The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-06
An
Astral
Romance.

They were, 1 think, the happiest couple
it was ever my good fortune to meet
Margaret and Paul Fischer
They were so completely absorbed in
each other that they seldom took the
trouble to become acquainted with stran-
gers, not feeling the need of companion
ship. But, as good luck would have 1t,
they did allow me to come 10 see them,
and VIXEN l had known them long enough
| to dare to speak on personal mat
| ters, l rem arked upon the perfect har-
mony that existed between them. Then
| Margaret told me their story; and this is
the romance as she gave it to me:
Il viii tell you my side of the story and
| then Paul can tell you his.
| "As you may have discovered, l have
| dabbled somewhat in occult matters. l
| have always been natural musician and
! l play without difficulty any piece of mu-
| sic which l may pick up, although / have
| never taken a lesson or practiced' one
! hour during my life time. When l was
| child l had only one playmatC--he was
| little older than myself-and / was salts
| fled If l could hide away some where and
wait for him to come. The peculiar part
| of the matter was that no one else was
| able to see him, and as for myself, |
| never knew where he came from, nor did
| l ever see him until / looked up suddenly
| and found him beside me. Another pecu-
| lldT ldCI was lndl ne always NtAIIlcu Sill
| odd instrument, similar TO harp, and we
| would sit side by side for hours, he play
| ing, l listening entranccd, until suddenly
the music would cease and / would look up
to find the player gone. Then | would go
| into the house and play the music over
| again on the piano. This went on for
years and people considered me queer if
not quite crazy.
| II never could talk with my playmate
because he used language which l could
not understand. As l grew older drifted
away from him. Other affairs filled my
mind and it was seldom l would have a
vision in which the same form always
appeared, but seeming to grow older even
as l was.
Il began to study ocult sciences when l
was about Is years old. l attended spr-
itualists' seanCes and finally took up the
study of theosophy. Never, however, had
/ received a so-called test and any de-
ductions l made were of necessity found
ed upon the experiences of other people.
| "One night, after | attended a meet
ing, l sat down by the table at home and,
idly picking up pencil, started to draw a
portrait-I who had never in my life been
able to raw laight line. The picture
resulting represented young man with
dark eyes and hair combed straight back
from a wide, high forehead. The features
were deicately nodded and the mouth was
partially covered by moustache." (Here
she looked admiringly at her husband and
| then resumed the thread of her narratiVe).
"He seemed % or "a years cid, and was
| decidedly handsome. Underneath the
portrait l was impressed to write: This is
Paul -. You will soon see his face. 1
was told soon afterward that Paul Fischer
was d spirit and was the same little boy
with whom / had been acquainted IN my
childhood. l was told also chat he was
born in Alsace-Larraine and had never
| haa SiI Of r lie l
ured the portrait l had obtained, it had a
great fascination for me- but so much oc-
cuped my thoughts that ! had no time,
as a rule, to think much of the original.
! Six years passed by and found it neces-
| sary to 10 to a strange city. l reached
the town early in the morning and, hunt
. ing up a boarding house at once, l settled
down for a good rest before commencing
the business which had brought me to
the place.
las / was going to dinner that night ]
came face to face. in the l'all, with Paul
l started and so did he. en- with, i beg
, your pardon, madam he stood aside &c
! allow me to pass. l was too much dis.
turbed to be able to eat much, and l felt
his eyes were watching me all the time
; so ! soon left the table.
"In the evening Mrs. Porter, the woman
at whose house / was staying, knocked
| at my door and asked ne 10 come into
introduced TO Paul Fischer'-thc man o.
my dreams-the man of the portrait.
| recognized the face, the voice, the way Il
which the hair was arranged, in fact
@ every detail corresponded with my pre-
conceived ideas of how he would look
But my head was in whirl. My Pau
- Fischer was supposed to be spirit, bu
| this Paul Fischer was decidedly material
1T was just one week before the prob
lem was solved, / do not intend 10 s9ly'
, it for you-Paul viii do that To max,
matters short, however i will say that
0 found that he was my Paul Fischer. l
was just one month from the time l me
him until we were married. On our wed
ding day Paul brought out q portfolio
and asked me TO look through II and tel
y him what thought of his drawings. Tn
first sheet | picked up showed portrai
!, of myself / was represented sittinF at
table sketching a mans head, fAd tn
date was the same on which had don
), my first and only drawing six years be
fore. But Paul must tell you tine rest"
when / was a little boy in the oil
: country Il was born in Alsace-Lorrainel
people regarded me as being very pecu
liar ] would wander off by myself 70
: hours where no one could find me, car
rying my harp along, and when l re
turned | would Rave picture In my min
. of little, brown-eyed brown-haired CIR
y who listened to my music and reproduce
c everything which l played upon an instru
% ment different from any had ever seeI
l know now 1t was a piano, but then
had no knowledge concerning it, Som'
= times l would have long fainting spell
Z. and while | was unconscious would bal
A. BILE away about the little maid who coul
le not understand what l said, because st
rs talked a different language from my owl
~ Finally 1t began 20 be whispered abol
10 that / was possessed of devil and m
rS father was forced to send me away in o
% der to protect me.
n 81 came to America when / was IS yea
old, and, going TO the far west, amasst
quite a fortune. i did not see the frieT
Pa of my childhood SO frequently as l gre