The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-09

| ing, isn't it? call 1t the dream gown
of the Japanese ambassador, for al
! though I bought 1t in a curiosity shop
| in Nuremberg, 1t 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" Waynflete explained.
Il never saw the ambassador. and nei-
| ther did the old German lady who
| kept the shop. She told me she bought
| 1t from a Japanese acrobat who was
out of 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 1t to him as a reward of his
skill and that he never would have
parted with it If he had not been dead
broke"
stuyvesant held the rope up to the
light and inspected the embroidery on
the skirt of il.
Yes" he said, at last, this would
account for it, l suppose. This bit
here was probably meant to suggest
the we'll where the head was washed
--See?"
II see that those lines may be meant
to represent the outline of spring of
water, but / don't see what that has
to do with my dream" Wayntlete 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 well in which was
washed the head of Kotsuke no Suke,
the man whom the Forty-Seven Ronins
killed. You know the story?"
II read 1t In Japan. but" began
Cosmo.
You had that story stored away in
your subconsciousness," Interrupted
his friend. And when you hpynotized
yourself by peering into the crystal
ball, this embroidery it was which sug-
gested to you to see yourself as the
hero of the tale--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
.accio-until the enemy was off his
guard and open to attack"
Il think | do recall the tale Of the
Forty-Sercn Ronins. but only very
vaguely" said the hero of the dream
| For all | know I 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 Perian dragon and
| my lberian noblewoman?"
| Paul Stuyvesant was examining the
dream gown of the japanese ambassa-
dor with minute care. Suddenly he
said: OH" and then he looked up at
| Cosmo Waynflete and asked: What
l n - thnSn h,If
old coins.'
| "They are old coins" the other an
swered: 1T was fancy of mine to
utilize them on that japanese dressing
gown. They are all different, you see.
The first is"
Persian, isn't it?" Interrupted stuy.
vesant.
Yes" Waynflete explained. "it is a
Persian daric. And the second is a
Spanish peso made at Potosi under
Phillip II. for use in America. And the
third is 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 field at Tarrytown
near "Sunnyside."
Then there are three of your adyen-
lures accounted for, Cosmo and easily
enough" Paul commented, with obyl.
Gus satisfaction at his own explanation.
Just as the embroidery on the silk
here suggested to you after you had
hypnotized yourself that you were the
chief Of the Forty-Seven Ronins. so
this first coin here in turn suggested
to you that you were Rustem. the hero
OF the Epic OF Kings You have read
the Shah Nameh?
| Il remember Firdausi's poem after a
fashion only" Cosmo answered. WAS
not Rustem Persian Hercules. so to
| speak"
That's II precisely" the other re-
sponded. and he had seven labors to
performs; and you dreamed the third Of
them, the Staying Of the grisly dragon.