Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-27

home on furlough, we used often TO have a
seance. He believes in it thoroughly"
THAT only shows how completely you've
turned thar poor buffers head, and got him
under your thumb! Poor Borrowdaile! he
wasn't bad sort when | knew him, but L
expect vouye PLAYED the mischief with
him, Mrs. Flo"
Perhaps" she SAYS, according to your
ideas. 1t is Just possible that intercourse
with a few of the other sex may have made
him a trife less pigheaded than you are.
Still. Jack. as YOU are convinced that
SpirituaiiSm is all humbug, why refuse to
Investigate it? Try with me now for one
short hour. and Judge for yourself"
And get bamboozled by some of your
wicked little maneuvers, while you are
laughing in your sleeve. No, my dear girl,
you are deep enough 10 trick me, and
leave me not knowing whether L stand
on INV head or my heels. / know
the naughtinesS of your heart, and I'm far
more afraid of YOU than am of the spirits. /"
"Now that is absolutely silly! How can
play tricks here, in a Richmond lodging
house, where We have been but one week?
Where are my accessories, my paraphernalia,
accomplireS. and all the rest of it? Even
the furniture is new to me; could you find a
more guileless looking table than this ore,
innocent. as YOU observe, even of French
polish. and minus one castor? Besides, you
may choose your own table if you will; what
can I say mOre?"
"Au right, then" he says. jump
ing up eagerly, I'm at your
service. Let's have nv little Cis here, too,
though; what can the child be about all this
time?''
''The dressmaker has got hold of her
D.. ,los1 L, .l,o
must have nearly finished with her by now.
STAY where YOU are. Jack, don't make off
while I'm away, and 1 will fetch her"
Mrs. BorrowdaiIe, who is herself vet a
girl, hurried of to find her younger sister,
who is Jack S hancee, and spending this last
month before her marriage here at Rich
mond, principally that she NAV superintend
the furnishing Of the romantic little house
on the banks of the river which she and
Jack are so soon to inhabit.
Flo's husband is in India, and she has
wilcd away the tediousneSS of their sepa-
ration. during the last year, in chaperoning
Cis, aud in indulging, when she can make a
convert, in her favorite hobby of spirit
rappiug.
Soon she returns, bringing with her Jack S
little Cis.'
Flo is pretty woman, but she is quite
her Cis is in reality 20 years
old, but she looks more like Is in face Her
figure is small and slight and most deli
cately finished in every detail She has a
lovely, innocent face, with large blue ewes,
which still retain the wondering look so
charming in childhood. Her hair is fair
and fluffy, and she has a fragile look about
hcr rs of some freshly opened flower, as if
YOU mus handle her gently or she would
break
Jacks ewes are watching the door before
il opens TO admit her, as the eyes OF a
faithful hound watch for its master when
his footsteps are heard. Jack has found
mistress and master in this slight, young
thing, and would give himself and all he recks
Of to secure her happiness. He is a fit mate
for her in personal appearance, as he ad-
vances to meet her. Over six feet high,
and with the easy grace in his carriage not
often met with in very tall men. His
square shoulders and broad chest, and the
symmetry Of his limbs are perfect. He is
fair also, though not so fair as Cis, for his
i,ce is sunburnt, but he has dancing blue
ewes, and short clcan-cut features and looks
thorough young EnglismaD.
Come, Cis, >" he says, and his voice, when
he addresses her, has another intonation to
what il has when he speaks to Flo. $50
that unconscionable woman has done with
you at lasti She gets far more than her
Tightful share"
"Stayr' says Flo, interposing herself be-
tween the lovers, Jack, you shall not have
Cis by you during this seance, or know to
my cost what the result will be. 1 shall sit
between you Here, Cis, my dear, seat
yourself by me-"
"Oh. no, indeed" exclaimed the girl, ''if
rou have brought me here for this, shall
q away again! don't like it, as you know,
l'io: I'm afraid Of it all | think and dream
of your horrible boyies and spirits by night,
ami / never will help you with it any more.
Don't do it, Jack, there's good boy; L be-
lieve it is awfuIly wicked, though Flo won't
think so; don't encourage her TO go on"
''Why, here's another one" replies Jack,
apostrophizing the furniture, for lack of
better audience. "Cis, you little goose, I'm
going to give her lesson, instead Of as