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

terror. Slowly but steadily the white circle grew on
the wall There was dark mark in the center.
which gradually formed itself into the awful hand
whose writing pronounced DOOM Instantly the
word-paintng of the Book of Daniel rushed into my
mind:
I'm the hour came forth fingers of mans
hand, and wrote against the candlestick upon
the plaster of the wall of the kings palace; and the
king the part of the hand that wrote. Then the
kings countenance changed and his thoughts
troubled him, that the joints of his loins
loosed, and his knees smote against another"
And even while these thoughts coursed through
my burning brain the hand began write. 1t traced
one fearful word and only "Tekel" 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
remained comatose L cannot say. Ultimately
lighted the gas, and found that it 800 o'clock
The power of thought seemed to return to slow
ly; but after time my mental faculties
and began to try and unravel the tangle. The har
Inclination theory being obviously impossible began
to look for physical explanation. 1 still at 1t
in dull kind of way when the dawn of another day
broke and then I began to think that L could
light in double sense
placed table under where the hand had ap
pearet, and stood upon it Putting my eye about on
level with the writing, looked out of the window
The direction 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 squarely into the garden This wall the
back CT modern stable. and quite blank, the creep
planted at the base not having grown up it. 1t
unsightly but it suggested a further idea. No
astr yet and let myself out noiselessly and
made my way the stable. By placing the loft lad
der against the wall and climbing up backward
to reach about the SDOt where nv glance
from the bedroom had been fixed. Of course to look
at the bedroom window it necessary to turn
to the right and upward 1t is elementary law
of optics that the angle 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 was going on in the cottage or vice versa, and
the distance not great
Il slipped back into the Whytes house. I
$50 O'Clock and everything was still quite quiet
went out by the front entrance made my way round
to the cottage in North Lane, and raped loudly
the cottage door, intending to get peep inside before
the usual hour for callers. After protracted inter-
val l was answered by a surly looking man. half
dressed
rs this Mr.. Smth's2" I asked No better ques-
tion into my head for the moment and l had
fooshy gone without ready prepared.
No said the shortly "Tompkins. What
do you want at this time Of day2"
The table in the room had nothing it; hut
that moment. peeping round the man. my eye lighted
upon 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. suIkly, but
with ill-concealed SURPRISE, What do you want?'
II want to seeu Count iBeloni his representa-