Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-02-29

which was a rude diagram with some
lines of description. Beyond a doubt
the furnishings and what may be call
ed the arrangement" of that room
were set down upon that paper.
You did not recognize 1t as youl
OWN | hsked. THAT seems strange
'Ah! So you know all about my
dream" said he. ut may indeed seem
strange that did not know this place,
yet | did not TO be sure, the outlines
are regular; there was really nothing
except the furniture by which it might
be recognized. 1t has been repapered,
the rugs and the hangings are differ
emit
Il should have thought that the view
from the windows l began. But
perhaps you did not look out"
There is one of the peculiar facts
about this DREAM said he. There
was no view from the windows; ii was
night The room seemed to be dark,
and yet l perceived all that was in it
and had an impression of the things
Just as if | had seen them"
His manner far more than his words
absurd, of course. for what is death or
the view Of death to shake a mans
heart?
Il don't understand why you should
conceal this from your sister," said l.
"Your revelation was dumb as to time.
That you expect to die in your own
chamber some day cannot alarm your
Friends How ron thnv hnna for any
thing better|'
This is surely the rational view, and
it was extraordinary that it had not
sprung up before Winthrop's mind i'm
mediately. 1t had not, and in response
to my suggestion he said repeatedly:
at will alarm her. The thought that
she herself planned these changes will
torture her mind"
You are mistaken" l insisted. IF
you do not tell her you can never go
from home without raising in her mind
the fear that you have gone straight TO
that closing scene of your life which
has been so strangely revealed to you"
The upshot of it was that he was
overpersuaded and agreed to take Mar
| ion into his confidence, the more espe-
cially because he had been confronted
by the necessity of leaving home for a
| few days upon a matter of business.
| The result of this disclosure, however,
was precisely what Winthrop had fore.
seen. 1t was to Marion as if she had
built gallows for her brother upon
which he must die the sooner because
! of the work of her hands.
She concealed this feeling from Stan.
ley, but to me she was explicit. 1t was
at this time that she and l began to re.
binding us more closely to each other
We had misnamed it friendship fol
more than year.
This monstrous notion, that the room
and her own affectionate efforts tC
make it more comfortable for hel
brother had somehow accelerated the
approach of his doom, would not leave
her mind. Her brother dwelt in the
apartment with a certain placid impa
thence, but Marion viewed his contin
ued use of it with an ever present ter
ror which seemed to me utterly unrea
sonable.
The situation was the worse because
no one dared try to mend 1t. To per
suade Stanley to give up the room for
ever or to- consent to change OF its
furnishings was the same as asking
him to set date for his own exit from
the world, since he believed that he
was to die in that scene as 1t Their
stood Absurd as this belief must seen
to a normal mind, it had surely taker
possession of the brother and sister
and the effect was disastrous upor
each, though in a different way. II
tanley it meant an increasing concen
tration of his thought upon a morbiC
theme, to Marion a constant. tortur
ing apprehension. dread of night ant
morning.
1t speedily became necessary to taxi
decisive action. took advice OF Stan
leys physician man more intoleran
Of all morbid and mystic nonsense thai
any one else whom | ever knew, and
, consulted certain members of the Win
throp household. The result was Dc
termination to overthrow this super
stition by direct proof of its falsity
: II SPeUleu likely tHdl III iilS dttShip
/ might lose Stanley's friendship. bu
had reached pitch of desperation
: where | was willing to risk anything
and, moreover. the doctor, who wa
bluff old fellow. agreed to assum
, all responsibility and to make all tn
, arrangements.
One evening at the Winthrops' Dime
hour DR.. Evans and | gained access t
Stanley's room from the veranda. w
were accompanied by some of the serv
ants. and we had the means of effect
ing a very considerable change in tn
I appearance of that apartment.
1t was an evening prematurely darl
The western sky almost to the zenit
was dead black. SO that the cart
seemed to be rolling into the mouth o
, a pit. | was the first to enter tn
I room. and | CROPPED my way at once
, a table upon which | knew that Their
was lamp A match cracked undo