Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1895-07-13

''How should guess?" said she.
81 wish TO eyoke-my wifem
And there was q flesh outburst of
laughter, louder and more brutal, with
passion and menace underlying the
merriment
But Ida had emitted a cry.
BY q rustling of her skirts, he who
was listening at the door compre-
hended that she was on her knees on
| the carpet.
Benjamin.! Benjs min! You shall not
do thisr' she exclaimed, with sobs.
why not? People claim that l
made Mrs. Hawenport's life miser-
able. 1t is an idle tale that Injuries
me. 1t will be refuted when they shall
have heard the spirit of my wife
speak lovingly to me. For you will
address me from beyond the tomb in
very affectionate language; is 1t not
so, Miss Soutchotte?"
mo! No! You shall not do this! You
can not dream of carrying out your
intention. Listen to me, implore
you. For the four years that l have
been with ven l have always obeyed
you; everything that you have wish
ed | have performed; all that you
have imposed upon me | have endur-
ed. | have deceived. | have lied like
you, / have learned to simulate the
sleep of somnambulists, the frances,
the raptures; the burdens of men
seated on my bO'ly, pins thrust into
the flesh of my arms, have never
caused me to vince l have never ut
tered a complaint! Still more: behind
the curtain, mimickiRg far-off voices,
1 nave made mothers. wives, believe
that their sons, their husbands, were
coming from the other world to speak
with them, and in the salons, among
the furniture. under the lowered
lamps, robed in q shrOud or veil. l
have dared to imperSonate the vague
form In which eyes blinded by tears
recognized their beloved ones. Oh!
these sacrilegesl If you knew how /
dreaded theml You parody without
fear the eternal mysteries, because
you do not believe them; while l am
full of doubts and fears. Dieul II,
one day, at the very moment even
when l give myself to him, Death
should appear before me. raising his
arms in maledictions, II is to these
terrors that | owe the affection of the
heart with which l suffer and of
which l shall die: 1t is through them
that | anguish and that / drag along,
feverish, i'll and worn out. Eli bien!
Never mind! | belong to you entirely.
Dispose of me; you can do 1t, and |
wish 1t. Do ever complaint? But this
time, Benjamin. what you ask of me
is too much. Because of my obedience,
because of my sufferings, have pity on
me at last! Do not force me to play
the role of the poor woman who was
so beautiful and so good. Oh, what |
put this idea. of all others, Into your
head? Spare me, Benjamin-Benja- |
min, beseech your
He was not laughing now. AS there |
was a noise of furniture being over |
turned, a sound produced by a head |
coming In contact with a partition, II |
is probable that Professor davenport |
had violently repulsed Miss Ida. But /
the waiter did not enter, because the |
guests had not rung.
The same day, shortly before mid
night, in the salon of Mrs. johanna
Harding, forty persons were seated, |
facing the curtain that would present
" reveal the apparition of the spirit;
a solitary lamp emitted a very feeble
light in one corner of the room-that
light which tends to increase the dark
ness rather than to diminish it-and |
on everything a profound stiffness,
while the fire in the CRATE threw out
4 furtiye illumination, adding TO the
weirdness of the scene.
Never had Professor Hawenport an
peared to such advantage as on this
evening. The world of spirits obeyed
him implicitly, as though II were his
lawful right; he was truly the all
powerful ruler Of soulsi They had
witnessed hands without arms pluck
lowers from the jardinieres; an &C.
Gordon, played by an unseen agent,
had prodced exquisite melodies; the
most improVised questions had been
to in a remarkable manner
by rappings on the different articles
II furniture. Even the professor him
self entered into a somnambulistic
rance, was elevated from the floor at
distance of about three feet-accord-
ng to measure taken by Mrs. Johanna
aarding-and, his two hands full of
burning embers, he foated smiling for
| full quarter of an hour n the air.
But the most interesting, the most
decisive experiment promised since
he commencement Of the seance
would be the apparition of Mrs. Ara
BELLA davenport
THE hour has Gomez cried the me
lium. While every bosom rose and fell
With Impotence wrought by fear,
While every eye was strained In the (
righted anticipation of the coming /
'ision, Benjamin davenport stood up /
light near the curtain; in the penum- ,
IRA, tan and majestic, a helIish CLEAN
n his eyes-as though inspired by a
lemon, or even demon himself-he ,
vas truly terrible and beautiful.
"Arabella, come FORTH" he exclaimed
n commanding voice, with the ges-
ure of the Nazarene before the tomb !
f Lazarus
They waited. !
Suddenly cry is heard behind the I
a shrill, heartrending cry of l
upreme terror! the cry OF soul tax O
ng flight. I
The audience shudddered Mrs. Jo- I
anna Harding almost tainted. The G
Medium himself had appeared aston s
shed. .
He turned toward the trembling cur 4
ain, which, slowly raised, gave pas T
age to the spirit.
1t was young woman with long
lond hair, very beautiful, very pale.
nyeloped In a white robe, her uncov- =