Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-01-15

claimed.
"Stop whom?"
"Didn't you see him-the man who
! Just went out?"
"Why should 1 stop him? Isn't he .
friend of yours?"
lies the man who travelled In the
carriage with me from Swindon."
Davis was out of the room like Hash
of lightning. When he returned ne re-
turned alone.
"Where is hep" / demanded.
"That's what / should like to know"
Mr.. Davis wiped his brow. "He must
have travelled at the rate OF about sixty
miles an hour-he's nowhere to be seen.
Whatever made you let him go?"
| "He has left his card. took It up.
| Il was inscribed George Etherege, COL
iseum Club He says he Is staying at
the Royal Hotel. don't believe he had
ANYTHING to do with the robbery. he
came to me In the most natural manner
possible to inquire for cigar case which
| be left behind him In the carriage. de
saws that while 1 was sleeping he
changed carriages at Exeter because he
suspected that some one was underneath
the seat"
"Did he, indeed?"
HE says that be did not look to see
II anybody was actually there because
well, something restrained him."
'I should like to have little CONVEX
satlon with that young gentleman"
II believe he speaks the truth, for
| this reason. While he was talking
there came the sound which have de-
scribed to you before"
The sort of oark?"
"The sort Of bark. There was moth
ing to show from whence II came. l
declare to you that it seemed to me
that il came out of space. l never saw
a man so frightened as he was. AS be
stood trembling just where yon are
standing now he stammered out thai IL
was because be had heard that souno
come from underneath the seat in the
carriage that he had decided that dis
erection was the better part OF valor,
and instead of gratifying his curiosity,
had chosen to retreat"
III.
Table d'hote had commenced when L
sat down. My right-hand nefghbor was
Mrs. Jaynes. She asked me II still
suffered any i'll effects from my fatigue.
~ suppose" she said, when / as
sured her that all i'll effects had passed
away, that you have not thought Of
anything of what l spoke TO you this
morning-about my theory OF the
mask"
confessed that I had not.
"You should. It Is a subject which
10 crotchet OF mine, and to which
have devoted many years-many curl
Gus years Of my lite."
~ own that personally I do not see
| exactly where the interest comes In"
mo? Do me q favor. Come to my
sitting room after dinner, and l Will
show You where the interest comes In"
How do you mean?"
"Come and see."
"She amused me. l went and saw.
| Dinner being finished, her proceedings
when together we entered her apart
ment-that apartment which in the
morning thought | had seen entered
by my fellow passenger-took me lit
| tie by surprise.
"Now, I'm going to make you my con-
6dant-you, an entire stranger-you
whom | never saw in my life before
this morning. am judge OF charac-
ter, and In you l feel that | may place
implicit confidence. l am going to show
you all my secrets; am going to induct
| YOU into the hidden mysteries; am 60
| ing to lay bare before you the mind or
An inventor. But IL doesn't follow be-
cause | have confidence in you, that l
have confidence In all the world besides,
30 before we begin, If you please, l will
lock the door,"
As she was suiting the action to the
word, ventured to demonstrate.
But, my dear madam, don't you
think" -.
81 think nothing: know that don't
| wish 10 be taken unawares, and to have
| published what l devoted the better
part OF my life to keeping secret"
"But il these matters are OF such a
confidential nature, assure you"
my good sir, lock the door"
She did. l was sorry that l had ac-
cepted so hastily her invitation, but |
Welded. The door was locked. Going
to the fireplace she leaned her arm upon
the mantsl-shelf.
.sDld 1t ever occur to you," she asked,
what possibilities might be open to US
| II. for instance, Smith could temporarl-
~ become Jones?"
81 don't quite follow you" 1 said. l
l didn't.
Suppose that you could at will be-
come another person, and in the charac-
ter OF that other person could move
about unrecoFnized among your friends,
what lessons you might lesrn?"
"I suspect" murmured. "that they
would for the most part be lessons OF a
decidedly unpleasant kind"
"Carry the idea step further.
Think OF the possibilities OF dual ex-
istence. Think OF living two distinct
and separate lives. Think OF doing as
Robinson what you condemn as Brown.
| Think OF doubling the parts and hiding
within your own breast the secret OF
the double: think of leading triple life;
think OF leading many lives in one-of
being the old man and the young, the
husband and the wife, the father and
the son."
"Think, in other words, Of the unat-
tainable."
mot unattaInabel" Moving away
from the mantel-shelf she raised her
hand above her head With a gesture
which was all at once dramatic. Il
have attained!'
"You have attained-to what?"
"To the multiple existence. 1t is the
secret of the mask. / told myself some
years ago that it ought to be possible 10
make mask which should in every re-
spect so closely resemble the human
counteuance that it would be difficult, IL
not impossible, even under the most
irving conditions, to tell the false face
from the real. made experiments. 1
,rccaaded T learned the secret OF the