The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-07-18

ASikAtSASA tA!O ~ Ps'Nt sh' H,t's 5000
ed 10 linger about her. Haverd caught
himself wondering II this really vas
some Theban maiden OF old!
Cardan handed her a pad Of paper and
lead pencil, indicating that she should
write.
"she probably addressed mo in Egyp.
tian," he said 10 Haverd. "If so. her
language is not familiar to me. But 1
don't understand her composure. Her
race believed that they would live again
on earth in the same bodies, and may
be that accounts for it."
By this time the girl had made q
hieroglyphic upon the paper. Cardan
took Il and said Immediately: "Ches-
dekw
The girl looked at him expec.antly.
He returned her gaze with bewilder.
ment. Suddenly he sprung to shelf
and took from 1t a wooden replica Of
some mummy. On its front wns single
hieroglyphic figure precisely similar of
the one the girl had made on tho paper.
a look Of JOY leaped into her earnest
dark eyes.
"They knew each other" cried Car
dan, excitedly.
"Who didT' exclaimed Haverd, who
had watched the whole scene with great
curiosity.
my two mummiesw
As he said this there was slow,
sizzling sound from the cabinet, follow
ed By an explosion that blow out its
whole front. In the side opposite the
one the girl had come out OF mummy
was seen lying on: the floor, thrown
from an iron.chair by the shock. Cardan
started wildly, with an expression Of
the utmost horror, disappointment and
surprise in his face.
"lt's wreckedm he gasped.
"What ISL" asked Haverd.
1.-THE apparatus"
Meanwhile the girl flew towards the
mummy, which was unusually well pre-
served. The head was OF fine contour,
the features were regular and the hair
curled gracefully ABOUT the brow.
A look seemed 10 satisfy her. She
turned TO Cardan with clasped hands
and appealing eyes. Cardan stupidity
shook his head.
Then followed scene that is craven
on Haverd's heart to this day, though
he maintains strenuously that it was all
illusion. The girl, as il siezed with
wild despair, impuleively snatched q
knife from the bench and plunged it
into her heart. She sank to the floor,
and with that gradual, steady transfer
nation that had brought the rose to life,
her figure was resolved into the shriv-
eled and shrunken condition OF
mummy!
Garden stared ut the object with in
credulous eyes.
be possible? Love is an attribute of
the soul 1t was there! She cared not
to live without him."
"Well, DOCTOR" said Harverd, quietly
but with an effort, ~ have spent very
interesting evening indeed. As q mnsi-
chm, You are an expert. ! trust l may
have the pleasure Of calling again"
THE soul, the soul" mumbled the
doctor tonelessly to himself, "it was
there! Love in quality of the soul"
Without saying anything further
Haryerd stepped through the door and
swiftly went from the house, leaving the
chemist staring at the door.
When he reached the open air, Hav-
erd said to himself: at was the joint
effect Of mesmerism and legerdcmain-
nothing else The incident at the bill
linrtl table proves it." As he thrust a
hand into Ills coat pocket he felt some
thing soft. cts the rose" he said.
Artificial" lie continued, pulling out
and smelling it. "Sprinkled with Turk.
ish oil of roses and distilled water"
Then he pulled leaf from the calyx
and examined it closely. 1t was unmis-
takably vegetable fibre.-Erchdnge;