The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-04-09

of the Japanese ambassador, for al
though I bought 1t In q curiosity shop
in Nuremberg, 1t was once. really be-
lieve, the slumber robe Of an oriental
envoy"
Stuyvestant 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" Waynhete explained. II
never saw the ambassador, and neither
did the old German lady who kept the
shop. She told me she bought It from
Japanese acrobat who was out OF an
engagement and desperately hard up.
But she told me also that the Japanese
acrobat had told her that the garment
had belonged to an ambassador who
had given It to him as a reward OF his
skill and that he never would have
parted With 1t IL 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,
seq"
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" Wayneilete an
swered.
Don't your" Stuyvesent 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 Ronlns
killed. You know the story?"
II read It in Japan, but" began
Cosmo.
you had that story stored away in
your sibconsciousness" 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 tale-Olshi Kuranosuke, the
chief Of the Forty-seven Ronlns, 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"
81 think 1 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 0ishi Kuranosuke laid on
the shelf somewhere in my subcon-
seriousness, as you want me to believe.
but how about my Persian dragon
and my fberian nobiewOmRn?"
Paul Stuyvesant was examining the
dream-gOwn Of the Japanese nmbassa-
dor with minute care. Suddenly he
said: "Oh!" and then he looked UP at
CoSmo Waynefiete and asked: What
are those buttons? They seem to be
old coins"
They are old coins" the other an
swered; at was fancy Of mine to
utilize them on that Japanese dressing
gown. They are all different, you see.
The first is"
PERSIAN. isn't III" interrupted stuy-
ayes" wayneHete explained, ut is a
Persian daric. And the second is n
Spanish peso made at POtosi under
Phillip II. for use in America And the
third is York chilling, one of the coins
In circulation here in New York at the
time of the revoluUon-I got that one
In fact, from the farmer who plowed 1t
mp In field at Tarrytown. near Sunny
side"
"Then there are three OF your odven-
lures accounted for, Cosmo, and easily
enough" Paul commented, with obvi-
GUS satisfaction ut his own explanation.
Just rs the embroidery on the silk here
suggested to you after you had hyp-
noticed yourself that you were the chief
OF the Forty-seyen Ronlns, 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?'
II remember Flrdsausi's poem after
fashion only" CosmO answered. WAS
not Rustcm n Persian Hercules, so to
apeak?"
"That's It precisely" the other re-
sponded. "and he had seven labors to
perform; find you dreamed the third of
them. the Staying OF the Erlsly dragon.
For my own part. think should have
preferred the fourth Of them--the
meeting with the lovely enchantress-
but that's neither here nor there"
1T aeems TO me do recollect some
thing about that fight Of Rustem and
the strange beast. The faithful horses
name was RaSush, wasn't NJ" asked
Waynenete.
"ir Won can reoollect the shah
Nameh," stuyvesant pursued, mo
doubt you can recall also beaumont and
Flctcher's Custom Of the Country?
That's where you got the midnight
duel in Lisbon and the magnanimous
mother. you know"
No. didn't know" the other de-
Clarod.
'well, you did for all Tint" Paul
went on. 1.-THE situation r. taken from
one In a drama ~ Calderon's. and II
was much strengthened In the taking.
You may not now remember having
read the play, but the incident must
have been familiar 10 you or else your
aubcOnsclousness couldn't have yielded
II up to YOU so readily Mt the suggestion
Of TINT Spanish coin. could it,
~ did read Il lot OF 19llzabcthnn drama
IN my senior year at college, admitted
Comio. "end this piece OF Beaumont
md Fletrher's may have been one OF
thosc / rcad--but ] totally fail to re-
call now what Il was all about"
You won't have the cheek 10 declare
Tint you don't remember the Legend
* sleepy Hollow, will y0u2" asked
stuyvesart. VERY obviously II was
Inc adventure OF Ichabod Crane and the