The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-16

terror Slowly but steadily the white circle on
the wall. There dark mark in the center,
which gradually formed itself into the awful hand
whose writing pronounced doom. Instantly the
Word-painting of the Book of Daniel rushed into my
mind:
I'm the same hour came forth fingers of mans
hand, and wrote against the candestck upon
the plaster the wall of the kings palace; and the
king saw the part of the hand that wrote Then the
kings cOuntenance changed. and his thoughts
troubled him, so that the Joints of his lons
loosed and his knees smote against another"
And while these thoughts cOursed through
my burning brain the hand began to write. 1t traced
one fearful word. and only '"reke." Daniel
himself has translated that portentous symbol:
Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found
wanting"
The vision disappeared from my unwilling gaze,
and was again sitting in the darkness. How long
l remained cOmatOse 1 cannot say Ultimately
lighted the gas, and found that it 320 O'Clock.
The power of thought seemed to return to me slow
ly but after time 1 recovered my. mental faculties.
and began to try and unravel the tange. The har
Inclination theory being obviously impossible, began
to look for physical explanation. 1 was still at 1t
in dull kind of way when the dawn of another day
broke and then L began to think that 1 could u
light in a double sense.
placed table under where the hand had ap-
peared, and stood upon it. Putting my eye about
level with the writing, looked out of the window.
The direction not at right angles to the wall OF
the bedroom but inclined to the left and downward,
thus ending with view of a brick wall instead Of
looking squarey into the garden. This wall was the
back CT a modern stable. and quite blank, the creep
planted at the base not having grown up it, 1t
nnsighty. but it suggested further idea No
aStr yet and let myself out nOiseessy, and
made my way to the stable BY placing the loft lad
der against the wall and climbing up backward
managed to reach about the spot where my glance
from tie bedroom had been fixed. OF course to took
at the bedroom window it necessary to turn
to the right and upward 1t is elementary Law
of optics that the angle Of reflected light from plane
surface is equal to the angle of incidence roughly
estimated with my eye equal angle again to the
left and downward. The glance ended at the back
window of the first cottage in North Lane mirror
then, hung where stood would reveal in the bedroom
what going on in the cottage, vice versa. and
the distance not great
Il slipped back into the Whytes' house. 1
$50 o'clock. and everything still quite quiet.
went out by the front entrance made my way round
to the cottage in North Lane and raped loudly at
the cottage door intending get peep inside before
the usual hour for callers. After proracted inter-
val answered by sury looking man. half
dressed.
rs this Mr.. Smith's?" I asked. No better ques-
ton came into my head for the moment. and l had
foolisliy gone without ready prepared.
No" said the shortly. "Tompkns What
do You want at this time of day?'
The table in the had nothing on it; bur at
that moment, peeping round the man. my eye lighted
upon a piece of wire the floor, curled and silk
bound. 1t told its tale
"Tompkins the electrician hazarded, looking
at the wire.
Electrician? No." said the man. sukiIy but
with il-conceaed surprise. what do you want?"
Il want to see Count BeIloni his representa-