Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-03-10

vaguely and with which they connected
him in this faraway land Of India
Those who knew something of such mat
tiers asserted without hesitancy that thcy
believed him to be a mahatma, theosoph
zeal adept, one of the sage brethren OF thoss
| remote Thibetan converts whence Issues
! what is left in the world today of the wis
| dom of the east.
| These men were understood to be able tc
do strange things They could transport
| themselves with their astral body to dis
,tant parts, even while their material bod
remained motionless.
They had attained, by process of long
initiation and training, such control over
the occult psychical forces of nature that
letters written by them at one end of the
globe would fall at the other end into the
lap of those for whom they were intended
Dark and silent and deep eyed as was Bhao
Mira, it was not difficult to find ones self
ascribing the possibility of such transcend
ent powers to him.
But to Ethelind what he might be, what
he might do, mattered nothing If she was
happy that he spoke to her of himself, it
was that ne had thus spoken to no one else.
And she loved him. AS she raised her
eyes they gave up all their secret to him.
She had forgotten all else; she had no
memory for other ties, once dear enough;
no thought for her troth pighted but a
month ago, almost on this spot, to one who
was her own countryman-a stalwart, hon
est English youth and one who adored her:
She was in thrall. So perfect was her
young passion that no thought of conceal
ment came to her. She was like young
Naiad wooed by god. AS he looked down
on her now, his breath coming fast, she
opened her fowerlike lips and smiled ont
OF her heart at him.
Then the man forgot everything, and
STOPPING he caught her to himself. The
wide hat fell backward from her hair. Her
lovely face, in its rosy innocence, was close
to his. But even as he bent over it a film
appeared to pass between his eyes and this
vision of all his soul found desirable. lie
hesitated. Then abruptly he passed his
hand above the girls eyes. Her lids droop-
ed, her head sank upon her shoulder.
Bhao Mira lifted her bodily in his arms
and placed her on the bench. Her delicate
form was motionless, her face locked in i'm
mobility.
The afternoon light was waning The
Iete was about to close. The sounds of mu-
sic that had reached the terrace now ceased.
The man stood looking down at the white
figure. He had come literally to the ends
of the earth to find this last terrible temp
tation, for he loved this young girl and she
was the promised wife of another man. The
Hindoo had a rapid vision of that others
face. He had seen it once, a month before,
and he knew it was the face of one possess
ing the rare nature to which death alone
could be possible il its hearts faith were
betrayed.
And was this to be the elimination of
that long discipline of the ascetic, of that
long pursuit of wisdom, by the sacrifice of
all the impulses of the flesh, which had
led him, Bhao Mira, to that stage where,
indeed, as the vulgar OWNED, occult
psychical forces were subject to him, and
where mysteries were open to him before
which the world was blindp
Was this to be the end of all, that he
should lose all his ascendancy, by the
double moral fall of love for woman and
Of injustice to a helpless fellow beings
Ethelind under this new supreme influence
was as bird enSnared.
Who shall tell the battle of that mo-
ment2 He had saved himself, dashed the
cup from his lip at the moment of fruition.
She slept oblivious in her trance. OBJ
livious? Yes, and so she should remain.
Bhao Mira bent his dark face downward.
His piercing eyes were fixed for a motion
less instant on the sleeping features. He
raised his hand and touched her eyes and
brow. Then, without looking back, he
walked away.
He left the grounds of Wildwood Hall I'M
seen of hostess or guests. His absence had
not been noticed. Nor would Ethelinds
absence be remarked. Within few mo-
ments she would awake and return to her
friends. She would do SO calmly, scarcely
remembering that her mothers strange
guest had walked with her that day.
For Bhao Mira had consummated his
sacrifice to the end. AS she lay before him,
he had willed that all love for him might
depart from her breast. She would awake
as the Ethelind of u month ago, and only
such affections as she had then known
would she know now.
And yet the sacrifice had not been con-
wholly. No. One thing re-
manned to be done. That night Bhao Mi
ira shut himself in his room. On the fol-
lowing morning it was that young man
passing through western town awoke to
find strip of paper mysteriously pinned
upon his pillow.
"How did you happen to come back so
cried Ethelind, hanging day
later about the neck of him she was soon to
marry.
II don't know" The young man looked
grave. He told his strange experience at
is incomprehensible. Ask your native Hin
loo friend, Mr.. Bhao Mira, to explain 1t.
He looks as If he knew many strange secrets |
Of a psychical sort"
Ethelind laughed lightly. Eyes. people
said he was doubtless very wise man.
He's gone now, you know; gone back to In
liza. He was very nice, though rather grave |
ind queer"
She had forgotten all.-Exchange.
India's Real yegetarians.
The Hindoo's meal is simple affair."
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