Show THE LATCH CLICK It was abont dusk Carl and Nora were sitting by I the plowing fly With bright t hippy faces talking of th air prospects Ml hn they distinctly heard tile latch rise J nndfall J > ora turned 1 pals end mink boek 1 In her chair faint and 1 trcmblx l 1 What ails you darling naked Curl I Anxiously I Carl she gasped go to the door I Ka If there It any ono there quid quick quickCrl hafltone to comply Ho searched II o 1 all but there was nothing to bo stenj I and lid 1 rclun ed to LOT bnylug Thee la I nothing there dearest Did It frighten you 1 Lattice ho could finish the Fell team tlio click ot tl o Inlcli wm card I again Nom pmng 10 her let anti with A shriek fell t tbo floor swooning Cnrl noon brought tl o family to film aid nn 1 ex llalnod nil that ho I new of the canto 01 her fainting WhEar 1 10 told of the otrnge clicking of the door tlio father clcl iltncd Ttl emontly What new danger nov harip over my unfortunate housi WbAt liar 1 I done to merit II Tlo old man wept while ISInn and Curl with wlilto fired fncoi attempted to rouse Nora from her dlhllk 01 ind after a time sucn > dcd What I I Jori repented Carl who was greatly niYHIlM at the unaccountable boliailor of Nom nn d 11 hcr father anl 1 IcAnttellyou now Comlomerelv and I will explain Carl I bent and hissed her I end then lie went away I Oh father what do YO think I in cans I Ill do not know but Bomothlngrtreadful I f going t happen have never hOI tire naming without a calamity You will hear It again moaned tl o wretched father You will hone It agnln It was a nileornl night for the father and daughter And morning found thom looking 1 nggard and worn The day iss till and the fatal click wal not boar I again In the eve Ing Carl come Impatient t br 01 the 1 trngo oent Mr Illto began 11 It ban been n legend In our family for tree and ago hat whn a tiny on eeDlotl with us wan going t tile or dome accident happen warning was Invariably given by tire sign which you have I hell My grandfather grand-father heard It and the next day I owns drowned My elder brother was forewarned In tho aamti manner of his approaching did solution In fact from Ume Immmorlol we Imo known of near death by the clickIng click-Ing of the Michs Mr llho such superstitions stories ought not to b credited by an educated gentleman like yourself exclaimed Carl I am not superstitious but thin I know t b true I line I never failed and I nm convinced that Panic terrible peril overshadows over-shadows Nero nnd on her wedding day It will appear We know It and I urn resigned re-signed Cur wan deeply Impressed with tha story I I though be strove t cheer the father and divert his attention from tile painful subject ject Ho had distinctly card tho click null knew that no visible person ball 1 I made I for ho b1 1 himself searel id the premises and found no trace of any one Mr Him nttrlbuto 1 It t supernatural agencies and via q loiltlvo In his I Assertion that BOIIO danger tl nntcned Nora and that tbo warning day would bo fulfilled her wixlcllng dayTbo I The day dawned bright and tbo wedding wed-ding was eelebritod In tho little chapel I The boUt oaten tl o young couple wero ready to rt Friends remarked on I tho paleness I of tile lovely bride but IP posod It was due to exoltrniint They did net knew 01 the Iverm which war rating tier life away or with what terrible ails pound si h wood for tie click which she know would mail Sooner or later II o father stood by with clouded fare for Ills thoughtswero not of the happy socno around him but of the awful worn Ing I to loved his Nora as n father eyes I 4 bid only child and to loa her BO young find laIr wall almost maddening to hira 1 He was convinced that she wa t doomed to nn early death for that click meant nothing ole What inn Jo tho young wife suddenly hlior anti litter a half Suppressed I shriek Alas tint fatal Bound 1 After the first In Voluntary cry she undo no exclamation but stood palo old cat air At last the farewollki works spoken I and tho joung ci uplo were In the train speedIng speed-Ing Carlyll from friends and homo p Cal said Nora the latch clicked bear for tile lit third and faint Wool Did you ot No dear I did let You must hoe 1 ben mistaken at lot 11 of o you wore Cheer up Try and forget this strango affair af-fair I was by your side and If you bo 1 hoard logical tltllo It I certainly I to must bait 1 Icannotfcelcleerful she replied I keeps sounding lu stay Card sell I know flat we shall luelit W fit Kama terrible nib fortune Dent talk so Nora dear nnd dont loop thinking of evil presentiments I havo no faith in thorn Your ancestors might have suppoHod such n thing to bo tbo forerunner of doth but you will bo yr snarod I to me I hope und trust for many Wait said the firm voice it Nora And that ono word uttend In so stern a tones struck a chi to tho husbands 1 tart A el rlek ot thouhlstlu n terrible attack aDd Cart know new Ito more On coming to Ills Planned lie 1 found him Mil on i > cot In n llttl cnbln nnd hond 1 the groans of the suffirers around him 1 Ha Has weal and Ills I arm nchcd violently lie foui d Imsolf 1 unablo to lite 1 Ills flrnt words were 6 lion Nora Is But Nor did not reply and her fore loading ctiiuo to blm 1 vhldly A man nn savored Ills agonized cry byj I Biting Lint 1 up 11 nnd pointing to n small figure lying mo tlonlotts on a couch Tile tam team usliy pale and Hood trickled Town from a wound In her forel end < I Dundl bo cried wildly ns bo fell back unclclouNelv York Now |