The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-04-09

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self; and then in the intensity of your
vision you were able TO see figures in
| the crystal-with one of which visual
zed emanations you Immediately identi-
fed yourself. That's easy enough, 1
! think. But don't see what suggested
TO you your separate experiences.
recognize them, of course"
"You recognize them?" cried Wayne
fete in wonder.
81 can tell you where you borrowed
every one of your adventures" Stuyves-
ant replied. ''But what I'd like TO
know now ss what suggested to you just
those characters and situations. and
not others also stored away in your
subconsciousness."
So saying he began to look about the
| room.
my subconsciousnessp repeated
Waynflete. slave ever been a samu-
raj in my subconsciousness?"
Paul Stuyvesant looked at Cosmo
Waynflete for nearly minute without
reply. Then all the answer he made
was to say: That's queer dressing
| gown you have on"
1T is time / took il off," said the
| other, suiting the action 10 the word.
ut is a beautiful specimen of weav-
! ing, isn't it? / call it the dream-gown
| of the Japanese ambassador, for al
though bought il in q curiosity shop
in Nuremberg, il was once, really be-
| lieve, the slumber robe of an oriental
| envoy"
Stuyvesant took the silken garment
| from his friends hand.
"Why did the japanese ambassador
sell you his dream-gown in a Nurem-
berg curiosity shop?" he asked.
"He didn't" Waynfete explained.
"I never saw the ambassador. and nei-
ther did the old German lady who
kept the shop. She told mo she bought
| it from a japanese acrobat who WA
| out or an engagement and desperately
| hard up. But she told me also that the
acrobat had told her that the garment
had belonged to an ambassador who
| had given IL to him as a reward of his
| skill and that he never would have
| parted with it if he had not been dead
broke"
Stuyvesent held the robe up to the
| light and inspected the embroidery on
the skirt of it,
'Yes," he said, at last, "this would
account for 1t, suppose. This bit
here was probably meant to suggest
the well where the head was washed,
| -see?'
al see that those lines may be meant
to represent the outline of spring of
water, but 1 don't see what that has
tc do with my dream" Waynfete an,
swered.
Don't you?" Stuyvesant returned.
"Then I'll show you. You had on this
| silk garment embroidered here with an
| outline of the we'll in which was
washed the head of KotsulSe no Suke.
the man whom the Forty-Seven Ronins
killed. You know the story?"
IL read it in Japan, but" began
Cosmo.
"You had that story stored away IN
your subconsciousness," interrupted
his friend. "And when you hypnotized
yourself by peering into the crystal
ball. this embroidery it was which sug-
gested to you to see yourself as the
| hero of the talc-Oishi Kuranosuke, the
chief of the Forty-Seven Ronins. the
faithful follower who avenged his mas
ter by pretending to be vicious and dis
sipated-just like Brutus and Loren.
zaccio--until the enemy was off his
guard and open to attack"
| II think / do recall the tale of the
Forty-Seven Ronins, but only very
vaguely" said the hero of the dream.
"For all ! know / may have had the
adventure of Oishi Kuranosuke laid on
the shelf somewhere in my subcon'
sciousness, as you want me to believe.
But how about my Persian dragon
and my Iberian noblewoman?
Paul Stuyvesant was examining the
dream-gown of the Japanese ambassa-
dor with minute care. Suddenly ha
said: "Oh!" and then he looked up ut
Cosmo Waynflete and asked: what
are those buttons? They seem to be
old coins"
"They are old coins" the other an
swered; 'it was fancy of mine 60
utilize them on that japanese dressing
gown. They are all different, you see
The first is"
"Persian, isn't it?" interrupted Stuy'
vesant.
| EYES," Waynflete explained. "it is a
Persian daric. And the second is n
Spanish peso made at Potosi under
| Phillip III. for use in America. And the
third is a York shilling, one of the coins
in circulation here in New York at the
| time of the revolution--I got that one,
in fact, from the farmer who plowed 1T
up In a field at Tarrytown, near Sunny
side"
"rhen there are three of your adven-
| lures accounted for, Cosmo, and easily
enough" Paul commented, with obvi-
Gus satisfaction at his own explanation.
"Just as the embroidery on the silk here
suggested to you after you had hypno-
tized yourself that you were the chief
of the Forty-Seven Ronins, 30 this first
coin here in turn suggested TO you that
| you were Rustem, the hero OF the Epic