St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-14

hep him. I went to medium after
medium. and | always heard stuff thai
John in his most sportive mood would
never be guilty of utteripg.
"We know this life, dearest" said the
doctor. Its a brief life at best; let US
live it the best way we know how; give
and get all the joy We can and be ready
for whatever death may reveal. Let us
live for the living, for the dead are be-
yond our keen."
Just then they heard a strange noise
"a shutting sound, as OF a blind man
slowly and timidly feeling his way
along a wall. They listened, and it
stopped.
feel as if some unearthly presence were
near
Nonsense, dearest. 1t was because
we visited the past. Forget the past,
ignore the future and embrace the
present. he said, with a tender effort
to be iOcund as he kissed her. Some
what treasured, she smiled back at
him, and he quoted, lightly: ut was
the wind, and nothing more"
The sound came again, and Carol said,
with an hySterical laugh: "Fll see if
there isn't a raven. Where is the mar
BILE bust of Pallas? All. here it is" and
she walked toward the etagere, pointing
TO a bust of the goddess of medicine, say
ing gayly, Lets find the raven"
Suddenly her attention was attracted
to a strange reflection in the long mir
rOr. Horror of horrors. She saw a skull,
seemingly moving through the air, COM
inS stealthily toward her. She turned
toward it and saw that it was slowly
creeping to the edge of the ebony table
OH which it rested. 20.
As Carol recognized the skull her
blood fairly curdled with terror. She
clutched her husbands sleeve, and with
diIating eyes and trembling fingers
pointed to it. trying to speak, but her
voice died or her lips. The doctor stood
transfXed by the uncanny sight, In
wardly upbraiding himself that he had
forgotten to remove the unSlghtly thing,
but Offering no word of comfort.
The diabolical reflection i'll the glass
on one side, and on the other SHE the
sinister reality, CHASTITY beyond descrip-
ton, with the Pickering CLEAN of fire
light playing OH it, stunned him with
bewilderment for the moment. They
both watched it in GREATNESS expect
ancy, fascinated and controlled by a su-
pernatural dread.
The words, Il shall come to you in
spite of heaven or hades," rang in Car
OILS memory. AS the skull tottered on
the edge of the table Its hideous teeth
seemed to part in a fiendish smile.
Wringing her hands in a frenzy OF
fright, Carol fell %swOoning to the floor.
AS she did so the skull gave an inarticu-
late click of joy and then leaped toward
her, and fell between her fair neck and
face, and swaying there, entangled
itself in her looSened hair. and seemed
to snug up the cavernous hollows of its
CHASTITY cheek to fit the soft contour of
her own.
The doctor saw a mist arise, and all
the old-wife tales of naturalization he
had ever heard or dreamed of surged
through his overweight brain. Doub-
ling himself as for some mighty effort,
he bent forward; the mist disappeared
it was but dust. He made a frantic
clutch at the grinning skull, which
seemed to glare with a triumphant
menace. He grasped it with an iron
like grip; it fell apart, and-a poor little
mouse. blinded by fright, sprang into
his hOSOm.