The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-19
A PSYCHIC CAT AND a.
SOME BURGLARS.
How an Animal Of Mystic Markings
Purred and Protested and Warned
and, AlaSl Was Forgotten.

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then one Of them proved that this must havt
shown through somehow.
All sorts and ahapes and breeds had at onC
time or another made friendly advances Il
him. They had put In an appearance IL
odd. ~uncanny ways. talked 20 him roman
tically or moonlight nights or, having drawn
his attention. stared hard at the North Stal
at 1908.
Had the man been OF superstitious strain
be might have found himself living in a
world OF occult obsession, broken dreams
and ghostly intimation. Being a bland and
shudderless sort OF person as regards psychic
matters, these feline demonstrations demon.
strated to him nothing except the suscepti-
bility Of one man and many cats.
More recently, however. the man has had
an experience which has set him wondering.
If you AJAX him now what he thinks Of the
psychic Significance Of cats he will enter
readily into q discussion Of the probabilities
citing Poe and Blavatsky. old witches tales
and the records Of the Society Of Submerged
Correspondence.
incidentally she 10 searching for a certain
brown and black striped medium which was
responsible for his late conversion, with the
idea Of consulting 1t on many subjects Of an
obscure and unsearohable ~nature-as 70
why. for instance. editors are never con.
stunned by the regrets they experience. or
whether peace Ia wal In Stead.
But thus occurred the conversion Of the
man:
The time was 2 A. N. The man was leav-
ing the subway at Seventy-ninth street
and starting toward his home near the
river three blocks below. he had been
reading Bunyan TO "a bright young thing
whose modernity had seemed TO need
suppression.
What with seeing Christian through and
waiting for the circulation to start In the
subway system he found himself coming
home with the morning winds. The streets
were still dark and deserted. In all that
world Of bated life only two things seemed
stirring-a man, the man Of this upanishad,
and a cat. He lie ready indeed In the light
of submerged correspondence 10 enter.
tain the probability that they were in reality
one.
They exchanged q greeting-slresdy
uncanny in the intimacy OF II. Their Dyes
met and there was recognition, faint at
first, some far stellar memory or Aaiatio
dream, but deepening ashley kept rhythmic
pace with eaoh other along the silent
pavements.
The man, it has been said. was bur-
dened by a scepticai habit. He had fought
against the idea that they were thus OBJ
securely united and had repeatedly tried
to shake her oG. Repeatedly she had re-
at last was like a eibylline warning, a de-
moniac prophecy. % ye Of little faith!
Would ye lose forever tia heaven OF
Me-ow-ma-mai'
The man made no further attempt 20
be rid Of her. Thereafter again and again
He studied her behavior, puzzled. sven
uncomfortably impressed. Yet the COM
monplace explanation occurred to him
that she wanted to be carried, that she
wanted a home.
Al length they reached his doorstep
and the cat made her last effort TO induce
him to do something else. He was clearly
not fertile In conjecture, and didn't dream
what il was. so he picked her up, deter
mined TO reward her intrepid faith in the
correspondence with substance from the
larder.
He pushed her inside the outer door
ahead Of him. There was a moment Of
surprise. for 10! the inner doc stood open
too and she entered that.
or a sudden the silence was broken by
u FllduK6 bOuI IL ~ bctIDcu 80 nuI1tT-
Gus the man wondered il she had incon-
blessed his home with a precocious
progeny.
He found her standing with bristling
fur in the dimly lighted hallway staring
at closed p0rtieres.
Still Glow OF cerebration the man thought
things a little queer, but manifested II not
than by saying conversationally:
on there, Tibbitina, you had better
wait out here Whereupon he locked
her between the two outer doors to await
his return.
She waited in vain, IA his everlasting
shame be il said. His oursory eye was at
that m caught by signs OF burglar
ious invasion all about.
Small objects lay scattered about the
parlor adjoining. The curtains were dis
arranged. Everywhere but in the hallway
ous breathing came to him from the next
He struck q match, entered, and for a
moment occupied a perilous zone Of light. |
What he saw might well have startled a
less, collected parsonage. How should a
wait.
The man was unarmed. He hadn't sven
that might have been used as a
missile, save a very small copy OF the 'Pil-
Srim's Progress So, feigning to nave
the Clutch Of E hand behind a cur
ain two yards away, he withdrew.
He mounted the stairs part way and from
here hurled forth a challenge that must
stirred even the blood Of brigands.
There was a rush OF fleeing feet to the rear
" the house, q window thrown violently
pen. O. precipitate plunge 10 the asphalt
,elow by two deluded marauders, then
ilence, except for the buzzing OF terrified
'oicee overhead.
To the terrified ones overhead the man
Numbered instructions 70 telephone the
'ohce. There was something Supplying
bout the result. They came.
A fact 90 sure to be doubted iced not be
welt. upon unduly. Their coming was a
Of speed. A commemorative arch.
4 some material capable Of ~withstanding
Titicism, should be raised In the Bingham
zed city Of the future,
Together they and tbs man went through
house. The man was glad, consider
the hour OF his return, hat proofs OF
il Veracity, OF a technical character.
Iere plentiful. For the burglars were
y that time uncertain srecks on the hori-
on OF conjecture. Two discarded over
oats. a vicious blackjack. a dark lantern.
file, a jimmy, an ammonia pistol-the
iscovery OF these filled the man with a
urious complaoency. |.
4 drove OF policemen followed the first
ylnG wedge OF three, A solemn c~onolave
1as thereupon held In the breeze OF the
I en- window at the rear. The breeze
In uDon fham the faint odnr NJ fu.