The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-09-08

.HI ~. tA.s ., lei WAS the origin of ouf
IN as .it.ing in mourning for 80
d. "a of time the old Jews be
l,, .-- ramaiIc cd about its earthly
hon .ii. 4..ing its final fight to spirit
land. ALd as no effort to turn my mind
in ahutitcr direction WAS effective, let it
90. III Ed.il was somewhere out in the
wide universe away FRI m earth, but was
suscertiiilc to my call, it made no differ
encc how far or near she might be- If |
Kept my mind fixed on her, / would find
her Ard II not, what were better than
remain 4 in thought close to all that was
Lett of heF on c rth.
At length vault and coffin opened as If
burst of sunshine had broken the bars of
death, ard | could see her body as plainly
us l see you. Walls of rock and ircn doors
were no barrier, and as looked upon tho
form l loved the realization came to me
that this vision or my love was not wax
ing dream. And then great hope flashed
up that
What If had found my Edith's soul
and 1t was still lingering around her body
Then could draw her to me and tell her
that loved her.
THAT very moment the vision faded
Try as might, 1t was but cropping in tho
darkness to attempt to find her. could
not recall her. The vision, happy even in
Its sadness, was gone, and was left alone
confess that there was loneliness about
it that l never want to experience again.
Still could not resist the belief that
for few minutes l had established COM
munication with Edith. That seemed o
fact not to be disputed. But I'd lost her
81 would not give up the search. What
lover WOULD l continued to keep my mind
fixed on her in the hope that she would
appear again, and that l might draw her
spirit into communication with mine.
And at last succeeded, but where and
under what circumstances do you suppose
1t wasp l saw her body in light, covered
wagon being driven rapidly along the
streets of the city. And as followed the
way became familiar, and saw that she
was being taken to the college was at
tending. And when the wagon stopped, I
saw her lifted from the wagon and borne
up to the dissecting room.
"And then 1t seemed as II she called me.
you can guess what did. Within half
an hour was at the college climbing the
stairs to the dissecting room. A white COW
cred body was lying upon the table in the
center of the room and the professor and
one or two students were standing near. 1t
was then about o'clock in the morning.
l fastened up to the silent figure on the
table and drew down the sheet from the
face 1t was Edith. The physician was
not surprised to see me, as it was not I'M
usual for some of the students to be in the
room when corpse was brought ill., and
after saying good morning told me that
new subject had just arrived, which would
BIO dissected the next day. l called him to
one side and told him whose body it was I
could see that he was not only surprised
but nlso shocked, as he had no idea where
the man engaged for the purpose had Sc
cured his subject Very quickly added
that believed life had not yet left the
body, and while unable to give reason
which might satisfy him that she had been
buried alive begged him to send the 9TH
or students away and make an experiment.
I was so much In earnest that he consented.
when we were alone with my dead
fondly thought of it as such in that mo-
ment-he said
"'We will try bloodletting If there is
any life in her, as you think, she may re-
gain consciousness then-that is, If there
Is any blood to how.'
HE took his dissccting knife and made
an incision In her arm. Blood did flow,
and Edith did return to life, and we took
her home to her parents that night.
But when she first regained conscious
ness she reached out her arms to me and
said:
"'I knew you would come, for I SOW
you. knew that you were searching for
me-
"And after that there was no question
but that she would be my wife. Omaha
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