The daily Alaskan., 1911-05-25
A DUPLEX
 PICTURE By JOIN D. BILLINGS Copyright by American Press As.H-
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My family. tbe Nlo1eus during ue Revolutionary war were divided oa the issue. some of them being Tories, some . ardent raufogs The drst Noastt who came 10 this country was British to the core He arrived when he was thirty wears old and was sixty when fndcneadeace was deeIare1 One would think he had bad amD'etme to become Amercauizad but uothmg cam dcnarIate an EnElishman
 Not long ago. becoming interested .n the family rsnealogy. got into eorre- spoudauce with a cousin of mine who lives in che identical house built and orrunfeT by Cufuhegt 1IaTetr Che old .-u-uudee1r Tory ! was invited Go visit my cousin and inspect .ha home. stead and certain heIrInoms it eon- fafncd. , accepted tho invitation and found bim quite ready ta give me al tbe information he possessed about +re ram.lv history Ua said thTt our nroeeator had been so wrougH, upon rv King Georges failure to establish his authority ,ha. .t killed him.
 There" said my cousin when he showed me Go my room, pointing Co a pafnHae hanging on the wall ".s a portrait of the second 1IoGc.t. flames, our grandfather. Ttwas painted when ba was sfyty-cighl years old. or about frc age at which his father, Cu'hhert NoTotc dIcI
 The face was model of Eiud.nezs fra reverse of what his fathers must have been
 After dining and passing an agree qTre evening with wF cousin and his family went upstairs Go bed He had been telling me legends of Che family. and my mr1 was quite fu.' Of them. However, I had been .raFe..nE all day and was tired Getting oHt ot my clothes as soon as possible. ] turn ed or the light and Jumped into bed
 There are certain nights whom there Is a deaIness In the air that prevents na~srus from sIoeniuE ] had struck one of these nights An hOur after go- inr to bed awobc. and after being awake another hour concluded blight the cas-it had been put m wIthmuch difficulty some years hef0re-aud read novel ! had brought with me ! read for some time an1 becoming a h.t s,nauy or tired or my book. laid it down on tna bed beside me Then faunE myself looking straight at Che picture Of James NoGett The Ens jet shoue fun upon it
 Tmr-rssa1 as ! had been with the stories my cousin had told mo about the l.sa-rooahra makeup Of Cu.hbort and the genial disposition af James Narett Che moment my eyes Tel" on the portrait fU struck mo cha. rho na- tu-os of tnesa two men were struE- erfnE with each other Tn il Y ever there was a mn-'il- of daho.leal with noble expression it was there There seemed fo be two pictures in one-tvo men of The srma age. the one devil inc other saint Their features were SD much alike chat they could scarcely ha told apart
 ! moved aside when behold ] saw only tHe benevolent features of James NaTatt moved as far t0 fHe onTo- site side. and there on the same can- vas was the deviHsH face Of Cu.hhert ! resumed my original position and there saw again the strange ming'iag of the .wn.
 Now. ! ann not a sunors.HHnus man, but one must admit that after listen ing t1 rlo stories I had heard ol these two men, my own rroEoulrors. look ing upon such a sight was not C0n- ducive Go quiet nerves don't say that ! was impressed with Che nr0ha- btIty of there being anyf0'n- super natural about the portrait. butt didn't know. Auan is much more liable Go give way Co superstition at o'clock in the morning alone than in lhe light Of day with other persons about him. I wondered if the father and son had not 1uarrcIcd In life and Che son had uuwlrfngly been implicated in the fathers death And was not this quarrel supcnauralIy perpetuated in the ptctureE
 Nonsense, IvouId turn out Che light and go Go sleep
 did the first at once; the second ! could not do tII daylight came and the picture lost its duplex condition.
 At breakfast | did not propose to give away my midnight trepfdauon to my. cousin.
 sleep weUE' be asked
 l didn't H5e Go lie about it. so ! ad- mitted that was wakefUL
 "See anything unusual in the room 20
 'T know what you're driving at There's something strange about that portrait Of our grandfather"
 He smiled "T wondered if you would be looking at it when your gas light struck ir ! hope itdidn't disturb you"
 "Tu forgive you if youW explain the matter"
 "Done. Not long before James Moi fetts death-that was during the early part of this cenmry-a wandering painter came to the house and asked to be permitted to pain. his portrait