Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-07-08


front of the bureau in the little room.
with her long. black hair hanging
over her shoulders while she searched
for something in the topmost drawer
in utter ignorance OF my presence.
l gazed upon her moment and
called her name She turned toward
me with a look of widest surprise.
which quickly changed to one OF JOY
as she rushed toward me with. out
stretched arms crying aloud my
name / advanced toward her. AS
she threw the curtain further back. in
her wild state. her foot caught under
rug which lay in the doorway aud
she began to fall. ! leaped forward
and caught her in my arms before
she had fallen completely on the floor.
raised her gently and placed her upon
the lounge. not yard away.
Her sister had heard the noise we
had made and came running in. Mary
did not speak. | did not seem to be
excited and can ever remember in
the dream having attributed her quiet.
as she lay upon the couch, to faint
ness Her sister babe me enter an
adjoining room to the right which
did. seeming to know that 1T was the
sisters desire TO be alone with her
while she prepared her for bed and
the treatment necessary to resuscitate
her.
lin this other room l began 10 feel
alarmed. and endeavored to allay my
fears as well as 10 divert my
thoughts by examining things close.
ly. A door with q broken glass
opened out upon a driveway. VIII ich
seemed TO have been newly paved
and which led to the street few
steps away. A civic procession of
some kind was passing at which l
gazed intently. at FIRST through the
broken door then stopping out upon
the drive l seemed TO have forgotten
Mary. advanced but few steps
when slipped upoH the icy pavement
and fell to the ground The imagln-
airy fall woke mo with start l was
much excited but my nerves sson be-
came quieted and my sleep was nor
NAL during the remainder Of the
night
80 muck for the dream. and now
the sequel
Il arrived home safely. and at once
inquired about the girls Mary and
her sister for the dream had mado a
wonderful impression upon my mind.
which grew rather than diminished
as time 'went by. They were we'll
but had moved to another portion OF
the city only u few days before.
Strange thought |. i will go at
once and find them
Il found the homo with ease hav-
ing been directed by my father. A
domestic upon a stepladder with IL
scrub brush in hand was engaged in
washing the woodwork and pane OF
glass in the transom. and, at the
same time completely obstructing
the front passage. l was told TO go
to the rear door. l did so. and
knocked. This was the very house /
had seen in my dream. even to the
minutest detail Ny knock was an
swered by the sister, who did not
greet me with surplus OF cordially
She informed me that Mary was in
the front parlor, and withdrew from
the room without so much as adj
dressing me dozen words. Even
her Information concerning Mary was
erroneous. as will be seen.
The room was identically the
same one which | have already de-
scribed rs having seen in my dream.
even TO its disorder the pair OF ladys
shoes the lounge the curtains the
unhung picture resting on the floor
everything; l was stricken. bewil-
dered. The dream flashed through
my mind like lightning.
There stood Mary before the old
bureau mirror her hair hanging
loosely over her shoulders. trembled
violently from fright BY q mighty
exertion called her name. which
was the first intimation she had of my
presence. as she seemed to have ell
tered the little room while | was
silently examining my surroundings
in the other. She turned. halted a
moment and rushed toward me call
ing out ''Oh. John. John My
dream! My dreamn These were her
only words. She was falling. Her
face was as white as a corpse. I'M
PEELED by instinct l ran toward her
and caught her in my arms and laid
her tenderly upon the couch. The
same couch. Her sister entered.
My God! | shall never forget the alb
solute terror which seized me at that
moment | was wild. My awful
dream was being enacted in stern
reality. and | was one OF the helpless
powerless actors, Mary seemed to be
unconscious; at least she uttered not a
word. The sister motioned me into
the other room to the right. l went
| acted like machine. | seemed 10
be impelled by some unknown power
or influence My senses seemed to
have left me. l wondered il l were
not dreaming the dream again and
would awake with the fall which
seemed TO know would inevitably oc-
cur No; it was real. / even eX-
amined the room as / had dore ia my
dream. 1t was the same The glass
was broken from the door. / looked
out. A procession was coming down
the street 1t was too much; felt
myself growing faint-dizzy. /