The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-30


stand, MacSksaugnassy agreed.
Nor /. eith@r," said Jephson- But
was thinking g something very different
altogether. Suppose man died with the
dearest wish # his heart unfuihiied. do
you believe tat his spirit might have
power to returS to earth and complete the
interrupted wGk?"
"Well, answered MacShaughnassy, ''if
one admits the>possibility OF spirits retain
ing any interesS in the affairs of this world
at all, it is certainly more reasonable to
imagine them engaged upon such task
as you suggest chan to believe that they &C.
cupy themselves with the performance of
mere drawing eoom tricks. But what are
you leading uTe to-"
why to this" replied Jephson. seating
himself across his chair and leaning his
arms upon ting back, II was told story
French DOCTOR The actual facts are few
and simple; az that is known can be read
in the Paris Police records of forty-two
years ago.
''The most Important part of the case,
however, is tie part that is not known,
and that will never be known.
1.-The story begins with great wrong done
by one man unso another man. What the
wrong was de- not know. / am inclined
to think, however, that it was connected
with woman / think that because he
who had beers wronged hated him who
had wronged with hate such as does not
often burn ins mans brain unless 1t be
famed by tha memory OF woman's
breath.
'Still that issonly conjecture, and the
point is immaterial. The man who had
done the wrong fled and the other man
followed him. ut became point to point
race. the first rEan having the advantage
whole world at1 the stakes were the first
mans life.
Travellers were few and far between in
those days, an6f this made the trail easy to
follow. The FIRST man, never knowing
how far or howSnear the other was behind
him, and hoping now and again that. he
might have baEied him, would rest for
while. The second man, knowing always
just how far ths, first one was before him,
never paused, asld thus each day the man
who was spurred by Hate drew nearer to
the man who Was spurred by Fear.
"At this toNn the answer to the never
varied question: would be:
lat o'clocx last evening, M'sleur.'
'Seven-ah. eighteen hours. Give me
something to est quick, while the horses
are being put tt.
"At the nexs the calculation would be
sixteen hours.
Passing aoneley chalet, monsieur
puts his head osIt of the window:
"'How long since carriage passed this
way with tall fair man inside?'
"'Such a one5passed early this morning,
M'sieur.'
Thanks. Dive on. A hundred francs
apiece if you aye through the pass before
daybreak.'
"'And what Cor dead horses, M'sieur?'
"'Twice theif value when living.
"One day the man who was ridden by
Fear looked VI, and saw before him the
open door of as;athedral, and passing in
knelt down anG prayed. He prayed long
and fervently, Sor men, when they are in
sore straits, clu3ch eagerly at the straws of
faith. He prayed that he might be for
given his sim. snd, more important still,
that he might be pardoned the conse-
quences of his gin. and be delivered from
his adversary-and few chairs from him,
facing HIM, knet mis- enemy, praying also.
"But the sec0nd mans prayer, being
Thanksgiving merely, was short, SO that
when the first man raised his eyes he saw
the chair topx with hooking smile
''He made II, attempt to rise, but re-
NAMED kneeliBg, fascinated by the look
of Joy that sholse out of the other mans
eyes. And the other man moved the
high-backed chairs one by one, and came
towards him softly.
Then, just IS the man who had been
wrongcd, stood beside the man who had
wronged him, fall of gladness that his op-
portunity had come, there burst from the
cathedral towee a sudden clash of bells,
and the man wsose opportunity had come
broke his heat and fell back dead with
that hooking smile of his still playing
round his moush.
"And so he Gay there.
"Then the mzn who had done the wrong
rose up and passed out praising God.
what becana, of the body of the other
man is not knoNn. 1t was the body Of
IsoI A.
cathedral. Thefe was none to identify it,
none to claim Il.
Years passed away, and the survivor in
the tragedy became worthy and useful
citizen and nCsed man of science.
I'm his laboratory were many objects
necessary to hir1 in his researches, and
prominent amGng them stood in a GER
tain corner a lSuman skeleton. It was a
very old and m5ch mended skeleton, and
one day the losg expected end arrived,
and it tumbled 10 pieces.
''Thus it became necessary to purchase
another.
"The man of acience visited dealer he
we'll knew: sttle, parchment-faced old
man who kept = dingy shop where moth
ing was ever Sid, within the shadow of
the towers of Nz,tre Dame.
1.-THE little Sarchment-faced old man
had just the gerry thing that monsieur
wanted-.a sinNllarly fine and well-pro-
poItiOucu StuCy. II SuOulu De sent
round and set tsp in monsieur's laboratory
that very afterrsoon.
"The dealer vas as good as his word.
When monseu5 entered his laboratory
that evening, tl:e thing was in its place.
Monsieur seated himself in his high
backed chair. And tried to collect his
thoughts. Butsnonsieur's thoughts were
unruly, and INCLINED to wander, and to
wander always IN one direction.
Monsieur oEened large volume and
commenced TO read. He read of man
who had wrors.ed another and fled from
him, the other zman following. Finding
himself reading this. he closed the book
angrily. and weelt and stood by the win
dow and looked out. He saw before him
the sun-piercedsn nave of great cathedral,
and on the st'snes Law dead man with
hooking siniis upon his face.
"Cursing hirzself for a fool, he turned
away with laugh. But his laugh was
short-lived. for5it seemed to him that
something else IN the room was laughing
also. Struck suddenly still, with his feet
glued to the grcsind, he stood listening for
awhile then sought with starting eyes the
corner from welere the sound had seemed
to come. Butsthe white thing standing
there was only yrinning.
Monsieur wsped the damp sweat from
his head and hsnds and stole out.
"For coupieSof days he did not enter
the room agais. On the third, telling
him that his ie=rs were those of hysteri-
cal girl. he opei:ed the door and went in
TO shame himself. he took hrs lamp in his
hand, and crossing over to the far corner
where the skeles on stood. examined it. A
set OF bones bought for q hundred francs
was ne chiids 10 be scared by such u
bogy'