Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-09-26
4 MIRROR VISION.

[ ill many heart. caught the ball of con- versation as il came her way.
 Tn my youth we never heard of this | thing you call mental telegraph, theoso- i phy and the like, but every now and then there took place, as now, occur renccs which puzzled the thoughtful, though they had no name to give the | phenomena. But, like most young girls, I was skcPtical of all that was not di- rcctly natural when I thought of it at | all, which was not often, until I had the experience I am going to tell you of, 1 which was 90 strange that it upset me for some weeks, which agitation came not 50 much from the real shock and fright that I suffered as from the mys- teriOus circumstances that attended it. 1 ''My Own home was q country place some , miles from large city, where | I had several families of relatives whom visited once or twice year or whenever there was to be given any ball or opera or festivity of sufficient importance for nc to desire to attend | it. 1 was just : when a royal person. age from Europe came across the pond to get peep at the Yankees, and though democratic tu the point of being rabid every manly head was uncovered in the country, every manly throat ached with cheering this parsonage, and every feminine heart beat high with the hope of having the royal eve rest for mo- ment upon the new gown which was to bc had at all hazards if the family dincd OH potatoes a!oi.r for a year to come.
 'Th,rc We're to bc series of enter s.,-,, | l.. ncSs. and !, like all the rest of the world, must a;;c,id i'll Ill inc Gncry my fathers ample means allowed me. From my mothers side of tho family had inhcr- itCd some very fine diamonds, amount ing in V3lUc to over $lO, GOO, and even a great deal IIorc in those days. when these gems were not 50 common. and on this occasion tc..S,d my father to let ne vc.:r them.
 II hal nu mother to tell me that such rich jy,Yylry Was Hot in tho best uf taste on u:ic.l y0un. .l!.d ;ll unmarried wOm- an. so when staTied for the city carried the di:l,uullCiS with IIc. But my maid was an elderly woman, who had also been rv nurse since my mothcrless babyhO1d. and the jewels were in her care Cnf1r. unately, however, Marian ! Icing confined to her bed was depend Cnt on my aunt's maid for services in my dressing, etc. In order to tighten this woman's duties which were heavy. l. as ny cousins also frequently required !. her ail as hair,iresScr and seamstrcss. looked after nly clothes and waited on i.Iy-vIf ;Is much as possible, performing such acts of my toilet as I could.
 ,Y. .f. after returning from reception at the house of Il foreign consul, disrobed myself of ny trained evening dress, and slipping on loo,c sack sat down to brush IIy hair before retiring. My scat w;ts jE-t in frout of large glass above my dresser, or what was then called a bureau. On which I had placed the . jcwelry I had worn-the diamonds have spoken of.
 = As I piled the brush my eyes nat - urally fell on this mirror, which reflect ed tho room behind lne, and as con, tinued to look saw evolving itself ap parently from empty air the figure of q man. He was well dressed. even stylish lv, and was after a fashion hands some, but dcathly pale, and his eyes glittereC feverishly.
  seeming tO look only at the diamond, ,, loosely sJrcwn upon the marble befor, t me. but his right hand was thrust int, his breast and as he stood over me h. - suddenly ierked 1t ont and raised higl above me a small Spanish dagger, tn, hilt of which was of dead gold, ol Etruscan gold, as it is called. This wa set with Tubies, which I noticed witI ! F. displayed ill moments of danger. Up t. - this point had been too terrified to cal out or even to move, not even turninj my head tO look around me, but watch L ing the movements of the assassin a n m they were reflected in the mirror. Blu re as he brought down his hand with 1d swift, rlurderous motion to strike m w from my chair with a single blow tn 1n rpell that had held me snapped, and
 t9r.ing 10 my feet with a shriek of ter
 for and rushed to the door.
 Even as I ran I wondered at not en S Buntertng the man, but though coul
 not remember afterward seeing him a
 all | did not stay, but unlocking tn
 door flung it open, still screaming a t', fast as the sounds could issue from m
 lips It happened that two of my youn
 men cousins had fingered later tha
 the rest of the family at the entertain
 ment referred to, and having just com
 in were coming up the main staircas . close to my room- Rushing to these, o. threw myself into the arms of the neal
 est, Christopher, shrieking, The maI
 the manr
 ' ''The two young men hurried to III to room and looked about, but could see |
 one The windows were all fastened
 and as I had myself just come out ( ,s. the single door to the apartment, an . from which no one else could have slil n ped without our seeing him, the on U. chance was for the burglar to have col
 cealed himself in the room.
 By this time the rest of the hous
 hold was aroused, and not only II
 room, but the entire place, was tho
 oughly searched. The three windows -o the room were provided with heavy o
 fashioned shutters, two of them openiI F on the street, an unbroken descent
 over 40 feet, while the other had n
 been unclosed for years, for it look,
 almost into one in the next house, whit
 was also seen to be tightly secure
 The house itself was occupied by Q T l spectable family in straitened circur