Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-04-02

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brain has dreams"
Frank looked out of the window in ST
lence, and, by the glare of the gas-lamp,
| scrutinized his face with some appre-
hension. Participated something grew
some, although the surroundings were
neither gloomy nor romantic.
We were in Franks room, a second
| story front, in middle-class boarding
house in a middle class neighborhood.
| The windows looked out on a clean pro-
sale street, and the room was finished in
conventional style. Frank Chessman was
a medical student, now in his last year at
college, and he was not at all inclined to
be mystical, nor even speculative OF all
professions, none is SO intensely realistic
as the physicians. He cuts and carves
to the root, and is so intent upon prying
into the secrets of the body that he gives
little thought to the mysteries of the
soul. The heart is a machine to pump
blood, the lungs are chemical purifiers,
the brain is mass of gray matter-that
Is all. My young friend had not even
the average student fondness for prank
lsh decorations with bones aud skulls !;
his room might have been a bookkeep-
eTs.
Frank laughed softly, and, I was glad
to see, without any trace of uneasiness.
l had fOreseen discussion on matters
about which no man knows anything,
and nothing can be more wearsome than
that. So was disappointed when he
added. Let me tell you about sin
gular dream had year ago."
Every WE'LL" assented.
81 had gone to bed early" began
Frank, sand l am quite certain that l
did not overeat, and l drank no liquor
at all. am equally certain that l was
not in debt, love, or bad health. But
dreamed By ,the-way, did you ever
meet Van Orden?"
"Not that | remember"
IF you had, you would have remem-
bered him. He was a law student IN
the university; had free scholarship
from the city, believe; and in many
respects be was "A remarkable young man.
He was about my age, but much larger,
and always thought he was too hand
some for man. He had great black
eyes-soft as an italian girl's-crisp curly
hair, and complexion like peach. Not
a prig or a fop, mind He was on the
football eleven and baseball nine, and an
all-round athlete as well.
"Well?' I said, shortly ,
"Well, dreamed about Van Orden.
In my dream | was walking along the
edge of great high cliff which over,
hung the ocean. do not remember that
] l ever saw such a place in my waking
hours, and when thought it over after
ward, l came to the conclusion that
had read about such cliffs in England
and Scotland, and perhaps seen pictures
of a similar locality"
VERY likely" l assented.
"Well, l dreamed | was walking
along, when Van Orden came slowly
toward me, and as | stretched out my
hand to greet him, he seized me around
the body and hurled me over the cliff.
l fell down, down, an interminable time,
as you do in dreams, and then, which is
very unusual in dreams, l struck the
water"
"And awoke"
Ono, didn't. A smothered feeling
came over me, and then | saw my face
floating on the surface of the water, and
heard "A voice say, He has beea killed. ;
| Then | awoke, all in a trembe.'
"a disagreeable dream" | COM
mented, shut not unique or otherwise
remarkable"
81 am aware of that, I" rejoinel Frank.
"But it has sequel. bad another
dream week later. | was in a ball
room having jolly time, and presently
went into the conservatory. | may say
that in this and the subsequent dreams
not once was there anything familiar in
the surroundings, nor did l recognize
face-with single exception. had
been il the conservatory only few
minutes when Van Orden appeared in q
nearby doorway, and shot me, and |
died"
"Good gracious!" exclaimed, invol.
unfairly. -s.. .--.-.
"Singular, wasn't in We'll, month
later dreamed | was lying in nam
mock in a grove, which, in my dream |
knew to be somewhere in the tropics,
when Van orden suddenly appeared, and
strangled me-" l'---- ..s.
lone moment" cried. yHWere you
aud Van Order enemies or rivals in any
sense?" l - 80. $3.50 81 -.-s -.2
'"Not in any sense. had meant to