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Her last words brought me to my feetâ€"madâ€"raving for the time be- in; “Yes. there is a mistake somewhere.’ I repeated. “a hideous mistake. Come and look at it. " I have an indistinct idea that I drag- ged Kitty by the wrist along the road up to where it stood and implored her for pity’s sake to speak to itâ€"to tell it that we were betrothed: that neither death nor hell could break the tie be- tween us. and Kitty only knows how much more to the same eflfect N ow and again I appealed passionately to the terror in the rickshaw to bear witness to all I had said and to release me from a torture that was killing me. As I talked I suppose I must have told Kitty of my old relations with Mrs. Wessingâ€" ton. for I saw her listen intently with white face and blazing eyes. “Has it gone. child?" 1 gasped. Kitty only wept morg- bitterly The syces. impassive as orientals al- ways are. had come up with the recap- tured horses. and as Kitty sprang into her saddle I caught hold of the bridle. entreating her to hear me out and for- give My answer was the cut of her riding Whip across my face from mouth to eye and a word or two of farewell that even now I cannot write down. So I judged, and judged rightly. that Kit- ty knew all. and I staggered back to the side of the rickshaw My face was cut and bleeding. and the blow of the rid- ing whip had raised a livid blue wheal on it I had no self respect Just then Heatherlegh. who must have been fol- lowing Kitty and me at adistance can tered Up. Heatherlegh’s face. even in my ab ject misery. moved mg to_laug_hter. “Thank you. Mr. Phnéay. " she said. "T_h_at’s quite enough. Syce ghora lao. ' “Doctor." I said, pointing to my face. “here’s Miss Mannering’s signa- ture to my order of dismissal and-â€" [’11 thank you for that lac as soon as convenient " “I'll stake my professional reputa- tion"-â€" he began. AsI spoke the rickshaw was gone. Then I lost all knowledge of What was passing. The crest of J akko seemed to heave and roll like the crest of a cloud and fall in upon me: Seven days later (on the 7th of May. that is to say) I was aware that I was lying in Heatherlegh’s room as weak as a little child. Heatherlegh was watch. ing me intently from behind the papers on his writing table His first words were not encouraging. but I was too far spent to be much moved by them. __._L L--'I_ “Don’ t be a fool,’ I whispered. "I' ve lost my life’ a happiness. and you’d better take me home.’ â€"‘.-._- _- “Here’s Miss Kitty has sent back your letters You corresponded a good deal. you young people. Here’sapacket that looks like a ring and a cheerful sort of a note from Mannering papa. which I’ve taken the liberty of reading and burning The old gentleman’s not pleased with you. " “And Kitty ?" I asked dully. “Rather more drawn than her father from what she says By the same token you must have been letting out any number of queer reminiscences just be- fore I met you. Says that a man who would have behaved to a woman as you did to Mrs Wessington ought to kill himself out of sheer pity for his kind. .wwv“ She'sa hot headed little Virago. your mash. Will have it. too. that you were snfiering from D. T. when that row on the Jakko road turned up. Says she’ll die before she ever speaks to you again. " I groaned and turned over on the other side. 0 ALA-A- m" UUULL ua\- 57- “Now you’ve got your choice, my friend This- engagement has to be broken off, and the Mannerings don’t want tobe too hard on you. Was it broken through D. T. or epileptic fits? Sorryl can’t ofler you a better ex- I 1 __.._‘A- knrnfl‘i‘fofv that scene on the Ladies' mile. Come! I'll give you five minutes to think over it." _ During those five minutes I believe that I explored thoroughly the lowest circles of the inferno which it is per- mitted man to tread on earth. And at the same time I myself was watching myself faltering through the dark laby- rinths of doubt. misery and utter de- spair I wondered. an Heatherlegh in ' ° have wondered. which dreadful alternative I should adopt. Prwently I heard myself answering in a voice that I hardly recognized _ .1 “.31.. nnrfil'n In? “They're 'coufofindedly particular about morality in these parts. Give ’em fits. Heatherlegh. and my love Now let me sleep a bit longer. ' LA-.. .LJnna and if I‘QQ‘BUA mmmwmmmmmmmmma two selves joined. find it Then my 81! crazed, devil dnven I) ° ' tep by that tossed In my bed. tracmg a step the history of the past month. . , camâ€"In " l lmnt reheat- 'vv‘ “But I am in ins to 11135391! ' “8p UHU "IDQVQJ v_ - “But I am in Simla. " I kept repeat- ing to myself. “1. Jack Panaay. am in Simla. and there are no ghosts here It'a unreasonable of that woman to pre- tend there are Why couldn’t Agnea I never did her any PHANTOM RICKSHAw. 0-000 particular 0-0 Next day I could not leave my bed. Heatherlegh told me in the morning that ha had received an answer from Mr Mannering. and that. thanks to his «.IIeatherlegh's) friendly oflices. the story of my aflliction had traveled through the length and breadth of Simla. where I was on all sides much pitied. “And that’s rather more than you deserve." he concluded pleasantly. “though the Lord knows you've been going through a pretty severe mill. Never mind. We’ll cure you yet. you perverse phenomenon. " - I declifled firmly to be cured. “You have been much too good to me already, old man.” said I. “but I don’t think I need trouble you further. In my hedrt I knew that nothing Heatherlegh could do would lighten the burden that had been laid upon me. With that knowledge came also a sense of hopeless. impotent rebellion against the unreasonableness of it all. There were scores of men no better than It was high noon when I first awoke. and the sun was low in the sky before I sloptâ€"-sl.-pt as the tortured criminal sleeps on his rack. too worn to feel fur ther pain I whose punishments had at least been reserved for another world. and I felt that it was bitterly. cruelly unfair that I alone should have been singled out for so hideous a fate. This mood would in timo give place to another where it seemed that the rickshaw and I were the only realities in a w or 1d of shadows that Kitty was a 'liost; that Manner- i11g. Heatherlegh and all the other men and women I knew were all ghosts. and the great. gray hills themselves but vain shadows devised to torture me From mood to mood I tossed backward and forw ml for seven weary days. my body 1flowing,” daily strongel and strong: er until the bedroom looking class told me that I had returned to eve1y day lite and was as other men once more Cuii ously enough, my face showed no si1'ns of the struggle I had gone through It was pale indeed. but as expressionless and commonplace as ever I had ex pected some permanent alterationâ€"visi ble evidence of the disease that was eat- ing me away. I found nothing. we as Agnes Only I'd never have come back an purpose to kill her Why (can't I be left alnneâ€"left alone and happy ‘I' On the 15th of May I left Heather- legh’s house at 11 o’clock in the morn- ing. 1' d the instinct of the bachelor drove me to the club. There I found that every man knew my story as told by Heatherlegh. and was, in clumsy fashion. abnormally kind and attentive. Nevertheless I recognized that for the rest of my natural life I should be among but not of my fellows, and I en- vied very bitterly indeed the laughing coolies on the mall below. I lunched at the club and at 4 o’clock wandered aim- lessly down the mall in the vague hope of meeting Kitty Close to the band stand the black and white liveries join- ed me. and Iheard Mrs. Wessington’s old appeal at my side. I had been ex- pecting this ever since I came out. and was only surprised at her delay. The phantom rickshaw and I went side by side along the Chota Simla road in si- lence Close to the bazaar Kitty and a man on horseback overtook and passed us. For any sign she gave I might have been a dog in the road. She did not even pay me the compliment of quick- ening her pace. though the rainy after noon had served for an excuse. So Kitty and her companion and l and my ghostly light 0' love crept round Jakko in couples. The road was streaming with water. the pines drip pad like roof pipes on the rocks below and the air was full of fine. driving rain Two or three times I found my self saying to myself almost aloud 0â€"0 "I'm Jack PZIIHI)’ on leave at Shah'â€" at Simlu -ew_»ry«l:iy. ordinary Simln! l mustn't forget thatâ€"l mustn't forget that. " Then 1 would try to recollect some of the gossip I had heard at the club. the prices of So-and-so's horsesâ€" anything. in fact. that related to the workaday Anglo-Indian world I knew so well. I even repeated the multiplica- tion table rapidly to myself. to make quite sure that I was not taking leave of my senses. It gave me much com- fort. and must have prevented my hear- ing Mrs Wessington for a time. i 4‘, , ,4-.. v-v â€"â€"â€" .d a center. and I was left alone with Mrs. Wessington. “Agnes." said I. "will you put back your hood and tell me what it all means?" The hood dropped noiselessly. and I was face to face with my dead and buried mistress She was wearing the dress in which I had last seen her alive; carried the same tiny handkerchief in her right hand and the same cardcase in her left. A woman eight months dead with a cardcase! I had to pin myself down to the multiplication table and to set both hands on the stone parapet of the road to assure myself that that at least was “Bike more I w'earily climbed the con- vent slope and entered the level road Here Kitty and the ma_n ‘stagted of! at tell 3; wlmt it 511 means. " Mrs. Wea- sington leaned forward, with that odd. quick turn of the head I used to know IO well. and spoke. - If my story-had not already so madly overleaned the bounds of all human bo- 00-. TWP “UR" ‘V CHRONIC! E. THURSDAY. MARCH "7. I902. “You lief. I should apologise to you now. As I know that no oneâ€"no. not even Kit- ty. for whom it is written as some sort of justification of my conductâ€"will be- lieve me. I will go on. Mrs. Wessington spoke. and I walked with her from the Banjowlis road to the turning below the commander in chief's house as I might walk by the side of any living woman’s rickshaw. deep in conversa- tion. The second and most tormenting of my moods of sickness had suddenly laid hold upon me. and. like the prince in Tennyson’e poem. "I seemed to move amid a world of ghosts " There had been a garden party at the commander in chief’s. and we two joined the crowd of homeward bound folk. As I saw them then it seemed that they were the shadowsâ€"impalpable fantastic shadows â€"-that divided for Mrs Wessington's rickshaw to pass through. What we said during the course of that weird interview I cannotâ€"indeed I dare not â€"tell. Heatherlegh’s comment would have been a short laugh and a remark that I had been “mashing a brain. eye and stomach chimera. " It was a ghast- ly and yet in some indefinable way a marvelously dear experience. Could it be possible. I wondered. that I was in this life to woo a second time the wom- an I had killed by my own neglect and cruelty? I mét Kitty on the homeward roadâ€"- a shadow among shadows. It I were to describe all the incidents of the next fortnight in their order. my story would never come to an end and your patience would be exhausted. Morning after morning and evening after evening the ghostly rickshaw and I used to wander through Simla to- gether. Wherever Iwent there the four black and white liveries followed me and bore me company to and from my hotel. At the theater I found them amid the crowd of yelling jhampanies: outside the club veranda after a long evening of whist; at the birthday ball waiting patiently for my appearance. and in broad daylight when I went call- ing. Save that it cast no shadow. the ricskhaw was in every respect as real to look upon as one of wood and iron. More than once indeedl have had to check myself from warning some hard riding friend against cantering over it. More than once I have walked down the mall deep in conversation with Mrs. Wessington to the unspeakable amaze- ment of the passershy Before I had been out and about a Week I learned that the “fit" theory had been discarded in favor of insanity However. I made no change in my mode of life. Icalled. rode and dined out as freely as ever I had a passion for the society of my kind which I had never felt before. I hungered to be amorg the realities of life. and at the same time I felt vaguely unhappy when I had been separated too long from my ghostly companion It would be almost impossible to describe my varying moods from the 15th of May up to to- day. The presence of the rickshaw filled me by turns with horror. blind fear. a dim sort of pleasure and utter despair. I dared not leave Simla. and I knew that my stay there was killing me. I knew. moreover, that it was my destiny to die slowly and a little every day. My only anxiety was to get the penance over as quietly as might be. Alternatelyl hun- gered for a sight of Kitty and watched her outrageous flirtations with my suc- cessorâ€"to speak more accurately. my successorsâ€"with amused interest. She was as much out of my life as I was out of hers By day I wandered with Mrs Wessington. almost content. By night I implored heaven to let me re- turn to the world as I used to know it Above all these varying moods lay the sensation of dull. numbing wonder that the seen and the unseen should mingle so strangely on this earth to bound one poor soul to its grave Aug. 27.â€"-Heatherlegh has been inde- fatigable in his attendance on me. and only yesterday told me that I ought to send in an application for sick leave. An application to escape the company of a phantom! A request that the gov- ernment would graciously permit me to get rid of five ghosts and an airy rick- shaw by going to England! Heather- legh's proposition moved me to almost hysterical laughter I told him that I should await the end quietly at Simla. and I am sure that the end is not far off. Believe me that I dread its advent more than any word can say. and I tor. ture myself nightly with a thousand speculations as to the manner of my death. Shall I die in my bed decently and as an English gentleman should die. or in one last walk on the mall will my soul be wrenched from me to take its place forever and ever by the side of that ghastly phantasm‘l Shall I return to my old lost allegiance in the next world or shall I meet Agnes loathing her and bound to her side through all eternity? Shall we two hover over the scene of our lives till the end of time? As the day of my death draws nearer the in- tense horror that all living flesh feels toward escaped spirits from beyond the grave grows more and more powerful It is an awful thing to go down quick among the dead with scarcely one-half of your life completed. It isa thousand times more awful to wait as I do in your midst for I know not what un. imaginable terror. Pity me at least on the score of my “delusion. ” for I know you will never believe what I have written here Yet as surely as ever a man was done to death by the powers of darkness I am that man In justice. too. pity her. For as sure- ly as ever woman was killed by man 1 killed Mm Weasington And the last portion of my punishment is even now 0001! me. Nature. Nature In the good fairy, human na- ture the had. Nature made the world for all; human nature has made It for the fem-London Truth. We’re Selling Suits at Cost While They Last. GROCERXES; [Ll lIIIIIdiIII: IIIIs iII UIH‘ M the IIIII~I IhNil‘ lIIe pm Is III the IIIII II. I' lfllh III IIIII NH \6\ an he I-ceII III .\1I'l‘°IIHIIIIl's “mm M IIIIs may be 0\l|l|ill0d lII' IIIIIIII IIII: III lIiIII 'I'ices right. 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