The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-03-16

and a. 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 it's destination
to stop about a square behind. He
followed these instructions and after
a long, noisy ride over the rough
oobbles, halted abruptly and opened
the cab door for me to alight.
paid him and dismissed the cab, and as
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 / hur-
ried up the steps to the door had
seen her enter By some lucky chance
/ 1t was Unmatched, and / walked into
the house. Great Heavens! The same
rich hangings, the divan with its Grim
son drapery, the paintings-all re.
vealed themselves in the glare of broad
| daylight. | 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. stood 7
in GREATNESS expectation a while long
err, then passed noiselessly over the I
velvet carpet into the adjoining room.
A heavy portiere at the rear led into
still another, and from thence the
voices proceeded. / recognized my
wife's in the most excited tone. |
glided closer to the curtain and dis
tinctly heard these words:
What you have already told me /
cannot help believe and while would
know more, am afraid Oh! |
can mott not now l."
Madam" some one interrupted
In the unmistakable voice of my even
ing's enchantress, Il am simply about
to present my impression of your
as he appears to me in that
astral personality which he is most
probably unconscious of possessing"
There was a deathlike stiffness for
few minutes suddenly broken by my
wife's voice in the most agitated tone
with a low sobbing:
ooh my Cod | cannot look! 1t is
NY husband and yet SO. strangely diff
'erent!" l could hold back no longer;
drew aside the curtain and through
OD6utu
vide enough for the purpose, passed t
n. | found myself in total darkness.
There were few seconds of suspense {
md then-at first indistinctly, then s
'learer and clearer out of the dark "
less-a face appeared; finally stand
ng in startling bas-relief against a
lery nimbus that surrounded it. In
he wide open staring eyes, the COM
,ressed lips and sunken cheeks, rec y
gnlzed my own phyiognomy! 7
"Sylvia!" N
1t was my wife's name I had ut U
cred before l was conscious what | U
ad done. There was a distinct scream o.
rom each woman; one of them fell! y
CROPPED my way in the darkness and le
ound it was my WIFE, picked her up II
1 my arms and got out Of the room 81
nd house / know not how. | have a OF
ague memory of hailing a cab and OF
lacing my wife in it and then driv- 10
lg home. All that night she was too 10
to move; but the next morning she as
i'd recovered enough for me to report ~
, police headquarters. AZ
The detective to whom / told my II
DRY smiled 81
"You have been in the hands of a w
,uple of notorious adventures" he So
iplained, 'for whose arrest the au- De
orities of some large cities in this W.
luntry and abroad are on the alert. VI
he woman Is clairvoyant, and pro- VI
sses to make a speciality of the sci a ..l
ice Of double personality; practicing vi
lis humbuggery by the desperate
cans you describe by which she has ~
lthered a large clientele in this city. - -
be experiment in your case is one ua
the most daring. The apparition of
our face is reproduction of photo
'aph taken in your s5enseless state
at evening in their house, for which -
lrpose you were deeoyed there and -
rugged. This by a clever stereopti- 49,
m effect was used to present the 1 s
artllng revelation of your second -
for your. wife's benefit, who a.
"opens to be patron of theirs, and an
r whom the trick was contriVed. "a
ley were arrested last hight" NJ