must forever root
itself in instinct and intuition, and also
that his individual knowledge of the laws
Of spirit or imagination, CLEANED from
observation of their manifestation in the
life Of matter. was. relative to his ig-
norance, as Il single plume from an
eagles wing to the sum of the birds
aerial iou-neyings.
Still, withaI. Royal was a very human
natured man. and since realization that
Phyllis was his own wife had come to
him matrimonial association of her, even
in idea, with another man had become
offensive. 1t was not that he was jealous
of the dead mans memory; Royal was
not sufficiently in love for that, and
would besides have been incapable of the
Phyllis, as his wife, would
be quite as free TO ezpend regret upon
her cousin as though she were still I'M
wed. That which CALLED Royal was his
inability for the time to escape, in her
thought, from the dead mans identity
the knowledge hat he was not himself
to her, but the incarLEAan Of aGnther
To Be Continued.