Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-10
ments of Fraulein Haas vision.


My eye was ut once attracted 20 d
part OF the wall, near its base, Wien
was altogether unlike the rest. Most Oh
the wall was as bare OF anything lihe
vegetation as mill wall commonly IS.
but this part was covered Win hlle'
yeIlowiSh-green fungus on the DflthS'
and grass in the mortar OF the ihiet-
stices. This, | was satisfied. was t1c
spot. Under these bricks had lam, iof
eighteen months, the mutilated remains
Of the unfortunate LacrolX prObaDlJ i.
no great depth; hence the eagerness "
Steinhardt to cover them with SO wife
spreading n tomb-Slab as TINS liulcu
wall, and hence. also, probably, thl5
traitorous growth of green As l
looked, I wondered how much Stem
hardt would give now to be aDle "
move his Titanic tombstone ana re-
move his dead! The wall was TOO Sc
cure covering! 1t was the grand mis-
take of a strong. resolute ana oflSl1al
criminal-the enormous blunder OF Tie
bold. uncompromising villain, entlrely
confident in his security against every
risk Of discovery!
I hurriedly withdrew to consider my
course of action. I began to find that
I was in All awkward dilemma. MY
promise to Fraulein Haas forbade
public examination Of that spot, yet
how could my promise to Louise, that
her fathers remains should be proper
ly interred-how could that be fulfilled
without the discovery becoming public?
There was another point which gave
me pause: Suppose this rude grave,
broken into, and it's contents identified
as the remains of Mr.. Lacroix, how
could / show that Steinhardt had bur-
led them? How, then, could bring the
crime home so as to move him as [
desired?
| resolved to go to Freeman, and talk
the difficulty over with him. I had
seen little Of my friend since bis return
from London; he had been much from
home on some business of his denomi-
nation He did not even know yet Of
the successful result of our inquiry
upon old Jacques.
[ found him in his study, in which
he was always most at ease. In ac-
cordance with his request / posted"
him up to date" in my doings and
discoveries-from the finding of the
French papers in Jaques's cottage,
through the revelations at Basel, to
the discovery / had made a few min
utes before. He was most impressed
with my account of the visions Of Frau
lein Haas. He was something of a mys-
tic, of the misunderstanding kind well
known in these latter days, and he
would turn his attention to no other
point till he had found an explanation
of the Fraulein's experiences. His ex-
PLANTATION at least satisfied himself, and
it certainly was very plausible. He
described the phenomena rs magnetic
clairvoyance." Here, said he, were
two people who mad at one time been
deeply interested in each other, one Of
whom (the more sympathetic subject)
still thought much Of the other; the
one was highly nervous, the other was
strong-willed. The strong-willed per-
son was in an extraordinary difficulty,
in which he had to put Il resolute strain
upon all his resources Of mind and body
and memory. In his casting about in
his excited mood for aid to remove
his difficulty, he might well have
thought, If she were here!-she who
has been Of all beings the most de-
voted to me! Or, if 1 were only with
her, rid of this horrible businnssw
This strong wishing, this reaching out
of spirit for her, would sink to 4 mere
nothing when the diniculty of the time
was once settled, and the bond Of at
traction would sink loose and lifeless,
till it was drawn tense again, and
thrilled again with vigor when his need
of her returned upon him with new
difficulty. This would account for
Fraulein Haas's feeling of being drawn
as if away from herself at those times
when she had her visions.
Go Be Continued.) i ~