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w a_ ti# It A sheet of paper written all over is conditiouofmybrain:Di·. Felixwantsto lying on her desk ; beside it is the little marry Anstice. " black stump of a pencil, tho very sight of "To marry An stice !" :BY SOPHIE SWETT. I mutilate my stork, and Mary M~urice which fills Mary Stcyner with hom·r. plays a discord. I am u tterly indiffer ent It has been worn down from a pencil of ··Anstice has one of her ' weird seiz- to the mysterious manifestations which goodly proportions to its present cowli~ "!lres ;' she is sitting, looking rapt , with are disturbing Anstice's soul and stupe- tion in a short time by the invisible de~ black stump of a pen cil· in her hand, fying with wonder the brains of the mon-or " force," according to Dr . Felix tJJ.at is writing, slowly and deliberately household. Neither P lanchettc nor a -to whose use i t is devoted. I think :for t he most part, b ut occasionally v ith a pencil per- se makes any r evelations to with amazement of the amount of ghostly jerk t hat shakes h er arm off the paper. me, and I am n ot anxious to have them. counsel which Anstice must have receiv.Even if on e could doubt Anstice's word, I am quite contented with life, without ed ! The writ ing is somewhat scrawly . I do lOne could see ~he isn't writ ing. I may be caring to feel out into the dark ness that weak -minded ' but I will. :tckno1 vledo-e to b ou~ d s 1t. · 0 . " · But facts. impr ess me. This not find.it very easy to deciph er ; Anstice, ieehnb creepy' ancl I WISh that ~he per- one impr esses me very disagreeably, for being experienced, reads it readily son who dragged forth that l.1 t~le d emon ·Anstice is my sister, and I do not wish but she insiats upon me doing it for my'?£.a Plan chette.from t11e obhv10n of the Dr. Felix for a brother-in-law. I do not self. "I want to be sure t hat my . eyes do d~rk c;,oset might see a ghgst every question that the information is a fact, ::mght ! · . · for we are all in the habit of regarding not i;~eceive me,-that I don't imagine any ~a? Ste~,ner .Proves h eF posse~si o~ of Mary Steyner as very acute. We three· of it," sh e says. I read first a name which is signed at :a . creepy, feelrng by a httle shwg and are cousms, and we ar e all Maries ; with ~hiver. . th§) names all resemblance ceases; but th e bottom of the sheet, and which. is very ~ look up from my :wor~, a stork m we understand each other as we none plainly w1·itten : it is the name of ourclead · --w]uc.h I have . been st1tchmg the long, of us n ot even I her sister understand moth.er. A detached sentence which is very :precious mornmg hours, and who.se legs Anstice ; and fo; quick pe~ception and have proved to be stumpy and will have shrewd observation we look to Mar y Stey- plain is this :-"Be comforted by the t~ be t aken out,- ycs, they ai'e un~e- ner. knowledge that your mother. is always ~ably stun~ry,-:-I look up, and say, mMoreover, this is 11ot an utterly 11ew near you." "Mary, you remember her writing :I have r efused to h eed my differ.entlyi It.is only fun. What harm idea t o me. tioes it do · :Sut it s?·~?ldom tells the truth own suspicions, but for weeks I have felt does t h at or does it not look like it ?" that I am t ired of it. , lik e A nst ice, " " on tl1e b rm · k Anstice asks thiR as one asks a question "It 'l , vVh t . ·t j" . l\'l . as I·f I we1~, upon which life depends. · I'.I 1 . a ~~ i c~1es ary of a great th scovery." 1 do remember our mother's handSte~er exciteclly. you don t seem to "Why should he want to marry An1 J~ahz~t v.:hat a .n~ys~,~ry it is · Do you be- sticer si1ysMary Maurice. t urning around writing : she wrote a delicate Italianhand, 'rhis writing is ievc I is-spi~·~ts · . 01:1 the piano-stool. Mary Maurice is in- sloping very much. round, upright, almost bacl"-handcd. I Mary Steyner drops h.cr voice, and pro- ch end 1o be argumentative. "In the first place, he is in love with am about t-0 answer Anstice's question -nounces t he fast word m an awe-str1ken with an. emphatic "No," when.I catch to~;N ,, I "S . . lcl her," says l\ifary Steyner. · say . · - onsense 1 pmt? W?u If I ever questioned the shrewdness of sight of a capital letter that is peculiar nevercome back ~~,wntesuch stup1cltlungs M<try Ste~ier's observation, it wo~lcl be and is as our mother made it ; farther on .an~ t~ll such hes · ,, now. It 1s as easy, to fancy t he differen- there is another that reminds me of her Not unless they were bad ones,. Sa)'.°8 tial calculus a prey to the tender passion writing. I hesitate. :Mary Steyn er r'.lflect1v~ly. "W~1le it · as Dr. Felix. " I don't think it clocs, as a general was Pfanchet te it didn t seem qm~e so And yet when one is young it is not so thing ; but there are some little peculiari.d,!"eadful, ~ecause ther e was the bit of very difficult to believe in love as a uni- ties-" metal ?n. it, and. one coul~ talk ~bout. versal motive. I reflect that in the un" You see them 7 I thought you ~gnetrnm.' and if o~e ch~n t understand comprohei;icled "soul of things " even would !" cried Anstice. "It is of no use 111 the l~ast what magneti~m was 0 : had mathematics may be rooted and grounded trying to deceive myself. It is mother." -to. do with it, still a word is so!llethmg .to in love. . It is not impossible that Dr. She drops her face in her hands, and is clmg to. But now. t.hat Anstice has ~1s- Felix is in love with Anstice ! shaken by weeping. ~overed that a pe_nCll m her fingers writes "Secondly, beinga thorough materialist, I am moved, b ut not as might be exJUSt a~ we~l with?ut the b~ard, the Dr. Felix has a very strong appreciation pected. I do not ta,ke kindly to the mystery begms to disturb ~e. Im thaD:k- of wealth as a positive good." supernatural. I am conscious of a strong ful enough that the pencil won't write · . " J..:tr my fingers. I tried it, for fear it Mary Steyner has expres.sed ad~1rat10n sense of revolt. I do not feel that I have would !" for Dr. Felix; therefore tins surpnscs me, heard my mother speak. My strongest feelings are a decided objection to the "Ask Dr. Felix <Lbout it," says Mary an~~ I say ~o. . . whole business, and anxiety about Anstice, :Maurice who is softly playin" a Chopin I aclpure !um.morn tho.never, he is .:nocturn~ at the piano. "' so beautifully consistent," she says. ".He who seerr\s deeply distressed . " lf you re:1Jly think so," I say " I . "Dr. Felix is in the library, too, pre- has some of ~he weaknesses of humamty, t ending to read a book, but really watch- ancl he falls m love ; hut not for .a mo- should think it would be a happiness." " If I think so ! Don't you think so 1" lng Anstice. He has been talking about ment would he mdulge . lums&lf m any it most learnedly. My srn:tll powers of such emobo1~ if there were. no material asks Anstice. " I don't see vEiry much to make me ~ompreh.insioi1 were completely benumb- goocl to be g:tmed b)I .1t . G1ven,Iovc a:id think so," said I. ed by the first sentence, and befol'e he wealth, .he devotes l~1rnsel~ to t heir attam" But you don't know all she had told had finished Lhe room whirled around me. ment with s)'stemat~c pers1stenoy. . I don't rue, M:uy. She reminded me of things He talked about ' unconscious " cerebra- see ho'; l\~fary l\faunce mtn call lum ' 1_lnthat happened when I was a little girl, tion,' and 'cerebral automatism, and 'un- canny. !f1 .s cl~aracte~ ref~·eshcs 1ll:e, hke conscious volition ;' and jelly-fish and the the 1.nu~t1phcat10n t:tbie, m the nuclst of th1.t t I had quite forgotten. And, Mary, you remember the ring tha.t I lost nearly molecules of monkey-brains wore in some Anstice s _uncanny p~rfo~·manc~s. yvhen way mixed up with it all ! Then he encl- that p enc~ goes scnbhlmg. of! by itself, a year ago,-the little sapphire set beed by saying that it 'was 11- . altogether aucl I b~gm .to feel cold clulls. down my tween two large pearls 1 She told me explainable!' Ansticelistened as sweetly back, my only comfort is to t!1mk of D.r. that it was in the finger of a glove that as if it were all perfectly lucid and satis- Fehx an¢l remember that twice two still I had discarded and tossed into the bottom drawer of the chiffonier, to be thrown k es f 0 1,lr I" factory. The thing itself wrote, once, m~, · , , . ,, And Anthat it was Satan : t hat theory has one ~nst1ce ~on t marry lum, says Mary away ; and I found it there !" stice produced from her j ewel-case the advantage ~ver Dr.. Felix's,- it is more M~~rice. . . 1,, . . · sapphire ring, and hclcl it up before my ·oomprehensible. Girls, you don't supJ;Icmy hi,'.n . I echo, with d1srlam. eyes. It is aud~e10us of any man to . wish to astonished ·.....pose it · that man clo you?" Mary Stey" But when you asked about the watch ner speaks in < \ - to110 of suppressed eager- m~rry Anstwe. Have not a. round dozen that 'Uncle Rufe Iost years ago, it wrote ness and excitement. aheacly been made to feel th~s 1 W as not thall lrn' Woiiidfind it within a-we.ak ; and "That man 'I" repeat Mary Maurice even Charley Bramhal~, -Prmce Chn:rle~ he hasn't," say I. r-" And--"tt said that .and I simultaneously, with a vague idea as we '.1lways called h!m, our old:·fr1cnd, Aunt Katherine had gone to Cleveland, that she must meant Satan,_ yet not re- our kmghi ai:d champ10n fro1-:i childl~ood, and told with whom and in what train, membering to 11ave ever heard him defi- whos? fah er has b.eei~- P:i tlnas to tncle and we discovered that she hadn't stirred I~ufe s Damon all .I ns 11.te,-:-was n ot Char- out of her house"" llitel:r-classed with humanity before. " Dr . F elix, of course," says MMy Stey- ley sent away with disdam l.ast n1ont h - " Yes, but it was not mother's spirit ~:. L.'tleJ\-.impatient of our dullness. wh~n hes~1cldenly de~~l~ped th1saud~ci~y? that wrote those things. Sonwtimcs I Mary M~uric~ and r look itt her in vron - f!u; .Anstrn.e looks hldi, ,in ~nnu11c1.at10n think, Mary, that these may, be evil aer. . The supernatural theory-w1iich. ex- 1113 .' she 1~ clothed with statelmess and spirits who tell falsehoods. But everyplains the manifesLations o.h vhich Anstice puri~y as "'.1th a gar:u~nt. . t hing that has purported to come from is the medium, we know ; and Dr. Felix's i Diverse m our opmwns and f.eel~.ngs as mother has been true." "natural " theory we know,- that is, so . to oth~r matter.s, we are a umt. m our " But this does not seem to make you far as his profound philosophizing has , worslup ~f ~nstice. .cr H er beauty is a per - happy," say I. beon able to enter our untort ured brains ; petu.al pnde and ~eh"'ht to us. (We three "lt is what she told me that makes but what is this ? Mar1es tire ~l~ plarn.) We are even proud me unhappy. .She says- oh, Mary ! she ·'You }mow there is such a thinet as of the sons1t_1ve. ·reser ve winch prevents says that I must marry Dr. Felix, tha,t mesmerism · and one mind sometimesJi:Ls her from takmg us all mto her c?nfidence, we wore cre'!tted for each ot her, ancl that ex.traordina;y power over another mind, " as we t<lke . h er and each other mto ours. I shall interfere with t he designs of says Mary Steyner. ' I arn esp.emally prnnd of the fact that she Providence if I refuse him, and bring We know : our knowledge is of that is my s1stei:, and. not .m t~e least hurt koubl e upon us all, especially uponextremely . limited character which in-- ~hat no?odj hea1s ?f it wit hout strong upon Charley." · spires us wit h the vast respect for th e sub- nnpressi~ns of su.rpr1se. . I am more than " on the brink of a disject. Audac10us as it would bo to my mmd covery." I have gone over, and the won"He's a most unc."rn1y little man," says for a king to w~sh to marry ou.r Anstice, der of it has swallowed me up. ::Mary-1\faurice. what can be said of such a desire on the (TO BE CON'l'INUED. ) · "He's always watching. Anstice, and I part of Dr. F elix 'I H o is poor, and of "know she is nevor out of his thoughts," no reput:1tion, except for learning, which The Countess and her Cats. pursu es Mary Steyner. "But I shouldn't I do not think we estimate very highly. At t he K ensington V cstry Hall, b efore have thought of his having anything.to do He ~as h1tely. co11~e from a German uniwith the writing if Anstice had not told vers~ty, and is 'Cncle ~ufe's . secretary. the Hon. E. C. Cnrzon, Sir H enry Gorme that sh e hacl noticed that it would He is not altogether plam of feature, but don, and others, Justices of the Peace, not write as fre ely when she was alone. he i s small of stature, and .we none of us the Countess de la Porre, residing at One day when I was looking over her approve 'O~ little me~. His. manner has 38 Pembroke square, was summoned for shoulder Dr. F elix's name was written not a particlo of pohsh : he 1s brusque to permitting a number of cats to r emain on over and over again ; and once it wrote th~ verge of rudeness. W e three Maries her· premises, so as t o cause a nuisance inh ers and his and drew a ring around thmk lus manners detestable ; Anstice jurious to h ealth. Mr. H:Lrding, Clerk them. Anstice laughed and blushed and say$ she ~·ather likes them,- that they ar:e of the Kensington Vestry, attended to thrust the pttper out of sight ; sh e said it a refre~hmg change from the manners of support the summons, ancl said the offence was one of many years' standing. The was vory absurd, sometimes. I asked the society young men whom we m eet. vylia,t else Anstice think~ about Dr. Countess- I am willing to do anything, h er if she thought it was spirits, and she said sh e couldn't form any opinion, it was Fe~1x I have never t hought it worth the Mr. ~arding-her ladyship has made that so mysterious ; sh e kept trying it, not wh~lc t o ask, and now that I .think promise on 11..Jll'e than one occasion, and I for th e sake of what it told her wl1ich of i t , I r emember that she has n ever r egret that I cannot place any reliance in it . was often nonsense, but for the 'si1ke of said. Mr. Bircl (a magistrate)-Howmanyc:1ts :findincr out. She felt as if she mi"'ht Le I have remodeled the legs of my stork, on th~ l 1 ri11k of a great discove~y. I and again the one i1:nportant one is hope- are there~ The Countess- I h ave five thought then t h at sh e was inspired with lessly bacl. Mary Steyncr jumps up and cats, <tnd also feed some stray on es. Mr. Dr. Felix'5 zeal for scientific investi"a- says that a little fresh air is n ecessary to Harding explained t hat t he Countess was tion ; but yest erday she told m o that :i.1e p1:eserve h er san ity aJter such exercises of summu11ed not long siuce a t the Hamn'lcrthought it must be spirits,- something mmd .as she has ha~ this morning;. Mary smith Police Court, when the prohibitory was written which only she and h er Maunce goes out with her. I go m search order was grante~l from the keeping of cats at 39 Pembroke square, where she mother k new, and sh e was sure that sh e of AnsLice. · had f?rgotteu it; it .was not in her .mind. . She is not in the library. Dr. Felix then resided. She has since removed to I ~em1nfted h er tha~ it h:i,d n~vor told any- sits ther e .alone at a table, with a pencjl 38. The Countess- This prosecuting is a thmg correct ly which she did not know ; between h.is fingers. H is hand is perfect- cruel thing ; it is t hrough a neighbor. I but she said, mysteri0usly, that I did not ly motionless, and he has on what Mary h ave two clogs. Mr. Abbott, the Sanitary Insp ector, said when the Countess was ~now <~11 that it had told her. Something Steyner calls his " investiga Ling expres1s makmg l_iet pale :md n ervo.us. U1 .1cle sion." He is invoking the spirits, or summoned on t he last occasion she had Rufo was m the library .tln~ morrn~g, " the uncompreh endecl brain-force," or eighteen cats and nine dogs. Mr. Hardand he told h er t hat sh~ d1dn t look like whatever t he power may be which Jnoves ing- They were shut up in a room, and h crself,- said he thought sh e would do the pencil in Anstice's fingers. He looks one could naturally imagine the filthy better to employ her faculties with the more like a Bcdlamite than one would smell. Mr. Bird- Do you confine the material affairs of life rather than in try- suppose it p.P8~i:ble for Dr. Felix to look. animals in a l'Oom 1 The Coimtcss- Cerfog to ' raise spirits from th e vast deep. ' The pencil does not move. H e is too tainly not. There being no witn esses to And Dr. Felix said she was of ' too sen- absorbed to observe me and I ao out prove the offence, the b~nch dismissed sit,ive and impressionable an organization closing the door softly. ' "' ' t he summons. - -- ----+··- - - to trifle with an uncomprehended phase of It strikes me as probable t hat Mary " Why, " said a defeated ' candidate, brain-power:' h e said it )Onderously, b ut Steyner will soon find her only consolathat was the gist of it." ·t ion in the multiplication-table, for Dr. ' 'am I like t h e earth ?" " Because,' "I don't sec how. h e h ave any- F elix is b ecoming, like Anstice, an apos- said a listener, "you are covered with dirt." "Wl'ong ; guess a.gain." "Bet hing to do with it," said Mary Maurice. tle of the uncanny. H H e certainly doesn 't encourage her in I n oiselessly open the door of An- cause you are always 'round." "Wron g; -experi~enting with_ i~." stice's.r oom, and :(incl h er prone upon her try another." "Because you are wick"~Is ph1losopluzmg does encourage be.d , h er face buried in the pillow. Sh e ed. ""Try again. " "Give it up. Why Well, it's because I'm flath er : it makes her want t o find out. But raises her h ead and shows me :t t ear - are you 1" " " p erhaps h e ha~ n othing to do. ~ith it . I st ain ed face. She is trembling from h ead tened ~t t he polls." The dudine, after critically examining only offer th e idea as an addition to the to foot. Never have ·I seen au:r ser ene the magnifi cent proportions of the dude, theories already proposed : it can't well Anstice in such a plight. timidly romarkec.l.: " George, darling, if I throw less light upon the subject than Sh e seizes me, clings to me. they do. B ut there is one fact in con" :Mary, I must t ell you ! I oall'L bear am going to wea.r t he breeches after we nection :with t his a~air,-and a fact is a such a burden all alone," she says. " Look get married, yo'u will have to get t hem made larger than that." _great thmg t o me m the present dazed at this." BLACK SPIRITS AND WHITE. PERSONAL P.l!KAGR&PHS. What our Eminent t'eoplo ru:e Sayin g a a d D o i:ng. I T IS A FACT! -TECE- · · No photographs of Rev. Phillips Brooks can be bought. Mr. Irving's scenery is insured for a hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Mr. Barrett is being modelled for statute in his part in Francesca da Rirnini by Mr. Sheehan . Robert S. Rantoul, Jun., of Salem, is enterfoining Hon. 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