Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-06-04


I think 50. Little wife, do you re
member the time when you We're loatl
10 yield yourself to Your love for me,
bccau~,. You felt that in making a union
with namrlCSS girl l was running q
terrible risk
Hush. Julian! My heart is i'll my
mouth. That fear has never died. In
the midst of all my happiness 1 have
never been strong enough 10 lift that
weight. Oh, l thought some day We
may IN sitting here blindly happy in ouI
ignorance and the truth will come! II
II i H. | fear il may be. will Julian feel
still that his course was wise? Will ht
love me quite a. much, quite rs dearly
A. before: Will there bc no shadow OF
regret in his heart: Oh. my husband, il
could believe there would be-, l should
b. 81 mi>,rahlc."
Julian gathered her TO his heart and
kissed her with reckless freedom.
Tomorrow, little wife, tomorrow,
you shall know what n fool have made
of myself
Lamar, believe You are awizard. "
Why"
How do You arrive nj Your conclu-
Sion>: 1t Is almost too strange for be-
lief. What possessed You 10 question my
wife 50 closely the other day about the
origin of that portrait"
Can't You guess: Had you forgot
ten"
Il don't understand you.
No? Do you rccollcct the description
given Ivy the janitor of the mysterious
lazy man whose anxiety for your well
fare after Annette was brought here was
sufficient TO get him TO the door, but
was never by any possibility strong
enough to induce him to mount the
stairs? Don't you remember the janitor's
dcSCripticn-middlv aged, smooth face,
small eyes near together, bushy eye
brOws, hooked nose and the rest? Max
,y. had been keeping my eye open for
such looking individual ever since. Is
there anything very remarkable about
that"
Well. l should never have thought
of il. You are the most modest man. 1
suppose You will also claim that there
WAS nothing remarkable about your anal
y$is IF the ghoSt::''
''Oh. YES. l shall That is different; that
i scientific. In that matter am apt to
bc vain MaNey. if you will carry your
memory back IL = conversation we had
in your sitting room some months ago,
Won will tlattrr me by rccollccting that
l almost predicted the result of your
wifc'S power of Installation. After the
experiment of Dr. Bently and myself
with the Cat-Or rather the accident we
witnessed, for it was no plan Of ours
and l became convinced that she really
had remarkable unconscious power of
retaining in her mind the image of any
thing that impressed her, thought a
good deal about il, and | distinctly rec
olicct telling yOu, when you were eX-
pressing some very CallOw views regard
in- the possibility of her remembering
events occurring during her illness, if
Size recovered her mind-I distinctly
rccollcct telling you then that if she
ever got we'll she would have absolute
" no memory Of that time, but that it
would TX perfectly possible for her to
carry = SrCEv into the future; that, for
instance | should not In overwhelmed
with surprise, if. though she could re-
mcmb.r neither Of Us, she should paint
vuur picture ur mime ~ an idea of her
OWN W; There i nothing ut all mys-
t,ri"U- i'll this affair, II Is pre>umablc.
and il actually happened BY induction
and deduction both we have demonstrate
cd it. and even i'll science that is rare
thing. my boyr"
What 4 great thing is your science
cried MaXcy. 1t disSccts a ghost rs it
does a monkeys body and makes of
grim and CHASTITY apparition the most
natural event i'll the world
DR.. Lamar smiled
~ am glad To hear you talking sense.
Time was when you We're little skep-
teal Perhaps if your wife keeps on the
way she has begun. affurding illustra-
lions Of the benefits of science, we shall
even make of YOU an cvolutioniSt one of
these days
MaNcy looked serious.
L shall hardly 20 as far "A that, EuS-
taco. hut l am ready to acknowledge
that ynu do many wonderful things.
And still we are i'll our infancy.
One Of these days, my boy, one of these
days"
Truly this man was strangely hopeful
and rNuhrrant for one who had just bid
den a long farewell to a sweetheart.