Connecticut western news., 1897-02-18
CONN. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1s97

concerning frog which had been found alive in marble block. She was star tied. What if her cone contained some animal-a bear-a snake-goodness- whatl This girl had some sense. She actually reasoned. She felt that if it contained anything the mysterious ob- ject must be something higher, nobler than she, to so fascinate her.
 Should she smash it and end the mys- tery? Nol Why spoil forever her idol?
 Again and again she caressed it, but always one end of it. Suppose the end toward which she was so irresistible drawn were the head?
 Miss Mignonette, after reading the frog story, grew so crazed with the possible romance of the situation that she at last became possessed with the belief that there was a man inside. What if it were true? He could not be dead-no, only in trance. He must be young and handsome. Yes, he must be the idol of her dreams, for whom she had searched the world. Her future lord had been found at last. Dame Ma ture had granted her prayer and in the most romantic way ever conceived, yea, inconceivable even to the widest flight ed novelist, had enabled her to find her lover in stone.
 She would break the seal-the long seal that had hidden him from the world. She would dress to receive him. There should be no one else present He should awake from his long dream from the invisible world, should open his eyes on her loveliness, should awake to life and the world in her arms. She arrayed herself gloriously. Her dark hair was arranged with white bands about it. A simple flowing gown of white enveloped her form, and over it was the faintest white fabric of illu sion, so delicate as to deceive the eye. Her brown eyes, large and long lashed, shone with joy. Her feet were incased in tiny sandals The nails of her deli cate fingers shone pink hued, like the shell of pearl She was arrayed at last, ready with endearing terms to re- ceive her lover from his case of stone. Incandescent lamps shed soft, mellow glow over the room on to the cone, en- hancing the glorious beauty of the girl.
 With sharp chisel she began to in- dent crease the entire length of the cone. Gradually the crease deepened. Often she placed her car to the opening trying to catch some sound, some move ment. The opening arrived at depth where the cone could be split open with out injury to the inmate She inserted several chisels, and with hammer gen. tly began the splitting process.
 AS the tomb began to open she paused. She was scared. The man would really be as in death. How could she revive him unless he immediately came to lifef Suppose he were completely dead. What could she tell the authorities that which they would believe and not convict her as murderess?
 Gradually her courage came back. She would save him somehow. Had not nature granted her prayer and sent her husband in the most mysterious, TO- mantic fashion? Surely the power which sent him to her to be rescued would en- able her to restore him to life. She gave several taps, and the cone divided in twain.
 In the morning they found her in the museum i'll dead faint. She did not revive for many days Beside her were two halves of the cone of siliceous sinter The occupant which lay beside her was the limbless trunk of dead tree.- Exchange.