Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-10-28

about his throat. though the door had
20 be broken in and the landlord prove
beyond peradventure that be was inno-
cent /of any completely in the sudden
taking of.
Things unseen which are palpabIe are
90 ultraast0nishing that / am little
erv0us over setting down my own eX-
rience, which goes on all fOurs with
old friends story.
MYSTERY OF A LIGHT.
then on the plantation, where
ing was an imperative virtue.
Dom was in the second story.
80 big windows. looking south,
tside Venetian shutters, always
Id night. The one door was ipg
Sau, opposite the fireplace. it
a small back hall, In wiich
~ Lan uD, from a sImilgr hall
the bFd I slept in sat with It's
lard against the wall, thus bring
almost flush with the door, and
making me face fully the fireplace end.
I aw0ke one February morning as the
biz clock down stairs was on the stroke
of five. My sisters slept below, In the
room corresponding % mine. Early as
4
them called me 20 know ii she must
sead black Martha, our maid, TO make
me a fire.
"Oh. no" I said, cit is not cold
enough for that. / will run down aud
dress bY your fire. D." Then / heard her
shut the door, aud began 20
gather my energies for plunge out OF
bed when saw a bright light shine
through the door at my head, defining
the square of 10 distinctly upon the wall
a. the other end.
"Ah. hap i thought, smiling, "Mar-
tia is determined I shall have the nre,
40 spite OF myself" So thinking, i
raised myself upon one elbow, and
looked over my shoulder at the door,
through which the light was momeutar-
ily growing stronger. 1 heard 10
sound, and began % wonder how Mar
tina, tbe heavy footed, had suddenly
shod herself with silence, when the
whole room became flooded with daz-
cling radiance, and two muscular arms
were thrust about my body-though i
saw nothing but the light.
They gathered me TO grip so hard
could feel the play OF their muscles
against my tbinly clothed flesh. felt
myself drawn iorci0lY little way from
under the thick bed ClOlhes-a closer
grip. another tug-then was flung
forciblY back on the piiiow-the light
faded spraDg up, and ran down stairs.
Ny first look was az the clock. IL was
exactly three minutes past i've. The
lamp sat untouched upon the corner Of
the mantel Martha was on her
knees reddenIng the hearth, with my
two sisters, each snug In her accustomed
corner.
"Who brought that light upstairs?'
I asked They stared bIaukly at me,
y Enthusiastically. None of US has
gone outside the door, since We called 10
you, minute or so ago.
is an the satisfaction I ever got.
re the only occupants of the
he outer doors aud windows
t-and the closet search failed
trace OF an intruder. No later
Experience has come 90 me, but
hing day shall recall the light
I saE, tbe powerful arms / felt.
A NEW YORK TRAGEDY.
have heard a story about an old New
FORK house that is at al points opposed
what be states as law. The house
ands far up town; further than that,
Is 90 the west side. Ii is a square,
bid red brick affair, standing little
ack from the street, and ordinary as
% be-, except that the dust OF twenty
Ars has settled undisturbed on its
nly closed shutters.
be story runs that five and twenty
rs back there we're To- this city
Dung doctor and his wife, well
ambitious, we'll hammered, but
rably pOor-sO rebeIu0uSly poor,
ed. they felt as though their pow
shut against them toe gates Of
disc. Chance threw ia the hus-
Kay a girl, fresh from con-
Awas an orphan, al heiress,
nearly blind. lie had been
I'M 70 treat her eyes, aud, finding
lmost friendless, decided 20 take
10 his owl home. But before she
he husband and wife had agreed
her as brother aud sister.
possible he should marry
feature out OF hand.
as apparently 4 worth a
base. Il Wog be the
IN the world Awiil
pr Of ca adore or
Aud her fortd g
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