The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-28

designated page, and there was the .cision
for which / had vainly searched half a
hundred volumes. 1t was then that res
membered Marin Lies Reelection that
should have every wish granted. Do
you wonder that did?"
-Humph' Decidedly queer, II must
! be confessed, but not necessarily con-
| vincing. Probably mere coincidence
But condolences that continue to occur
cease to be condolences and become the
manifestation of law. Once the thought
| was in my mind, of course, had TO verify
or disprove it by experiment. This at
| tempted in various ways to do.
Il will not weary YOU with details. IL is
enough to saw that every wish | expressed
| came Immediately, or soon after, to fulfil
| this curious feeling Of which have spoken,
| increasing in sharpness and strength with
each repetition. Shall | give you two
| Illustrations
.Iwished that might know where Marin
Lie was. just then the office boy brought
me the evening paper and the first thing
that met my eye was an account OF the
finding Of the body of an old negro woman
| in the woods near Pttsburg, Pa, appar-
emily starved TO death.
The description Tailed exactly with
that of Marin Lie, even to the crooked
Mind, ! had no reason to think that she
had left town; supposed she was still in
the house that had bought for her
But going down into that neighborhood
the next morning learned that she hadn Z
been seen there for several weeks, and
on forcing an entrance into the house. 1t
was evident that she had taken hast y
flight. leaving everything In confusion
behind her Another coincidence. you
would say?"
But ali that could say was Go on with
your story"
Il wished that mi ght be rich Before
night / received from New York parties
an offer OF $780, 900 for some mining stock
that | had inherited from my father and
had held simply because | couldn't get
rid OF it. Didn't suppose 1t was worth a
dollar, or ever would be.
-Of course, did not rise at the first
cast, and eventually cleared up cool
million from It, Next day a cablegram
! from London announced the death Of a
! great -uncle whom | hal never seen, and
| who might have been dead score OF years.
| for all knew to the contrary, leaving me
| than | dare tel you, or than you would
| easily believe
Jimmy! This il getting Interesting!
| Any more Marin Lies around with their
uncanny but lucrative predictions? Give
| them steer in nv direction if there are.
I'd like to get rise of that sort out OF
| them"
Would you take IL NJ the rrice'' he
ASKED, in the strangely dead dull voice,
| which had chara his recital swell,
| these inst ances simply illustrate the history
| Il wished for success in the law; and I
| won every case tried, even against the
most overwhelming odds Of law and evil
dence and opposing talent. / became
famous throughout that whole region.
at last, IN WEAKNESS and disgust at A
success which was not the fruit of my
own lawful striving, but simply the gift
OF q dead black woman whose very men,
DRY l loathed, | threw up nv practice
| turned everything over to my partners
and cleared out Since then have been a
tramp of a little higher order than the
| ordinary hobo, perhaps. but like him
| fancy"
And does this Aladdin-lke power OF
| ge'ene what Won wish for continiie?"
-Yes. suppose-I an afraid so II
| IL n long tins since have tried IT, though.
| Each new wish wrenchei me more than the
last had done. and was conscious each
TINE more ssensibly of giving up some
| thing Of life in il
$50 have cultivated the habit of no,
| wishing for anything at all, and have at.
! tanned in some measure to that state O,
| stolid animal cont ent, Of which my friend
| the OK, Is a conspicuous example That Is
| the reason Cor my abrupt answer the othoI
night.
in his voice now; he had risen from hi.
| hammock, and was Standing before mo
| his face working In the agony of "A dead!,
! earrestness--Jim, | have told YOU TO
| night what no one else on earth know
| You don't believe my story; how can youi
You think ] am crazy: perhaps am.
! But "a God lives, | have told YOU tn,
truth as soc 1t and know it These thing,