The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-03-23

and at the same time determined to
investigate the diabolical agencies at
work to destroy the happiness Of my
home and family.
l told the driver to follow my wife's
cab, and at the end of its destination
to stop about a square behind. He
followed these instructions and after
a long, noisy ride over the rough
cobbles, halted abruptly and opened
the cab door for me to alight. |
paid him and dismissed the cab, and as
l saw my wife's dress disappear in
a doorway down about the middle of
the next square, made for that di-
rection.
My heart gave a bound as I hur-
ried up the steps to the door l had
seen her enter. By some lucky chance
it was Unattached, and 1 walked into
the house. Great Heavens! The same
rich hangings, the divan with it's Grim
son drapery, the paintings-all re-
vealed themselves in the glare of broad
daylight. I heard the murmur of
voices somewhere in the house and
paused to catch the direction of the
sound. / could not seem to make out.
Every minute was as an hour. l stood
in GREATNESS expectation a while long
er, then passed noiselessly over the
velvet carpet into the adjoining room.
A heavy portiere at the real led into
still another, and from thence the
voices proceeded. I recognized my
wife's in the most excited tone. Il
glided closer to the curtain and dis
tinctly heard these words:
"What you have already told me I
cannot help believe and while I would
know more,-I am afraid Oh! II
can not! not now II
MADAM" some one interrupted
in the unmistakable voice of my even
~enchantress, 81 am simply about
to present my impression Of your
husband as he appears to me in that
astral personality which he is most
probably unconscious of possessing"
There was a deathlike stiffness for a
few minutes; suddenly broken by my
voice in the most agitated tone
accompanied with a low sobbing:
ooh my God! | cannot look! 1t is
my husband and yet so strangely diff
I could hold back no longer;
drew aside the curtain and through
he folding doors which were opened
wide enough for the purpose, passed
n. I found myself in total darkness.
There were a few seconds of suspense
Ind then-at first indistinctly, then
clearer and clearer out of the dark
less-a face appeared; finally stand
ng in startling bas-relief against a
iery nimbus that surrounded it. In
he wide open staring eyes, the com
pressed lips and sunken cheeks, ' rec !
my own phyiognomy! !
"Sylvia!"
1t was my wife's name I had ut
cred before I was conscious what
lad done. There was a distinct scream {
rom each woman; one of them fell! |
CROPPED my way in the darkness and i
ound it was my wife. I picked her up /
n my arms and got out of the room 5
nd house I know not how. I have a =
'ague memory of hailing a cab and q
my wife in it and then driv- II
ng home. All that night she was too I
i to move; but the next morning she q
recovered enough for me to report !
t police headquarters. 4
The detective to whom I told my I
tory smiled. .
'You have been in the hands of a Y
ouple of notorious adventurers," he p
Explained, "for whose arrest the au- U
horities of some large cities in this "
ountry and abroad are on the alert. u
he woman is a ~clairvoyant, and pro- u
esses to make a speciality of the sci I,
nee of double personality; practicing :!
MS humbuggery by the desperate q.
leans you describe by which she has -
altered a large clientele in this city. ),
he experiment in your case is one u
the most daring. The apparition Of
our face is a reproduction of a photo-
taken in your Eenseless state
hat evening in their house, for which =,
urpose you were decoyed there and ~
rugged. This by a clever %stereopti- +
on effect was used to present the u
tartling revelation of your second -
ersonality for your. wife's benefit, who Il
appens to be a patron of theirs, and y
whom the trick was contrived. +
hey were arrested last hight" n
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