The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-08-06

eAuuihS sehse oI immense prosperity and importance.
 Even in the brief conversation had with him with regard to the mysterious pathological condition of Miss Estelle Devereux, conversation during which the worthy mans parental anguish transpired plainly, he managed, incl. dentally, to allude to his courier, his daughters maid, his private equipage with which he jonrneyed. his suites o1 apartments, which were those usually preserved at the Archduke for travellers of royal lineage alone.
 Miss Devcreux was in an adjoining room, and presently we were hurried in- to her unconscious presence. The room, which was large, was filled with knots of men, young, old and middle. aged - professors, doctors, students. Miss Deyereux's maid, very demure young woman, with lowered eyes, sat by the lounge, where, outstretched, lay Miss Devereux's inanimate form.
 "One may be a doctor as much as one likes, but it is an incontestable, if repre-. hensible. fact that one remains man | for all that. Twill confess that the first thing that struck me was the young lady's beauty. In loose morning robe of very poetic and exquisite effect, she was from her fair head to her small slip per, visible beyond the hem of her dress, certainly most charming and attract i've vision.
 "1 don't want to do my profession an injustice, but must say suspec, that every man present felt the power | of her beauty. Even to old Schultze, the great authority on hypnotism (who had married his housekeeper suddenly one morning because, as he said, he must have some one to see that he did not for get his nightcap, without which he d. ways took cold, and he had no time to look for a wife), was quite aware of this fact. AS for Haskins, he was so Cver- come that he actually dropped his stick.
 "rhe maid got up and bent over her young mistress, smoothing something about her pillow.
 "'It is the most astonishing thing. gentlemen said old Devereux to us in hoarse whisper, but just about this time she is gifted with the most extraor- dinary clairvoyance. We had almost what you might call a "see-ants" here recently. You can ask her whatever you like and she can answer it.' "Haskins nudged me.
 "'Ask her something.'
 "I approached the couch. Miss Devereux lay rigid, her eyes closed, yet there was faint, warm flush on her lovely face. bent slightly over her with some questions, scarcely remem- Der what, but her lips began to move before had fairly begun.
 "'I see a man, she answered, two men. One is quite young, very tall, with blonde hair. The other is older, with gray hair. They come in together. I sec them coming. They pass over the bridge. They stop on the way. They are going into shop. I don't know just what kind of shop. can't see. It looks as though there were a great many little wooden boxes, with no covers, under a glass case. The two gentlemen are buying something. I cant tell; cant see.' The voice died away in sigh.
 "I stood dumb. I remembered that Haskins on the way had complained of being out of cigars and that he had, after passing the bridge, gone into shop and bought some.
 "The auditors looked at us though for confirmation. Haskins and I nod ded. Old Schultze grumbled some- thing about very unusual case in his beard. One or two of the professors came forward. One felt Miss Devereux's pulse. Rather weak, but normal
 "'Weak, sir; weak!' cried old Devereux in his sick room whisper. It's wonder she has any pulse at ail. Eats nothing - absolutely nothing! Hasn't for week, gentlemen
 "Schultze shook his head, came near CT, seized the girls delicate wrist in his grimy paw and raised her arm. The arm participated in the rigidity of the entire body.
 "'Curious! Curioss!'
 "'And yet the case presents features unlike any of the authenticated cases on record said Dr. Holm to Dr. Balm.
 "Haskins, the next day, came for me. as he had done before, and, as before, Miss Estelle Devereux gave us an ac- count of the way we had taken to reach her, with various other details as to now I had employed my time during the morning-which only Haskins, who had dropped in upon her for only little while, could have known.
 "This state of affairs continued for upward of fortnight. Miss Estelle DevereuX's frances occurred at the same hour every day and lasted for the same length of time, and were always accompanied by most curious exhihi- tions of clairvoyance and clairaudi- ence, of which she had never given evi- dence at any other period of her life. Mir. DevereuX still asserted that she ate next to nothing, and the statement was verified by the attendants of the Arch duke hotel.
 "The wise heads of the university town for once were at loss, and shook their unkempt masses in vain before the puzzle