Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-12

or IIlC SluI lINCiNC0 W you, And
had kept it by her."
Heart breakingly clever" groso.
cd Wells, with a visible shudde,
But what are you leading up to?'
TIE asking YOU some other i'm.
pertinent questions, II you'll let me -
said Dagon, for your good and 70,
hers. For instance-Why did yn,
regret telling me that your cous,,
knew you were coming down to TN,
house last night"
Wells caught his lip between HI,
teeth. He did not speak for a few
seconds, and the Canadian saw hin,
sharply draw in his breath. ThsS
he said, NO doubt therell be nany
questions l shall gratefully answSS
Mr.. Dagon. But that--isnt one ~
them. 1t has nothing 10 do with the
affair"
Instantly Dagou was convinced
he could not have told why-ths,
this small, insignificant circum.
stance had everything TO do With
the affair.
Pandora had 4 long and Intricate
dream about thousand thinr,
Some OF these things were vaguTIS
horrible. At last she thought thg,
Fanny Gillctt was determined cha
should not tell a secret which il M,
most necessary TO tell in order 10
save somebody's life. To rrryer,
her crying out, Fanny sat heavily
down on her face. Struggling, gasp.
ing, the girl woke up.
The dream OF Fanny Cillctt slim.
red slowly away into dimness. In,
in its place q recollection that Eve
Carroll-E,Ve Haste-was deoA
tragically dead. E>~,hed in the rirls
brain like living monster. Eve
dead, and Rawdon-no, she, Pandora
accused OF murder.
"Oh. but that's only part Of Tho
dream. 1t isn't true" Fan heard
herself say out aloud.
She opened her ewes. and starr1
daZedly up at a ceiling. What crr.
ing? Where was she, ut homo /, E
London, Or
1t was a low ceiling. aud the room
wherever IL was seemed dayl s
with n curious green darkness Ike
what it must he under the Sc,
Pandora remembered an AQUARIUM &
whore she'd been taken by Ken. q,
treat. when she was Il child, Tie
same Ereenncss had been there
II had seemed very mysterious :,
hcr, and she had insisted upon ialk a
ing in whispers, because The
aquarium had felt like a place 0,
silence" II
This also felt like "A place Of sill.
cnce. Maybe she was dreaming, Toe
Most likely she wasn't really awake y
vet. Rut, oh. what a comfort ha,f
the awful dream about Eve and po, BE-
and herself wasn't true, II couldn't Y
couldn't he true. Yet was IT, De. A
tails troopcd back so wildly now, e
hidcous swarm of them, like poison j
bees trying to sting her 10 death And a
that cell in tho police station why. #
was real. at least, and she had gone
to sleep there, A
With this thought Fan sat I'd sud. IS
denly and stared round her.
The Echo A
What a strange ceiling this seem.
cd TO he, But II wasn't ceiling al, Il
all. II was water green wat,t W
There were fish in It, swimming
1et--sho was i'm a room. Oh. cer.
tatnly It was dream There !.
couldn't be n room under the sea- *
with n glass roof,
hut there IT was Just that, A =
glass roof. Pan slid of yer ~
queer, Oldfashioncd bod such az she
had never seen before. Tier
lettering n little. she stood on
stone floor with green reflections
floating over its Erarncss ante
reaching up on tiptOc, she toucbeh
the glass.
AS she did this she met tho star
ing, round eyes of large fish VIII
n silly face and rcccding chin.
Eazed Mt her for n second, thr
flashed away, n number 81 smaIcy
ones following II in alarm
How on earth have ! come here
OR isn't Il earth? Nm | dead, gV
IL this the next world" Pan askef
herself, as she dropped back upNE
tho he'd and lay very atm
Since the wnr she had read serer'(
much talked of books about exist
ence after death, and they all Ea
that at first IL seemed much tp
same aS life on earth. You couIdn
realize that you were what lm
would onco have called dead" u6'N
I'll some who had been much longf
on the other eide" came and tol
you that you had passed over
Il wish some one would come ahG
tell me" the girl said aloud. III
voice sounded so natural 30 pctdst
like that OF a spoiled and tired ChNax
that she thought she must lie alII
after all. But then the people
the books had thought that u
and they weren't.
1t was easIer to imagine how ~
might have come to such n strahFN
place after death than before h
cause she was beginning TO rtaH1
with cravings Of anguish that 70 !
dreams were not dreams IBE q
were all true. The things han nav I
tho part about Fam /
Gillett. She had been so desperate q
ly unhappy in prison that her ma n
might simply have stopped beatl 4
In sheer grief, and so she might p' c
be dead. v
She had heard OF people dyss n
like that. And this place win ii
sea for roof might be what ROM q
Catholics called Limbo" where }! 81
lived on and on for dim years Il
were neither happy nor unhapp, y
More fish were swimming a.
Many had poised themselves Al
at her, but IL she moved they G@ b
ed away with n flick Of the u" 10
Surprising. though, I'm 81
dead?" Pan went on quesug, IN
herself, when she had sharply pn.
cd her own arm and found ths' :
had all the sensations Of hesh
blood. I'D
Yes, supposing that! VINO ~
have brought her to TINS
room, and why should she nave
brought?