The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-06-23


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eoPrRlsHr BY NssloAH PRESS ASSOCIATION.
II THINK SO. Little wife, do you re-
member the time when you were loath
to yield yourself to your love for me,
because you felt that in making union
with nameless girl l was running q
terrible risll?''
Hush, Julian! My heart is in my
mouth. That fear has never died. In
the midst of all my happiness / have
never been strong enough to lift that
weight. oh, thought some day we
may be sitting here blindly happy in our
Ignorance and the truth will come! Ii
it is rs | fear it may be, will Julian feel
still that his course was wise? Will he
love me quito as much, quite as dearly
as before? Will there be no shadow OF
regret in his heart? Oh, my husband, if
l could believe there would be, should
be so miserablel'
Julian gathered her to his heart and
kissed her with reckless freedom. >.
Tomorrow little wife, tomorrow,
you shall know what fool have made
Of myselfp'
Lamar believe you are wizard. "
"Why?"
''liow do you arrive at your conclu-
sions? 1t is almost too strange for be-
lief. What possessed you to question my
wife so 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 recollect the description
given by the janitor Of tho 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' 8
description-middle aged, smooth face,
small eyes near together, bushy eye
brows hooked nose and the rest? Max
cy, had been keeping my eye open for
such a looking individual ever since. Is
there anything very remarkable about
that"
"Well, l should never have thought
Of it. You arc the most modest man. ]
suppose you will also claim that there
was nothing remarkable about your anal
ysis Of the gho't?'
"Oh, yes, shall. That is different; that
is scientific. In that matter am apt to
be vain. MaXey, if you will carry your
memory back to conversation we had
i'll your sitting room some months ago,
you will flattcr me by recollecting that
/ almost predicted the result of your
wifes power Of visualization. After the
experiment of DIR. Bently and myself
with the cat-or rather the accident we
witnessed, for it was no plan of ours
and 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 it, and | DISTINCTLY rec
ollect telling you, when you We're Cx-
pressing some very callow views regard
ing the possibility of her remembering
events occurring during her illness, if
she recovered her mind-I distinctly
rccollect telling you then that if she
ever got well she would have absolute
ly no memory of that time, but that it
would be perfectly possible for her to
carry a scene into the future; that for
instance, l should not be overwhelmed
with surprise if, though she could re.
member neither of US, she should paint
your picture OF mine as an idea of her
OWL No; there is nothing at all mys-
terious i'll this affair. 1t is presumable,
and itactually happened. BY induction
and deduction both we have demonstrate
ed it. and even in science that is rare
thing, my boyp'
What great thing is your, sciencei'
cried MaXey. ''It disSects ghost as it
dees monkeys body and makes of a
grim and CHASTITY apparition the most
natural event in the world. "
Dr.. Lamar smiled.
81 am glad to hear you talking sense.
Time was when you were little skcp-
teal. Perhaps if your wife keeps on the
way She has begun atfording illustra-
tions of the benefits Of science, we shall
even make of you an evolutionist one of
these days"
/ Maxey looked serious.
L shall hardly go as far as that, Eus-
tace, but | am ready TO acknowledge
that you do many wonderful things.
And still we are in our infancy.
One of these days, my boy, one of these
daysp'
Truly this man was strangely hopeful
and exubcrant for one who had just bid
den long farewell to sweetheart.