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. THE" NEW. NOBTHWEST, THITBSDAY JULY, 21, 1881.
1 ' TH E CRYSTAL MAN.- ' I
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Rapidly turning. Into the Fifth avnue from one
of the croea street above the old reeervolr? t
quarter past il o'clock on the night of November
6, 1879, 1 rn plump Into an Individual coming
the other way.
.v It was Very dark on this corner. I could aee
nothing of the person with whom I had the honor
to be In collision. Nevertheless, the quick habit
of a mind accustomed to induction had furnished
me with several well-defined facts regarding him
before I fairly mSjvere from the shock of the en-counter.;;.-
. -' .
These were some of the facts j He was a heavier
man than myself, and stirrer In the legs; but he
lacked precisely three inches and a half jut my
stature. He wore a silk hat,V cape or, cloak of
heavy woolen materia, and rubber overshoe or
Amerlcareducatetfat a German university, either
Helde1brgor Freiburg, naturally of hasty temper, J
but considerate and courteous in ins ueuieaiior 10
other. He was not entirely at peace with aoci
present errand which he desired to conceal,
How did I know all this when I had not seen
the strangerr and when only a single .monosylla
ble had escaped hiJi ? Well, 1 knew that he.
was stouter than myself, and ' firmer on his fttk
because It was J. not he. w ho recoiled. I knew
that X was Just three Inches and a halMaller thanl4n -suiUt-of-jny philosophy,
a fool to pine oa bis account. In Bliss' opinion
all scientific men were more or less foohv.. '--.
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That year I ate Thanksgiving dinner with the
Blisses. In the evening I sought to astonish the
company by reciting the mysterious events on the
night - of mjr collision with the stranger. The
story failed, to produce the expected sensation.
Two or three odious- people exchanged glances.
Iandora, who was unusually pensive, listened
with seeming Indifference. Her father,-In his
stupid Inability .to grasp anything outside .the
commonplace, laughed outright, and evenent so
far. as to question my trustworthiness as an ob
serveof phenoroena ..
Somewhat net tied," Ind jperhap a little shaken
in my own faith iu the marvel, I made an excuse,
to withdraw early. 1'andora accompanied roe to
Ihff-threshold. x Your story," said she, "inter
ested me, strangely. I too could report occur
rences In and about thj house which would sur
prise you. '1 believe lam not wholly in the dark.
The sorrowful pant casta a glimmer of light but
let us not le,haty. ; For my sake probe the mat-
vTlie young woman sighed as she. bade me good-'
night.. I thought I heard a second sigh, in a
dcct er gone J h a n hers, a hd top d i st I net to be a reJ
verberatlon. , . . ... . -.
I legan to go down stairs. Before I had de-
fty there wa-omethtng- in hi- life-or In hl4l-half-adozenjtep, I felt a mail's hand
laid rather , heavily' upon my shoulder from be
hind. My nrst Idea was that Jills had loiioweti
me into the hall to apologize for his rudeness. I
turned around to meet hi friendly overture. No
body was in sigtt. - "-- -"-' '
Again the hand touched my arm. I shuddered
he. for the tin of mv nose was still tingling from
It.innt.Kl wild th. atltr .h.rn tirlm nf hi hut
My hand, involuntarily raised, had come under
the edge of bis cape, lie wore rubber shoes, for I
had not beard a footfall. ' To an observant ear the
Indications of age are as plain in the tones of the
. voice as to the eye in the lines of the countenance.
In the first moment of exasperation at my mal
adroitness,. he. had muttered "Ox P? a term that
would occur to uobody except a German at such a
time. The pronunciation of the guttural, how
ever, ioiu me him l me inrstrr waa an Aiorncin
German, not a German American, and that his
German education had been derived south of the
liver Main. Moreover, the tone of the gentleman
and scholar was manifest eveu In the utterance of
.w in . . I . I . l . f- I
harry, out tor some reason anxious to remain un-
W wjmi n w.a. a. Anna I n.lin i1r.ufn Mnnm .ika . f.l .
thst. aftpr listnlnir In lilrnrH to mv tmllta stml.
ogy, he stooped to recover and restore to me my
umbrella, and then passed on, as noiselessly as tie
' ' bad approached.
I make it a point to verify my conclusions when
possible; sol turned hack into the cross street and
louoweu i ne stranger toward a lamp part way
down the block.- Certainly I was not more than
Jive seconds behind him. There was no other
road that he could have taken. No house door
had opened and closed along the way. And yet,
r when we came Into the light, the form that ought
to have been dlrcetlv In front of m did not rw
i -' pear. - Neither man nor man's shadow was visi
ble. .Hurrying on as fast as I could walk to the
next casliirht. I paused under the lamn and lis
tened. , The street was apparently deserted. The
: ys from the yellow flame readied onhra little
way Into the darkness. The steps and Joorwsv. 1 and arholsrlv hibits. A wood Are was hiirnliur in 1
"1.A..i.a.." AJ . I . 1. - 1. . , i I n & i i ,. tm t a I
uuwticr, ui mv uiii w ii'Biuilc llftuse ISCIIlg H'C
street lamp were sufficiently Illuminated. The
- gilt figures above the door were distinct. I recog
' nixed the house ; the number was a familiar one.
While I stood under the gaslight, waiting, I
heard a slight noise on these steps, and the click
of a keV I II m. Inrk- TllM Vuxlihlllu Antim n lhaliaiiu
was slowly oiened and then closed with a slam
that echoed acrmsjtt) Jtreet. Almost Immedi-
ately followed the sound of the opening and shut
ting of the Inner door. Nobody had come' out.
r Aa far as my eye could be trusted to report an
event hardly ten feet away and In broad light, no
body had gone In. . ...
V 1th a notion that here was scanty material for
an exact application of the Inductive proems, I
stood a long time wildly guesMlug t the phi low
phy of the sirs litre occurrence.- 1 felt that vairtie
aense of the unexnlaliiahle which amount almoxt
read. It WUg g n-lk-I to lu-ar steiwon thsidf-
walk opposite, and, turning, to see a policeman
winging hit long night club and watching me.-
a : ' "IT1'":..- - . ' .
This house of chocolate brown, whose front door
opened and shut at midnight without Indications
. of human agency, was, as I have said, well known
to me. I had left it not more than ten minutes
earlier, after se tiding the evening with my friend
uiiss anq his aaugiuer i'anaorar
The house was of it he sort In which each storr
constitutes a domicile complete In Itself. The
second floor. or flat, had been Inhabited by Bliss
since his return from abroad, thst Is to say. for a
twelvemonth. I held Bliss In esteem for his ex
cellent qualities of heart, while his deplorably il
logical and unscientific mind commanded my
profound pity. I adored Pandora.
Be good enough to understand that my admira
tion for Pandora Bliss was hopeless, ami not only
hopeless, but resigned to Its hopelessness. Ju our
circle of acquaintance there was a tacit covenant
-that t lyong-l ally's preti I inr-TwxItfon-Tis flirt
Wedded to a . memory should lie at all times re
spected. We adored 1'andora mildly, not passion-ately--Jit
enough to feeil her coquetry without
excoriating tho wnrtil surface of her widowed
t heart. On her part, ruhdora onductei herwlf
With signal proi.rlel3'. Mietlld not sigh too ob
trusively when she flirted; and she always kept
ner lunations a well in haiui Mist she could cut
them short whenever the fond, sad recolU'otlon
came welling up., ,
It was conilderel proper for us to tell Pandora
that she owed it to her yooth nnd beauty to put
aside the dead iiat like a cloned lnok. and to unn?ljJeJnic
:tierlVKwfmiy-tn-Trme forth Into the living
-present, " It was not considered Proif r to press the
subject after slu had oitco replied Xhat this was
forever Impossible. " , - , . r
The particulars of thelraglc eplsoile In Mjss
lv 1 1 . 1 ' liiiamiA.ia .aW lui.li.n.in ma k ma. afe k
lately known to us. It was underrtood. In
Vague way, that she had loved while abroad, and
trifled with her lover; that he had disappeared,
leaving her In ignorance of hi fate and In perpet
ual remorse for her capricious behavior. From
Bliss I had gathered at times a few sporadic facts,
not coherent enough to form a hiftory of the case.
There .was no reason to Itelleve that Pandora's
lover hsd committed suicide, Hit, name-waa
&Wail(."Hewas a st'fetUjfle man. In Bliss' opfn-J pmxlmste principles of th?Jlp.idctJl.-CO
--tiwaKjDOirtrCTW ae wiie it Hfe ijlifmate1 "elemeutsT
Tlds time the hand arently Pulled at my coal-
sleeve, as if to jnvite me up stairs. . I asceuded a
step or two and the pressure on my arm was re
laxed. I paused; and the silent Invitation was re
peated with an urgency that left no doubt as to
what was wanted. .
We mounted the stairs togetlier, the presence
leading the way, I following. What an extraor
dinary journey it was! The halls were bright
with gaslight, liy the testimony or my, eyes mere
was no one but myself upon the stair wsy. Clos
ing my eyes, the illusion, if Illusion It could be
called, was perfect. 1 could hear the creaKing oi
the stairs ahead of me, the sort but distinctly
audible footfalls synchronous with my own, even
the regular breathing of mv companion and
gulde-J5x tending my arm," icould touch and
finger the skirt or his garment a heavy woolen
cloak lined with silk. -y
- (-Suddenly I opened my eye. They told me
agsln that I was absolutely alone.
Tills problem then presented itself to mind:,,
How to determine whether vision was playing me
false, while the sense of hearing and feeling cor
rectly Informed me, or whether my ears and touch'
lied, while my eyes. reported the truth. -Who
shall be arbiter when the sense contradict each
other? The reasoning faculty ? Reason was In
clined to recognize the presence of an Intelligent
being, whose existence waa flatly denied by the
most trusted of the sense. - -.
We reached the topmostfloor of the house.The
door leading ont of the public hall opeued for me,
apparently of Its own accord. A curtain within
seemed to draw Itself aside; and hold Itself aside
long enougn to give me Ingres to an apartment
wherein every appointment spoke of good taste
the chimney-place. - The wall were covered with
book and picture. The lounging chairs were
capacious and Inviting. There was nothing in
the room uncanny, nothing weird, nothing differ
ent from the furniture of every -day flesh and
blood existence. ''
By ''this time I had cleared my mind of the last
lingering suspicion of.Jhe supernatural. These
rihenomena were perhaps not Inexplicable. All
hat I lacked was the key. . The behavior of my
unseen host argued his amicable disposition. I
was able to watch with perfect calmness a series
of manifestations of Independent energy on the
part of lnanimate objects. '
In the first place, a great Turkish easy. chair
wheeled itseii out or a corner or the room and aw
iroachcd the hearth. Then a 4uare-backel
Jueeii Anne- chair .started -from another corner,
the first. A little tripod table lifted Itself a few
Inches above the floor and took a position lietween
the-two chalrsi A hick"ictavof volume; backed
out of ifsdace on the shelf and nailed tranquilly
through the air at the height of three or four feet,
landing' neatly on top of the table. jA finely
I tain ted porclalr!pe, left the hook on the wall
and Joined the volume. A tobacco-box Jumped
from the mantelpiece. The door of a' cabinet
swung open, and a decanter and wineglass made
theJonrneTlnrcompanyrarrivIng simultaneously
at the same destination. . Kverythlngln theroonr
sH'med Instinct with the spirit or hospitality.
I seated myself in the easy .chair,' filled the
wineglass. Ugh tod the pipe and examined the vol
ume. It was the MHandbuch der Gewebelehre"
of Bussiusof Vienna. When I had replaceil the
Utok upon the table, It deliberately opened Itself
at the four hundred and forty-thirtf page.
" ou are not nervous 7" demanded a voice, not
tour reel rrom my tympanum.
This voice had a familiar sound. I recognised
It as the voice which I heard In the street on the
fnlght tf N orembermhTwhcrr ir TOtledtnirafl Mr
".No," I said ; "I am not nervous. I am a man
of science,' accustomed to regard all phenomena as
explainable by natural laws, provided we can dis
cover the laws. No, I am not frightened."
'"So much the letter. You are a hfan of science,
like myself here the voice groaned ua man of
'nerve, and a friend of Pandora's." - , v r.-
"Pardon, me," I , interpoed. - "Since a ladv's
PAine is IhtriMlucetl, it would' be well to know with
whom or with what I am speaking."
"That Is precisely what I-desire to communi
cate," replied the voice, "before I ak you to ren-
u-grea t-ser vice: si y-namei 4. or wa
Stephen Flsck. Ijim or-have been citizen of
the lu 1 ted Males. My exact status at present Is
as great a myt-tcyjo myself as it can posslbly-be
to you. But I am ori an honest than and a
gentleman, and I offer you my hand."
ever, and it met the pressure or warmpiivtng
flngrrs.,
"Now," resumed the voice, after this silent pact
of friendship, "be good enoughjo read the passage
at which 1 have opened the book upon the table."
Here Is a rough translation of what I rvad In
German: -; v
"As the color of the organic tissues constituting
1 lhe Jbody.Ale panda . upon lh presence do.xertaia.
follow that the hue may vary according to well
defined chemlco-phylologlcal change. An ex
cea of ba?matln In the blood globule give a
ruddier tinge to every tlwae. The mUnkn ' , i
color the choroid of the eye, the Irl, the hair,
may be increased or diminished according to law
recently formulated by Scbarfil of Basel. In the
rplderm Is the exces of melanlne makes the negro,
the dellclent upply the albino. The ha?matlne
and the melanlne, together with the greenish
yellow blllverdlne and the reddish-yellow urosa
cine, are the pigment which Impart color charac
ter to tissue otherwise transparent, pr nearly so.
I deplore my Inability to record the, result of some
highly Interesting histological experiment con
ducted by that indefatigable Investigator, roliker
of Freiburg, who Is said to have achieved amaz
ing success in the way of coloration and discolora
tion of the human body by chemical njeaus.'L
"For five years," continued my unseen compan
ion, when I had finished readiug."I waa Irol
Iker' student and laboratory assistant at Frei
burg. Busslu only half guessed at .the import
ance of our experiments. We reacbtfd resulW
which were so astounding' that public policy re
quired they should not be publUhed, eveu to the
scientific world. Froliker died a year ago-last
Augustr--r'-"'-- ---- --
1 had faith In the genius of this great thinker
aoddmirable inaOi- If ImmI rewarded iny-nn
questioning loyalty with lull confidence, I should
not now be a miserable wretch. But his natural
reserve, and the Jealousy with which all savants
guard their unverified results, kept me Ignorant
of . the essential -formuhe governing. our experi
ments. As his disciple, I was familiar with the'
laboratory detail of the work; the master alone
possessed the radical secret. - The consequence is
that I have been led Into a misfortune more ap
lalllng than has beenlhe lot of any human being
since the primal curse fell upon Cain.
"Our eff orts were at first directed to the enlarge
ment amrVarlatldntof theqtiantlty of pigmentary
matter in the system. By increasing the propor
tion of melanlne, for instance, conveyed in food to
the blood, we. were able to make a fair man dark,
a dark man black as an African. There waa
scarcely a hue. we could not impart to the skin by
modifying and varying our combinations. The
experiments were usually tried on me. At differ
ent timet J had been copper-colored, violet-blue,
crimson aud chrome-yellow. For one triumphant
week I exhibited In my person all the colors of
the rainbow. There still remains a witness to the
interesting character of our work during this
e voice paused, and In a few seconds a hand-
bell upon the mantel was sounded. Presently an
old'man with a close-fitting skull cap shuffled
Into the room. - v '
JL'Kaspar," said the voice, in German, "show the
gentleman your hair." - - " . ' '
Without manifesting any surprise, and as If
perfectly accustomed to receive commands ad
dressed to him out of .vacancy, the old domestic
bowed and removed his cap. The scanty lock
thus discovered were of a lustrous emerald-green.
J expressed my astonishment.
"The gentleman And your hair Very beautiful."
said the voice, again in uerman. "mat is an,
Kaspar.". j - '
Ileplaclng his cap, the domestic withdrew, with
a look of gratified vanity on his face. - .
"Old Kaspar was Froliker' servant and I now
mine. He was the subject of one of the first ap
plications of the process. ' The worthy man Was
so pleased wlttv the result tnat nejvouid. never
rrmlt"uslo restore to his hair Its original red.
lie Is a faithful soul, and my only intermediary
and representative in the visible world..
VNow' continued Flack, 4Uo the story of my
undoing. The great histologist with whom it was
my privilege to be associated next turned his at
tention :ta another-and- still-more Interesting
branch of the Investigation. Hitherto he had
sought merely to Increase or to modify the pig
ments In the tissues. ll now began a- series of
experiments aa to thepossibi!ity of eliminating
those pigments altogether from the system by ab
sorption, exudation, and the use of the chlorides
and other chemical agents acting on organic mat
ter. He was only too successful!
- "Again I was the subject of experiments which
Froliker supervised, imparting to me-only so
much oi the secret or ins processes as was un
11 i n
avoidable. KoryaTkaataainie I remained Trtityfll
urlvafe laboratory, seeing no one and seen by no
one excepting the professor aud the trustworthy
Kaiar. J lerr-r roMker proceeded witn caution,
closely watching the effect of each- new test, and
advancing by degrees. He never went so far in
one experiment that he was unable to withdraw
at discretion. He always kept open an easy road
for retreat. For that reason I felt myself perfect
Iy safe in his hands and submitted to whatever he
required.- i -"..,, -,-'' - .
"I'-nder the aetlorrpf the etiolating drugsrwhlclrf
inei'roiessor administered in connection witn
powerful detergents, I became at first pale, white,
colorless' as an albino, but without suffering in.
general health. My hair and beard looked like
spun glass and my skin like marble The Pro
fessor was satisfied with his results, and went, no
further at this time. He restored me to my nor
mal color. . .- -
"In the next experiment and In those sueceed-
LLlng, he allowed his chemical agent to take firmer
hold upon. the tissues of my body. I became not
not only white, like a bleached man, but slightly
trapslucent7inte"an(rcelal rf.Tlgu&r'ienagaiu
he paused for a while, giving me back my color
and allowing me to go forth into the world. Two
months Inter I was more than transluceut. You
have seen floating those sea radhte,the medusie
or Jelly tlh, -their outlines almost invisible to the
eye; Welt, I became In the air like a Jelly fish in
the water. Almost perfectly transparent, Vwa
only by close inspection that old Kaspar could
discover my whervalMiuts in the room when he
came to bring me food." It was Kasr who niin
Utered tuny wants at times wheu I was clois
tered." -
ttntryTTOrr'thtng4?"- I"tnntmTniiterruplIng
Flack's narrative. "That must have stood out in
stniug -tntrat with the dim aspect of your body."
"Ah. no," said Flack. 'Tlie spectacle of an ap
parently empty suit, or clothes moving about the
laboratory was too grotesque even for the grave
r'roressor. tar mm protection nr ma gravity he
was obliged to devise a way to apply his process
to dead organic matter, ucu aa the wool of my
cloak, the cotton of my shirts, and the leather of
my shoes. v Thus I came to be equipped with the
outfit which still serve me.
"It wa at this stage of our progress, when we
had almost attained perfect transparency, and
therefore complete Invisibility, that I met landorav
t,"tt1'uur experimenting, and at a time when ;T pre-"
sented my natural appearance, I went Into the
Bc.b-W?f?rVd t""pte. I first saw and ad!
mired 1'andora at the little village of St. Blaslen
They had entne from the Fall jtt the Khlnerand
were traveling north ; I turned around and trav.
eled north. At the Stern Inn I loved Pandora
at the .ummlt of the Feldberg I madly worshiped
her.,:n,the -Hollenpaaa I was ready to sacrifice
my life for a gracious word from her lips. On
liornisgrinde I besought her permission to throw
myself from the top of the mountain Into the
gloomy water of , the. JJummelsee In order to
prove my devotion, . You know Pandora, since
you know her there 1 no need to apologize for the
rapid growth of my Infatuation. She wa charm
ing., , She flirted with nie, laughed, with me
laughed at me, drove, with me, walked with me
through byway In the green wood, climbed with
me up acclivities sa steep that eiimblmr inirttkAV
, was one delicious, prolongei embrace; talked scl-
encerwitn ,me, and sentiment; listened to my
hopes and enthusiasms, snubbed me, froze nie:
raaddeneti me all at her sweet will, and all while
her matter-of-fact pupa dozed In the coffee-rooms
of the inns over the ilnanclal columns of the latent
New York newspaper. But whether she loved
'me I know not to this day. .. ;...:...,
r"rWhen Pandora's father learned what my pur
suits were, and what niy propect, he brought
-our little-idyl to-an abrupt teiTOtmrtlonrtlhink"
he classed me somewhere Itelow the professional
jugglers anu me qiiacK-nociors. lHjVant l
ex
plained to him that I should tie famous and prpW
ably rich. 'When you -are famous and rlch,',he
remarked, with a grin, I shan't? p1eaed to see '--you
at my oflUt; in Broad street.' He carried
Pandora off to Pari, and I returned to Freiburg.
'A few weeks later, one bright afternoon in Au-
gust, I stood in Froliker laboratory unseen by j
four 'person who were almost within the radius of
my arm's length. Kaspar was, behind me, wash
ing some test tubes. Froliker, with a proud smile
upon his face, was gazing Intently at the place
where he knew I ought to be. Two brother pw
fessors, summoned on some pretext, were uncon
sciously almoct Jostling me with their elbows as
they discussed I know not what trivial question.
They could have heard my heart beat. 'By the
Way, Herr Professor,' one asked, as he was about '
to depart, 'has your assistant. Herr Flacky 'rev
turned from his vacation?' The test was perfect,
"A, soon as we were . alone, Professor- Froliker
grasped my invisible hand a you have grasped it
to-night. He was in high spirits.
lily dear feljow,' he saidr-'to-morrow-crown
i- . - ii . ' .
our wurw lou snaii, appear or ratner noi ap
pear before the assembled Faculty of the Univer
sity I. have-telegraphed invitations to Heidel-
berg, to Bonn, to Berlin, rkhrotter, Haeckelr
Steinmetz, Lavalle will be there. - Our triumpli.
will be in presence of the most eminent physicians
of the age. I shall then disclose those secret of -our
process which I have hitherto withheld even -from
you. my co-laborer and trusted friend. ' But
yon shall share the glory. .What J this I hear
about the forest bird that has flown? My boy,
fou shall be restocked -.with pigment ana feo to -arls
to seek her with fame In your hands and the
blessing of Science on your head.' '
"The next morning, the 19th of August, before I ' '
had risen from my cot bed, Kaspar hast liy entered"
the laboratory.' - "
'"Herr Flack ! Herr Flack V he gasped, 4the
Herr Doctor Professor is dead of apoplexy.' " :
never I Th
narratl v liad ome to a end. J aat a long
time thinking. 'What could I do? What could I
saji? In what shape could I offer consolation to
this unhappy man?
Flack, the Invisible, was sobbing bitterly. He
was the first to speak. ;
. . "it Is hard, hard, hard I For no crime. In the
eyes of man, for no sin In the sight of God, I have
been condemned, to a fate ten thousand timet
worse than hell. I must walk the earth, a man,
living, seeing, loving, like . other men, while be
tween nie and all that make life worth having -there
is a barrier fixe I forever. Even, ghosts have
shapes. My life Is living death : my existence ob
livion. No friend can look me In the face. Were
I to clasp to my breast the woman I love, it would
oply be to Inspire terror inexpressible.' I see her
almost every da y. I brush against her skirts arl
pass her on the sta Irs.- Did si) eJ.Qi ejmLCX-JJocs-she
love me? Would not that knowledge make
the curse still more cruel? Yet It was to learn'
thf truth flint I hifititrht vnn lirt
- Then I made the greatest mistake nf my life.
"Cheer up !" I said, "pandora has a I way loveoV
you." '
By the sudden overturning of the table I knew
witn. what vehemence Flack sprang to his feet.
His two hands held my shoulders In a fierce grip.
"Yes,'JI continued ; "Pandora has been faithful
to jjMirjiiemory. Thcrw Is no-rcnsnn"'ln tlexpair-
The secret of r router's process, died witn mm,
but whv should It not lie nnllncovcWNl bv experi
ment and Induction aft initio, with' the aid which
J'ou can render? Have courage and hope. She
oveeyour Iu five minutes you shall hear It from
her own lips." ' . '
. No wall of pain that I ever heard was half so
pathetic as his wild cry ofloy.
I hurried down stairs and summoned Miss Blis
Into the hall. In a few words I explained the sit
uation. To my surprise, she neither fainted nor
went into hysterics. ' . ,
2'rtainlyr wJjraciropanytou,
with a smile which I could not then I interpret.
She followed nie into Flack's room, calmly
scrutinizing every corner of the apartment, with
the set smile still un her face.. Had she been
entering a ball-room, she could not have shown a
greater self-poHseHslon.She.roanlfeeted no aMon-
Uhnient, no terror, when her hand was seized by
InviMible hand and covered with kisses from In
visible Hps. she listened with composure to the
torrent of loving and caressing words which my.
unfortunate friend poured into her ears.
'Perplexed and uneasy, I watched the strange
ecene l!riscntJyMbssJiUsawJthdreW Jierha nd.
'Jleally, Mr. Flack," she said, with a HsV?
laugh, "you are suillcichtly demonstrative. Did-r
you acquire the habit on the Continent?"
"Pandora !" I heard him say. "I do not under-
ImimI "
"Perhaps," she calmly went on, "you regard It
as one of the privileges of our l"lblllty.
nie c?ngratulate you on the success or your eXr
-l . .I.... man lirf KOr
what Is hi name? must be. ou can make a
fortune by exhibiting yourself." ; .
Wa this the woman who for month had paraded
her Inconsolable eorrow.for the loss of this very
maii ? I wa stupefied. Who shall undertake to
n.lrt. Iha MnllvM nf Annll.lUT What BClcnCC
prpiufouiul eunuglftu unravel fierTDmconscionable
"Pandora J" he exclaimed again, In a bewildered
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