The Washington times., 1915-06-07
WAKED HIM WITH A KISS.

swung his arms about wildly like a cab
to get his circulation going, and then
with an athletes scorn Of pain and cold.
he ran into the water until 1t was
waist deep and then dove.
Celestia. busy with the cooking, was
not troubling her mind about celestial
affairs. She felt very earthly. She felt
as any young girl would have felt in
such novel and romantic cimcum-
stances. And much that had been clear
to her the previous day and of surpass-
futile, so that a few more days of life
In the open, far from the occult infiu-
ences and directions OF Professor Still
liter might have made a normal person
of her.
The reason that Tommy could not un-
derstand Celestia was simple. She could
not explain herself. She believed be-
yond question that she had always lived
in Heaven until the day before, when
after a glorious rush through space she
found herself on earth. seated by a
pool of water and looking into the eyes
Of Tommy Barclay.
Do you ever dream? Then you know
how real the most preposterous dream
can seem, at the time, and for awhile
| after YOU wake. Suppose you dreamed
that YOU were perfectly happy? You
could not afterward describe just what
that had felt like, any more than you
dreams nor the spelling scenery
which SO often accompanies a night
mare.
Almost the whole Of Celestia's life
or sleeping. she had dNeamed. dream
ed, dreamed. But her reams had not
been of the hap-hs ID kind that
come to the rest IS. She had
dream. She had dreamed what a mas
lat In
dreamed that II would be best for her
to dream. Himself unseen and often
far away. she had dreamed as he will
ed. There had been people to wait on
! needs; but for years she had looked
these people daily in the face and
never saw them. Instead she saw
and dwelt among winged angels. and
| sublimities among serenities passing
| all descriptions and in a state Of alb
solute uninterrupted bliss
Educated to her finger tips in the
languages Of this world. she had never
had master. In dreams she had been
taught. without knowing that she was
| puious dreamer had thought best for
her to know.
And as she leaned to the work of
cooking. her lovely face, red with the
heat Of the fre. that very dreamer
was watching her. from a neighboTr-
miration as he felt for himself. And
why not? He felt that what she was.
what she was going to be, was all the
work OF his own mind. He even felt
her beauty. At least he haj selected
her for his purpose from thousands
and thousands OF children; partly be-
cause she was physically perfect;
partly because her parents had been
physically perfect. And partly because
her baby skull contained a brain upon
which he could play with all his pow
er and Imagination.
Is stone pure7 1t is neither pure
nor impure. But a normal stone Ia
cold. So was Professor Stilliter. Celes.
tias beauty affected not his heart and
circulation. but his mind. Power and
success alone touched his heart at this
time. But he wondered why, consider,
ing that she had passed almost hei
whole life under his influence. she
had at what she had supposed wa,
her first sight of him. showed that
she disliked and distrusted him. Ir
fifteen years he had taught her much
and prepared her for much. but then
her dream life ended for the time be
ing, he had shown himself to her. anC
she had fled from him with stranger
as II for her life,
well, my beauty" he thought. "I
you must hate me, you must. But yol
you will speak to men as l dictate
end looking at men through your glor
Ious eyes, | shall compel them to be
lieve what you say and to DO as yor
command. Whole multtudes will be
lieve and obey"
He arose from his hiding place an
stepped cautiously toward her. II wa
| his intention to hYpnotiZe her and &c
: her away from that place quickly an
, quietly, so that To nmy should not haV
, an opportunity to make further trouble
1t needed no more now than a g.imps
OF that sphere of rock crystal whic
Prof. Stillter carried always with hir
to reduce Celesta to that condition O
mind in which she spoke and acte
upon impulse, that did not rise With
herself But though he flashed tn
ystal suddenly In her face and ex
claimed in a tone of sharp command
, Sleep, Celestia," either she was to
startled and bewiidered to see the crys
tai At all or for once something wa
! lacking in the DrOoees for she snre y,