The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-09-30

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car.
you'll hide in the woods at first"
said Celestia. do you see that star!
Follow it, for. an hour-then you'll
wake up. But you will remember that
you have murdered an innocent per-
son. There will be blood on your
hand to remind you. If there was
another, or others who set you on to
do this thing, you can report to them
that the thing has been done"
Then Mrs. Gunsdorf hurried down
main line Of rails, glancing furtively
about her, and disappeared into the
night and the forest.
Celestia dined all alone that night,
and went to bed soon after, utterly ex-
| hausted, after locking the door of the
observation car and of her own state
room for the first time In her life.
At midnight a locomotive was at
tached to the snow-white train and it
was drawn slowly on its way deeper
into the heart of the north woods.
Soon after the train had started
Professor Stilliter entered Celestia's
car from his own, and after plying
well-oiled pass-key, stood looking
down at the darkness where she lay.
Presently he touched the button of
an electric torch and her face shone
brightly in the circle of radiance.
Then with his free hand Professor
Stilliter began to make caressing
passes over the smooth white fore
head, up and down, and across and
across, never touching it, but always
so close that his hand had sensation
of warmth.
After while Celestial passed from
natural to hypnotic sleep; her eyes
opened partially and had no express
sion in them.
Tomorrow, Celestia, DEAR" whis-
pered Professor Stilliter, when your
work is done, when you have spoken
to the people, you are to go back to
that heaven from which you came
You will say that you wish to go
for an automobile ride in the forest.
At five o'clock there will be a motor
ready and waiting. You will enter
this, refusing to be accompanied by
anyone, and you will do exactly what
the driver tells you. I had planned
our elopement for tonight, but there
was difficulty about the license"
He bent over her as if to kiss her,
but something at the very last mo-
ment seemed to restrain him.
Sleep, now, darling" he said; "the
other sleep, the sleep of nature that
makes us all over again between
days."
He tfptoed out, closed the door of
her stateroom behind him, locked it,
turned and received a smashing blow
in the face. He gave a grunt of fear
and pain and heard his eyeglasses
smash to pieces as they hit the floor
of the car.
For a long time he had been in the
habit of carrying two spare pairs in
leather cases, one in each of his waist
coat pockets; he now reached for one
of these, and it was knocked from his
hand, as he strove to ward another
blow from his face-after the blow had
landed.
Guarding his face and head with
one upturned arm and elbow, and
breathing fast with fear and excite
ment, Professor Stilliter sought and
found the door of the passage that led
to the other end Of the car, and sue
ceeded in placing it between himself
and his assailant. Then, cropping
with both hands, and in his blindness
humping from side to side of the
brightly-lighted passage, he turned and
fed.
Meanwhile Freddie the Ferret
picked up the broken pieces of Pro-
lessor Stilliter's glasses and threw
them into cuspidor. Perceiving the
leather case containing the second
pair lying where it had fallen, he
picked it up, and after a moments
hesitation, opened it, slipping the
glasses into his pocket Che thought
there might be a reward offered for
them), snapped the heavy case shut,
and laid it in prominent position on
the center table.
Then he began to wonder what
everything was all about anyway. He
himself had no business in the OBJ
servation car without invitation; but
he had an excellent excuse. He had
almost missed the train, had just man
aged to swing on the rear car, and
since he was one to whom no simple |
lock offered any difficulty, had let him
self in. He had been on the point of
passing through the train to his own
quarters forward when it had seemed
to him that it would be a glorious |
thing to stand guard all night be- |
fore Celestia's door like one of those !
knights of old of whom he had just
been reading in book which, accord |
ing to Freddie's judgment, was half |
glory and half animosity.
There was only one light burning
very low in the observation car. Fred |
die turned this out and started td |
stand guard in front of Celestia's door.
After while he moved further off and |