Connecticut western news., 1909-11-25
4 GLINMER FROM
 BEHIND TIE CURTAIN
By SUSAN p. LCWRIE.
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SiG"rrd SuprrStiliuuS which may be tuIrruppiu%S of natures laws. We scientists ,an trace animal life back t0 the very cicHlrirua of the egg. whirh iS an embryo living being. but we cannot tell why two prop;t will ire. Gu"nl!y i!iuN of lhe same thing at th" SlHF m"nrut. In other words. We hulr urNrr made Il beginning iH Ihr >riVnr" Cf mental tclepathy. ei- th"r l'"iN"rn wing people ur between th' ,A ing Hud the drud This ls pre- lir'inary to 8u experience given me hy "h" "f my most gifted pupils short ly after she had taken u husband.
 ''I'rofeSSur." she said. you rcmcm- Der that once rou:idcd to you thai there WaS u mystery In our family. that when l waS child my nurse was dismissed fu" the merr mention of II 10 me. though Ahe had given me no idpa of what it waS Well. the even ing hr.urp my marriage while cNplor- iE% a garret for some needed article 1 came upon a trunk. which opened and found to contain Sunlry kuivk- &uark$. all evidently very uld. One Was a daguprrrut! pr ot girl. anuth. CT a pa$trboard lux tied with faded ribbon. opened the box and found Small piece of wedding cake. dried tu q crisp. Girls. you know. sleep with wedding cake under their pillows tu Influence their dreams. I took the piece 1 found away with me and that night slept with 1t under my pillow.
 "I dreamed this dream:
 "I Was walking in one of those uld f;sShinErd gardens still common in old New England. and more so in the southern states. inclused by a high wall. Through vista of trees, and flowers could Srr the rear of n house. Through a duur opening on to Il porch came a young man and Il girl The mam wore fruck coat with brass but tu1s. a prufuSiun of neckwpar and trousers strapped beneath his shoes. He carried u caue. The girls dress was cuverrd with tiuwers. and he" hair. parted in the center of her head. was plaStprpd down over her temples. The two came toward me over n walk bnrdrred with hoy wncd. and as they drew near l recognized the git whose daguerrrutypr l had $reu ln lha truuL in the garrrt. IGe mans tlre !oukcG familiar. but 1 COunl uut piLvr il.
 They were talking tNritr,lly. bui what they Sail dld nut hear. indeed. 1 didn't hear their yoi.'rS: i only kurw they were diSruSSiHE Snh!v sub, h,ert ot vital importance tu them Suddenly Il wooden door iu the gardru wall upcu- ed. and another man entered. lie. t,'u. was young and dressed in the same fashion as the man walking with lhe girl On his entrance she gave d cry. and The two young men stuud and plur cd al each other. There was some run- fusion in my dream from this point for awhile. and the next feature 1 re- member distinctly wus seeing the man wnu had come out of the house with the girl pull his walking stick in TWO pieces. separating it just below tue haLdlp. The upper part was a long, thin piece of steel. With 1t he rushed upon the man who had entered last and stabbed him. The steel with drawn. saw the red blood gush forth. The girl fell over on bed of flowers in faint.
 "I awoke in one of those horrible conditions produced by bad dreams. Had miue been the consequence of some internal aimeut like indigestion might have Quieted down and gone to sleep. But my seeing in the girl the person whose likeness l had found tn the trunk convinced me that 1 had been carried back to some scene en- acted in the past. Consequently pug Zled over it till morning and arose on my wedding day, having slept only few hours. At breakfast father, notic- ing my appearance. looked at me anx' iOusly and asked me if l were ill. told him my dream.
 After my return from my honey moon father told me the family so cret. My grandmother, his mother. was a New Orleans creole. A coqurIte. she had encouraged two suitors. The scene had dreamed had been enacted in the garden behind her fathers house in that city. My grandmother had chosen the young man who had entered the garden with her. Ills portrait. taken when he was about forty years old. hangs in our drawing room. No likeness of my grancmUth- or remains, except the dagucrreotype. which was taken q year before the crime. Indeed. she would never have her portrait painted. living a retired life. burdened by tue thought that she had been the cause of the tragedy. The weapon used was sword cane. much in vogue in that day"
 When the narrator ceased the in- quring look she gave me told that she wished to know if l had any the ory<of the. natural causes that had transported her back 10 witness what had occurred more than sixty years before. l said this to her:
 As prior to the fifteenth century there was vast continent-America- unknown. except through report. to the people of the world. there Is and has always been realm of spirit. soul-call it what you will-whose manifestations are so vague, in which +r,1th and prror arp so inpytricably