Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-02-09

on Sunday White waiting my BROTH
ers and sisters, for notmngncys. look +
the Standardization Of your cuntcm-
porary, if you please"
The play of lights, whilo the man
was talking, began to throw grcenish
pailor and &c NIKE S-.:a at hrAl .r.Ls.
Parent upontho orbits Of the eyes; then,
little 10y little. the spots seemed to grow
stronger, to blacken, to enlarge. The
features lightly picked out appeared
to change gradually, to take on gray
and confused tints, to slowly disappear
as under veil, "a damp vapor which
covered devoured, that face, now UNI
recognizable 1t has been said that the
manner i'll which this phenomenon was
managed was remarkable thing. 1t is
true, for this human body seemed liter
ally to dissolve before this curious
crowd, now become silent and frighten-
ed The work of death was accomplish
ed there publicly, thanks to the illusion
of lighting. The livid man who smiled
q few moments before was motionlcss,
fixed; then, passing through some singu.
lar changes, the flesh seemed to fall
from him in
Suddenly the play of lights made
him disappear from the eyes of tho spec
tators and they saw, thanks to rchcc-
tiCns made by mirrors, only skeleton.
1t was the world of spccters and the
secret of the tombs revealed to the
crowd by kind of scientific magic Ian
tern.
Bernardot did not desire to wait lon
ger to strike his blow-this was the cx.
act moment to do 1t, the psychological
momentl
The eager look Of tho man in the
sonbrcro revealed deep trouble. There
was in this look something more than
tie curiosity excited by novel spccta-
Gle The muscles of his pale face witch
cd as with physical suffering. In his
eyes Bcrnardet read an internal agony.
"Ah!' thought the police officer.
1.-THE living eye is a book which one can
read as well as dead man : eye "
Upon the stage the play of lights was
rendering even more sinister the tgu-
rant who was giving to this morbidlv
curious crowd the comedy of death. one
W0uld have now thought it was one Of
those atrOcious paintings made in the
studios Of certain Spanish painters in
the putridcro of a Wales Lcal Tho
flesh, by remarkable scientific conIbi-
nation Of lights, WAS made to seem as if
falling OFF and presented the horrible
appearance of a corpse III n state of de
composition. The lugubriuus vision
made very visible Shuddcr pass over
the audience. Then Bernardet, drawing
himself up to his full height SO as to get
good view of the face Of this man so
much taller and approaching as near TO
him as pos>iblc-in fact, so that his cl-
bow and upper arm touched the young
man 's-sloWly, deliberately dropped one
by one these words:
"That is about how NJ. Revere ought
to he now
And suddenly tho young mans face
expressed Il sensation OF fright, as one
sees III the face Of Il pedestrian who sud
denly finds tAat he is about to step upon
yiVer.
"Or how he will be soon, l." added tho
little man, with an amiablo smile
Bcrnardct dissimulated under this ami
ability and intense JOY. Holding his
arm and elbow in an apparently careless
manner close to his ncighbor rs he pro-
nouuccd ROvcrc's name, Bornardet felt
his neighbours whole body tremhle
and give very porceptiblo start Why
had he been so quickly moved hy
an unknown name if it had not recalled
| to his mind some frightiul thought:
| The man might, of course, know, as the
public did, all the details of the crime
but, with his strong, energetic face, his
resoluto look, he did not appear like a
| person who would be troubled by the
recital Of il murder, the description OF a
bloody ailray or ever by the trlghttuI
scene which had just passed before his
eyes III tho hall
g man Of that stamp is not chicken
| hearted, thought btrnuluct $50.
no. Hearing those words evoked tn,
/ image Of tine dead main, Revere. The
man WAS not able to master his vol mt
emotion, and he tremblcd as ii under
an electrical discharge The shuuQcr
had been violent, Of short duration,
however, as ii he had mastered his
emotion by his strong will In his III
voluntary movement he had displayed %
/ tragic ,luquvucc. Bcrnaruct had seen i'll
| the LOOK, III the Z, sturc, i'll the move
| nIcnt Of the man ; head, something of
( trouble of doubt, of terror, as in nash
Of lightning III the darkness of might
enc sees the bottom of pool
bernardct sinilingly said to him:
This sight Is not il gay one.
mo, y tine man answered, and he al
so attempted to smile
He looked back to the stage, where
the somher play went on.
That poor Rovere!" Bernardct said
The other man now looked ut Ber-
nardet as ii to read his thoughts and to
learn what signiicatiun the repetition
OF the same numo had. Bcrnardet sus-
tanned with il naive look this mute in
/ terrogation. He allowed nothing of his
thoughts to he seen i'll the clear, child
like depths of his eyes lie had the air
/ Of IL good man, frightened by terrible
murder, and who spoke of the late VIC
tim as if he feared for himself. He
waited, hoping that the man would
speak.
In some of Bcrnardct's readings he
had come across the magic rule apllica-
Bile TO love-" Never 20; wait Tor the
other to come" Ne ire fac vonire)-
applicable also to hate, to that duel of
magnetism between the hunted man