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Show THE SELECTED. | tery Tor courtship, _ , Once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as the sunlight drinketh dew. —Tom Kiss, sunbeams, Moore. kiss | The dear old face of earth, And bring the sap to the bursting bud, And bring the flower to birth! Kiss, kiss, and kiss! Ir sucn 1 was, 1 cowla not understand. I had unraveled the cipher of the note I had found, and .by taking the first word of each line, White Hollow, read: ‘I must see twelve, midnight.” figure. time, you. Isat, as had grown to be my custom, under the dark maple. It was midnight and past. The wall as usual yielded its This without doubt, a | woman’s. She moved swiftly down the garden walk end out of sight. I took | my place as .iecarly as possible where I had first seen her, and waited. . An hour -had passed beiore I again heard the faint brushing of her gown against the shrub- —From the Greek. In delight, Both of her beauty and submissive charms, Smiled with superior love, as Jupiter On Juno smiles when he impregns the clouds “WESTERN WEEKLY. a few |'ping| Waited noiselessly seconds, and then Slip- | eave my Crs. 1 near it always | heard the panel I had learned it then’”’—he shuddered, and covered his face with his hands for a few seconds, it was, as | expected to find it, dark and | then started up in a listening attitude as empty. I groped my way slowly to the he cried: ‘‘There! [heard it! Oh, I heard it to know last night, I entered the gallery. | lowerend. A strong blast of wind and the again! Help me! Help me! Oh, Charlie, beating of rain on the wail outside an- you heard nothing, did you?” I stroked his brow soothingly, and putnounced the arrival of the storm. A strong glare overhead the first time aware outer world above mea that entered made me light from here. giass plate, clear, I now but for ting a pocket flask to his lips, 1 urged the , him to swallow a little of the stimulant. saw very heavy, semi-circular in form and semihorizontal in position; doubtless unnoticeable from without, but concentrating in daytime a fair light on the table. The wind was bearing the storm on rapidly; each moment there were renewed | [n a few seconds, haustion, he had D. G. Mullen, — NFECTIONER so complete was his ex- fallen into a nervous 0 slumber. An old family servant beckoned me to wih door, and closed it behind us as he said: Buckeye Ginger Ale. ‘Mars Charles, don’t yer let on ter Mars Reynolds, but. fo’ de Laud ye kyan he’p > south corne:, close under the shadow of hearin’ dem heathen noises what Miss the dark gray stone. The point where a peals of thunder, and an almost constant -be’n 0 er makin’ sence fo’ day Jes’ fur all stream of light came through the circle of Kiss me as if you entered gay jutting angle made almost blackness was de wurl like de ole ’oman, her ma, made, glass. My heart at some noonday, reached, and, by aswift movement,which A bud that dared not disallow | I was determined to await my visitor’s s0 folks say. T’ank de Laud I wusn’t came the nearest possible to being too here den, when dey had her shet up in The claim, so all is rendered up late, I contrived to insert a twig between | return, and looked about for a hiding dat room what Miss Nita got now.” _ Over your head to sleep I bow. place. A jutting corner offered the shelter the edges of a spring door as the woman’s z —Browning. I could only repeat: ‘‘The old woman?” Isought. I stepped intoit, andasI did | figure dissolved into darkness, I applied “Why, you see—dat. what dey tell me s0, dislodged some material which must my ear to the narrow opening, and could —de ole man couldn’t er got de money ef have hung on a peg above me, and which hear quick footsteps along a stone floor. de folks in dem furrin places ’d er knowed fell, covering my head and shoulders in At length all was silent, and I entered. soft, close, yet metallicfolds. I threw it dat de ole ’owan ’d gone out’n her mine. The door swung noiselessly on its hinges o The appointments of my room were | and closed behind me. I found utter quickly off, and it fell tothe floor in a heap So he just switched her off here, en norwhich glittered strangely in the flashes ated in no time how dat she was dead. Heavy Interest when you can borrow luxuriously delightful, and I slept, slept darkness and a damp odor for comof light. I took it up quickly and bore it En fo’ de Laud, dar she was shet up, en profoundly—lI do not know how long—but || pany. [felt my way slowly and cautiously. to the nearer light. It was _ blindingly nobody knowin’ de way ter her cep’n de was awakened by a sense of not being Occasionally the gallery widened somedazzling—a curiously wrought suit of ble man hisself en Miss Nita. When de it was barely wide alone; a watched, startled feeling as a’ what, but usually finest silver wire, soft and yielding as po’ creeter died dey shet up de sta’rway, At Low Rates and on Easy Terms of white, swift moving object passed along en Miss Nita ’low she mine ter live in dat silk. I folded it, as I might have done a the tapestried wall opposite me and disap- enough fur me to walk comfortably. room herse’f; but h’it clean beat Jacob’s silk handkerchief, and put it into my There were frequent turns, and twice I eared. I sprang up, and, lighting my amp, threw the rays from astrong Argand ascended narrew stairways, and at length pocket. I was no longer at a loss for my time how she kin stay dar. Hear dat?’ It was the same sound I had heard burner through the room. I lifted the reached the terminus of the gallery on nightly visitor’s silvery whiteness! SALT LAKE CITY. A half hour more had passed, There when in- Reynolds’ room. tapestry. Nothing but oak panels, solid what seemed the second floor of the build‘‘Dat de way de ole ’oman kyar on when ing. I struck a match—I had but two was a sudden ee air from the outer Cor. Main and Second South Sts., in and substantial enough, under my close and must be careful of them—but there world, bearing withit the increased sound dem'spells wus on her. En dem soun’s White House Building. gaze. I could think of nothing which, of water pouring heavily down. Steps been reachin’ out here sence fo’ day. Ye moving outside, might have produced this was nothing to see. Only the narrow walls of a secret passage! No door to be upon the stone pavement, and I knew my- in guess now why dat po’ lovin’ creeter effect within, and, try as I would, I could in dar ’d rather think he crazy hisself ’n seen! I retraced my steps, but the enself, at last, shut in with the ghost of offer no solution of the odd apparition. ter hear dat noise. I be’n er humorin’ uv trance had vanished. There was but a- Penares. I had come to Penarse for twenty-four smooth stone surface. I pressed every I listened with a beating heart. The him, but I dunno!” and the old man shook hours, with my old schoolmate, Reynolds his head sadly. spot in search of a secret spring, but in tones of a man’s voice fell on my ear, fol_ Herholf, who, by marriage with its young The sick man still slept, and I stepped. Spanish mistress, lately orphaned, had vain, and after an hour of useless search lowed by those of a womaninreply. Both I turned I cursed my own folly and idle curiosity were suppressed, but Icould occasionally softly to the adjoining room. become its master. the key, lifted the latch, and ventured a for having thus entrapped me. I struck distinguish a word or detatched parts of I always rather fancied mysteries. I Full line of Boots, Shoes, Hats, Sometimes with a tender in- cautious glance behind the portiere. liked fathoming them. I considered my- my other match and noticed that the lit- Sentences. tle gallery here, at its beginning, was flecticn, more usually with eager accent In the room beyond the room in which Caps, Gloves, Dry Goods self a first class amateurdetective. Iwas widened into a sort of vestibule large I stood, Anita Herholf, the most beautiand indicating an absorbing topic. in good spirits—‘‘a vague looking forward avd Notions; enough to hold atable and achair, and ful woman I had ever seen, was a raving Once the man’s tones became quite to some pleasantness’—as I went down to bent off in one direction into a sort of al-: clear. maniac. Her long hair hung like a thick breakfast. Choice Groceries. cove. I could not suppress an exclama: “White powcer, if the drops don’t cloud about her; her magnificent eyes I made no mention of my little experiAll orders promptly attended to. delight as I discovered a answer. were distended and bloodshot; her clothRemerber, by Thursday—beats ence during the night to my host, but I tion of candle on the table. Besides ing torn and disordered; and as she Box 3, Center Street, forty-five’—— accepted the renewed invitation that I'| short candle the table held pens, A sudden peal of deafening thunder swayed her slim, graceful figure back and would lengthen the twenty-four hours to this PROVO, UTAH. ink, paper and an odd copper salver forth in a movement almost snake like in drowned the tones, and when I could disa week. with a heavy wrought rim in antique its suppleness, she uttered a dog like tinguish them again he was saying: When night came the house was full **Be sure of your work. We shall have snarl, which occasionally was prolonged of guests, and it was late before the design, the center a smooth, polished surAn odd ornament for this strange nothing to fear—everything to hope.” into the revolting sound that reached building was quiet. I leaped easily to face. place, I thought. I looked at the pens. Reynolds’ room. Incipient disease had A few moments’ silence, then whispered the ground, from the balcony below my One had been recently used. As Isat un- words. been developed by the strain her nerv1 guessed through the darkness window, and trusted to the lessons my decided whether to call for help, or await ous system had been under, and the electhat he was leaving her. By a sudden limbs had learned in boyhood to get back the return of the habitues of the place tric shock had hastened the climax. flash I saw him bend overthe table, and, again. for my release, a light flashed upon me The murderess. was feeling her own fangs! The lights were not yet all out, so I sat lifting the waiter, disclose an opening I picked up the glitI summoned medical aid at once. The down to wait under the shadow of a from a dark corner. He tering thing—a locket with a jeweled. from which he took a roll of papers. physician pronounced Mr. Herholf unfriendly maple. As I sat, I observed a placed them in his breast and turned to doubtedly a victim to the deadly narcotic monogram. .I pressed the spring, and disdark figure moving slowly along the Again he turned, folded his closed a dark, wicked, magnificently the door. foxglove. His condition for weeks was southern wall. handsome face. I knew it in an instant companion in a passionate embrace, and one between life and death, with almost ‘Ah! my friend of last night,” I said in was gone. —that of Alvarez Dacarro! a mai) whose no hope of recovery. His wife was placed my Own mind, expecting every minute to A thrill passed like an elettric shock Manufacturers of the Finest in an asylum, where she died before he pee a ‘‘magic lantern” performance. I name afew years ago had been on every through my frame. That dark, handlip, who was. now remembered for his was able to leave his room. He never watched it closely. I could but dimly and Purest some Spanish face, with its jagged scar wickedness and his perfidy, who was knew her crime. When he was able to discern the outline, as it stood death across the left cheek, had I not its coun. under sentence of death, and who had travel he went abroad, leaving the house still, the head thrown slightly back, despoiled Reynolds Herholf’s father-in- terpart in my possession? in my care. I destroyed the contents of as if the eyes were watching closely some The storm was now at its height. point above them. Something white law of half his fortune through the Waves of wind and water seemed testing the tablein the secret gallery, from which strange, magnetic influence he had acI had undoubted proofs that my susfloated slowly down from an upper winPeal after picions were correct, and that Anita Herquired over his daughter. She at one the house to its foundation. dow. <A zephyr caught it; it rose again, peal of thunder reverberated on my ears. time had wished to marry him, but had holf was poisoning her husband, that she and then descended obliquely. I could In the Market. been made, it was said, to see his perfidy Suddenly a. blinding flash of lightning might give herself legally to the villain see it now—a bit of white papcr—at my came, like a stream. of liquid fire, pourbefore it was too late. whom her father had refused to let her feet. I heard alow, muttered curse as ing through the crescent, permeating, as 850 E. First South St., Salt Lake City The locket, I supposed, had been Mrs. marry during his lifetime. He, Alvarez, the man groped about on hands and Herholf’s, and the maid who nsed this it were, the entire gallery and outlining having just left the gallery as the bolt knees in the darkness. Again and again each stone in the moldy wall. The woman came, was killed by the falling tree, and he searched, but in vain. I was on the passage for her midnight meeting probaseemed -. loped in flames as tongues of never lived to be punished for his crimes. pe of announcing myself and offering bly had stolen it. fire played around her figure The deafPutting the jewel in my pocket,,.I began I keep the waiter, though the face after im his billet doux, as I conceived it to ening peal of thunder I was dimly conNoone be, when the sweet notes of a mocking again, with the aid of the candle, a fresh scious of as I fell to the floor stunned and a few hours was unrecognizable. search for hidden springs. I returned to can read from it, as 1 did, the secret of the bird fell on my ear—so wonderfully clear, blinded. the further endof the gallery, as that “Ghost of Penares.” . so perfectly imitated, as to command my WhenI recovered my consciousness it surface was a smaller one to look over. I Five in a Hundred . The dress of silver gauze I keep also, Only profound astonishment and induce my was with a woman’s shriek resounding in with the little lamp which Anita Herholf silence. Three times he repeated the had passed many times from end to end my ears By the fitful illumination from f th : Si acl t | warbling notes, and then moved swiftly z Gra cubefore uy proto, BhOeetea mere soe nO I must always have carried; and by the aid separately, I noticed pin- | the lightning Isaw that I wasalone. of a narrow, oblique mirror in the ceiling, again to the wall. Mirabile dictu! again went to the table and lighted the candle; the effect was produced of a figure at one a white messenger floated down. He point, where the stone seemed slightly no fixed purpose inducing me, perhaps, roughened. I pressedit. A door swung end and a shadow ut the other, or a ghost, seized it, and disappeared in the darkness. still not quite recovered from the electric guickly open on noiseless hinges, anda *““A maid and her lover,”I said, in conshock. Mechanically I picked up the as I have always called it. It was one to| draught blew some silken fabric across me!—Mary A. Blane in Frank Leslie. tempt of my own curiosity, as I proceeded copper waiter which now lay on the floor, I freed myself from the mato light my lantern and try my ‘‘effects.” my cheek. and which I had seen, when the vivid terial and looked around me. The bright Bah! Nothing could have been less like lightning had come, in the woman’s hand. through a large window, the filmy, translucent vision of the moonlight, I started at the sight of it. Its former night before than my yellow, shapeless showed me my own room! I went to the door. It was bolted, as I glittering surface was so no longer; burnt glare. | 156 HE. 3rd South St., 5. L. City. into it and confrenting me were the feaI blew out the candle and stood looking had left it. My room, then, was in the tures of a well known face. How well I I examined the into the darkness of my room. Ha! By secret passage route. knew those long, almond eyes! that paneled wall, but could discover no sign Jove, there it went again! The perfect gracefully curved chin! the thin, tightly outline of a slim, white, human figure of a doorway, and as there was nothing compressed lips! That shed May flowers, and lip With kisses pure. pressed her matron bery. She followed the wall, from its —Milton. Cor. Wain and ora South/Sis. A STRANGE PHOTOGRAPH. ' DON’T PAY MONEY The Rank of Salt Lake, | ‘ : Se ye — Tucketi’s Naam Coady Factary, CANI e TAGOART @ CHAMBERLAIN ‘thrown against the dark silk tapestry! Before my eyes it had appeared and disappeared. I could not tell whence it had come or whither it had gone. [| climbed to the balcony, room and thoroughly, again but examined without the forming the smallest solution to my odd vision. The note I had picked up was, after all, no love letter—a bit of waste paper—and ran as follows: Ihave read that we Must not look back of Elizabeth’s reign to See chimneys in use. You can imagine that White walls in those days were Hollow mockeries indeed! A Twelve foot room would bea Midnight dungeon. c to be developed by conjectures, I soon fell asleep. Twice during the following day I sought an interview with Mrs. Herholf, but was unable to see her. I had determined to tell her all I knew of the use which was being made of the secret passage, and to restore her locket, as well planation of my as seek an ex- ‘‘silver ghost,” as I had called my nightly visitor. Herholf was confined to his room, and his wife remained with him. Worn out with my watch of the night before, I retired early, and soon fell into heavy sleep, from which the oppressive sultriness of the nightrousedme. I went to the window. The thick darkness was I was soon sleeping soundly, and only wakened in time to prepare for a luxurious 10 o’clock breakfast. I was unusually impressed by Herholf’s haggard appear- only the more manifest by the occasional brilliant flashes in the south, which fore- ance. Suddenly, I seemed to hear or feel a human breath. I caught my own, and listened with an intensity of purpose which. defeated its own object. The blood whirred in a heavily pulsing stream past my ears, in its round to and from the Ue assured me that he was well, but to me he looked feeble and worn. I wondered that I had not observed it more on the day of my arrival. A couple of days passed, and once again I had seen my strange visitor. The figure that I had seen on the second evening, from my seat under the maple, I had seen several times since. Sometimes it disappeared in the wall of the house; sometimes it came out of the wall! There must be a secret door, but I could not find it; and why a pair . vants should choose midnight of ser- and mys- told an approaching storm. I was seated by an open window close to the tapestried wall. brain. Likeaflash the white, floating, illuminate figure came and melted away, at the other end of the wall, as I felt through the tapestry curtain the contact of a passing human figure close by me! Now I knew that what Ihad seen had been a reflection! No wonder it had melted to nothingness when I seized it. I recalled some broken — sentences: ‘Drops not strong enough—white powder —beats forty-five—all over.” A sudden, terrible suspicion broke upon . \ vee SED: ua eres AMES yee me as Reynolds Herholf’s ghastly face, growing thinner and thinner daily, rose before me. She was giving him — ot hf Resse EI . ce Beak ea == Nk \ Ny drops weak condition, yet to tell I should do. him without tausing excitement was impossible. waiter would condemn her, survive the discovery? I reached my room when there upon my door, and I obeyed so Reynolds’ room. © The but could he had scarcely was a knock a summons Beads of moisture stood upon his brow, bod he breathed with intense difficulty. He apologized for disturbing me to keep him company, but the storm had made him sleepless. ‘‘Besides,” he went on, ‘I thought I heard a scream, a fearful, horrible scream, last night, when the lightning struck that tree on the lawn. Iwas too weak to get up, ana would not disturb my wife. I haven't got clear, and the noise doesn’t & \ \\W Are wearing Glasses that fit their eyes, and fifteen in every hundredi are wearing Glasses that are positively ruining their sight. in By Thursday, the man whom I now knew to be the scoundrel Alvarez had said, all would be over. It was already Tuesday. Too late to hope for his recovery, perhaps, but I must attempt it.. Yet how? He could bear little excitement in his \ a oe\ fore my eyes! to debate what \ Vi AN i q ice daily—a Spanish tonic, he had told me— and was murdering her own husband beIsat down oe Dr. REED, Dealers in Behning and Conover Bros.’ PIANOS. Matchiess Burdett ORGANS. Siools Covers, Scarfs & Guitars. Pianos Sold on easy terms. dence Correspon- Solicited. Nervous Diseases, eases of the Hye, Tung Diseases, and Urinary Organs. Skin Diseases, DisNose and Throat, Diseases “of ’ the Spectacles and Eye-Classes Fitted to. Order. Special Attention Paid to Fitting Arti- ESTATES. Widows and others having business in the Probate Court, should communicate with Charles W. Stayner, Attorney-atLaw, before commencing business. Office, 3 doors east of Deseret National Bank.. P. O. address Box 587, Salt: Lake City, Utah. ficial Eyes. Lenses Ground to Order. Oculists’ Prescriptions Filled. 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