Year: 1878




ward home and died of paralysis be


fore his son could reach him. .Abso


lutely everything was swept away.


and Edward accepted subordinate


position in one of the public libra


ries of this city. He had his mother


to care for and the two lived peace


fully together. Edward, taking ad


vantage of his place to continue his
researches into the phenomena ei
dreams, revising his old manuscripts


and preparing new, with the design
of publishing them in book form.


He had been at work for about tvs
years, when once more he fell in


love-this time with Bertha Emer-
son, lady who, in every particular,


was the exact opposite of Clara Won
Pracken, a loving, quiet, innocent
nature, blue.eyed, fair-haired, small
and delicate as lily. He would
have married her had it not been for
his poverty, and as for the lady, she
also was poor. There was no hope
that they would ever be able to mar
ry, except that forlOrn one which
was based On the prospect of a
great sale for Aliens book. Final
ly it was completed, but on the
eve of its publication appeared DR..
Hammond's book on "Sleep and its
Derangements," in which nearly all
of Aliens work was exploited and
all his ground covered.


1t was now that the singular events
at which l have limited began to APP
pear. Mr.. Allen entered upon dou-
BILE existence, and sleep was to him
but another world as regularly or.
dered as the one in which we COM
mon mortals live. To dream the
same dream three times in success.
sion is very rare occurrence, but.
so far as | know or have read,
dream which developes itself night
after night as life unfolds day by
day, has never yet been known save
in the case of the man of whom | am
writing-if indeed his experiences in
that other world may rightly be de-
scribeG as dreams. As gather from
manuscript-or perhaps it would be
better to transcribe directly from it
as it lies before me. It was begun
some time after the first access of
poor Aliens troubles.


81 found myself leading a lady by
the hand through garden, the air
of which was oppressive with odors
exhaled from flowers and trees such
as I had never seen before. 1t was
early evening, and, as we wandered
on, the stars came cut in sky whose
consultations were not those which
shine for either of earth's hemis-
pheres. Often the lady spoke. turn
ing to me her beautiful face and
looking earnestly at me with her
dark eyes. When we stood leaning
upon the garden wall the blackness
Of darkness was below us; eye could
not pierce to the bottom of the dark
abyss, but the sound of the sea beat.
ing against the basalt foundations of
the wall could be heard. We seem
ed long to have known each other,
and we loved, but for me there was
dimly outlined, as in reverie, a fair
face which somewhere | had known,
and which seemed mutelY and lightly
to touch mine, and in the breeze was
family borne sigh. My compan-
ion had been speechless for a long
time, when suddenly she turned to
me and we kissed each other. Then
she said. For my sake!' Yes i
answered, for your sake


" At once 1 awoke. was in my
room, and my first thought was OF
Bertha, whom 1 loved. In the even
ing I visited her, but said nothing
about my dream. No sooner had I
closed my eyes in sleep that night
than stood with my dark love still
at the garden wall.


"sMen call it sacrilege.' she said,
'but souls like mine hold nothing
sacred but love and ambition. My
passions are fierce; my blood courses
through my veins like fire. Who is
she pa wan and bioodless creature,
whom men have placed as queen
over realm whose people should
be mine. How can divinity hedge
round. SO poor thing. while I,
4OSNA AtO1A W III VIZ 6CAOtE WAOA1
men and women should bow down
aud worship. am supplanted and un-
worthy to be even my lady's hand
maid ? Out upon herF she cried,
stamping on the ground and raising
her arms wildly towards the sky.
I tell you. my lover, she must die
because / will it, I hate her and
would reign upon my throne, for it
is mine and she has robbed me Of it L
The yehemence of her passion bore
me along with it like rushing tar
rent. aud when, exhausted with its
violence, she sank upon my breast
and burst into tears, begging that if
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