The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-12


for sake people think that might
him again"
he friend raised me-
No he said Il don't believe it have known him from
boy knew his father before They
Linton could have done such thing But is all
dreadful
Mainwaring could
not bring myself spend the evening in his We could
but think of subject felt right
met my GRIEF upon him. should be better alone watched the
children sink to sleep and for hours their little white
beds listening to their regular breathing Then kissed them
nrHd faces sboS avaie them and near dniebt retired 70
would wrongly the door
myself dressing
damp cold had
kinded At last sleep conquered
myself the bed and slept How long it
slept seeing
fearful sights Cruel voices whispered words that stabbed
in dreams longed for wakefulness Then awoke
fercer. while
looked strange morning dawned in cherries gray and crept
in o the half Fr Rnd cu realize
was or quite recall what had happened
Walter who should be by side
awake Then the vacant pillow by mine all came
with rehux of that
despair and sobbng bitterly called the
one who could not hear me My right hand lay as it had fallen
outside the cover and in minute almost shreked with nor
for felt another hand seek it, touch it. and
experienced the sensation of fingers closing round my own
Hastily away that clasp what held with
distinctly felt without offering resist
a
by nature rembled like had it been dark
when that unknown hand sought my
light. in few
that ovepowerg fright and looked around
possibly hide The firmly locked
could entered either by
window Then down and reasoned with myself on
my folly
path which they always followed My dropped to
fingers relaxed themselves And then
mine hold it. Again felt
of that closed round mine
felt that there was no hand in mine that my clasp
return sensation of palm against pamfngers
ndisputabe The sensation Of pressure
family it is true but was there 1t was no fancy
this time Whether mortal not hand or the SEM
holding Again the horror
clasp cued found the result of efforts failed
this second that the fingers which fastened
on my own eouO not De bd b U SS m moved with # If
If grasped right hand in my left there was
would would, clasp phantom of clasp,
hand Yet struggled with fear until the awful
thought through brain that this the aura the
paralysis epilepsy Then could bear no
longer the result of bodily mental
alment could bear it no longer felt my mind was gong
and through
the house Remember, was but a woman and alone. -
hurryng feet drew that hand hand
lying quilted it Then as the strange sensation
ceased a mournful like sigh it only
phantom fingers draw themselves
away soohngy it seemed reluctantly
that fancy
wild joyful thought that flashed through
brain be than the thought of madwoman? What could 1t
mean?
told who shadows. by
thoughts No wondered at it What
'i s Wr Nanwarine insisted upon giving me an OBI
ate reluctantly, my with until
dull told of the potency and efficacy of the drug
which 1 had been made to take
This artificial sleep without
Then awoke refreshed and in full possession of
arose and prayed as had never prayed before that
might again feel that touch which had nearly
And he Mainwarng, who would leave
Of
insisted taking turn in the
garden. obeyed him. plant every blossom
around seemed breathing sadness 1
minutes but sat favorte seat and
behind the hills then therein
and teart leaped
with joy. avoid longer let my
the spirit of the
loved
Even if had not known in resting
would have told I wondered
why first. If could
1
I be l my
toward him and said softy-so softly:
Dearest love- will often and often, will not
will always with then shall be unhappy"
He 1
pondered its
family family that touch endeayorng
understand something which earthly faculties
direct lead somewhere
it left again, left
last
Walter Linton and his wife walked they
before, In hand
rustic lodge with
into highroad nothing
the loved mine
Moreover, daylight dreaming