The San Francisco call., 1906-08-05

, shrill scream had not fear strangled II
at birth. The spell was broken and L
sprang forward.
What is it?" I asked sharply. What
Is the matter?"
The girl, who had looked so fresh
and dainty few minutes before, now
lay huddled up in her companions
arms, her ghastly face pressed to his
breast, her little hands clutching at him
convulsively; her whole appearance in
dicating the extremity of terror.
Take me away" she moaned; for
Gods sake, take me away"
1 looked up at the center figure in
the case with the hands crossed on the
breast and the dark eyes gazing
straight ahead. but II was as it had
ever been to me; dead, yet suggesting
life; changeless, but whispering of
change. To her more than to any other
of her race that 1 have seen l should
apply the motto found on mummy
cover. Il was ! am not, l shall be-"
What was it?" 1 asked again, as the
man put her tenderly down. supporting
her head on his shoulder. What fright
ened the young lady?"
II don't know can't imagine" he
said. in evident anxiety. Il had turned
to look at something else, when all at
once my wife called out as you heard
and caught hold of me. 1 had not left
her a minute"
What was she looking at when she
screamed"
AT some figures painted on the cof-
fin lids. We were both struck by the
lifelike expression on one woman's
face. Perhaps you may remember 1t.
1t is not a pleasant face; indeed, there
is something distinctly sinister and
threatening about it."
II remember" L answered slowly.
How should 1 not, seeing how many
hours I had spent gazing at that ter
rible face, with its suggestion Of hid
den power? Once / had gazed too long
into the dark eyes and they had held
me while my heart throbbed thick and
fast and the cold sweat rose on my
forehead, as 1 expected every moment
that some force would leap out and
strike me.
TT was a mistake, perhaps" he con-
tinued, Ito have brought my wife here.
she is highly sensitive and more sus-
ceptible to-to unpleasant Impressions
or anything OF that kind than most
people. But she has been so well and
happy the last few months since she
has lived an ordinary healthy life that
I forgot how her nerves have been tried
and that she must still be feeling the
effects OF her previous unwholesome
existence"
He was so upset and anxious that it
seemed a relief for him to speak, and
my age and evident sympathy probably
made him more communicative than he
would otherwise have been.
Her nerves have been unduly
strained and excited at some time, /
infer That would almost explain what
has happened" l said, with feeling of
relief. Like so many sensitive people,
she must have felt the electricity in
the air-I was oppressed by it myself
and. shut up in those warm rooms, sur
rounded by the signs and tokens of
death. she got nervous 1t is quite
reasonable"
YES" he said, as though not alto
gether convinced. And yet that seemed
hardly sufficient to account for the
look in her face and the intense fear
in her voice. You heard it, didn't you?
She has not been altogether unaccus-
toned to strange things. She-her
father was the celebrated DR.. Daub-
ney. and she used to assist him."
OH 1 calculated. in startled aston
ishment I had heard Of the doctor,
as who interested in occult science has
not? And / knew that he had pene-
trsted farther into the world beyond
our senses than most explorers in that
unknown land. 1t might we'll be that
his daughter could see and feel more
than was possible to ordinary humani-
ty. whose finer perceptions were less
highly developed.
mt the Girl hsd recovered sussotAat-