| Show THE DEAD MANS WILL N 11 by HAROLD CARTER kocopy tight 1910 my wt W 0 41 hammall seton manning found that he had bad not solved the problem of death ba b dying any more than he had bad solved that of lite life by living but after the first shock of the change had passed a away we y he was conscious conaci oua that in certain ways he had acquired increased DO per spec tive particularly lathis la Int this hla that whereas la in earth lite life lie had bad only read the past now lie could read the future also lie tile the shadows cast upon the screed of time as events ripened and destiny prepared itself but since wan man has free will nothing was actually fore destined that could not bo be changed it afforded manning lutte amusement to watch these theae phantom episodes prepare themselves only to scatter before the will of their object naturally mannings first thought wati waa tor for lite his own lie he projected him belt by power of will to the scene of lite ills earthly home lie saw the stately 0 old id house where he be had bad lived so go many years the arbiter of the small email t town own society with his adopted daughter lella leila lie glanced wistfully at the old place and though the remembrance was dim and dreamlike he was conscious of an in intel tentie so longing to bo be back again in the earth life but when he sought nought tor for leila bjella he could not find her anywhere about the old place and there were strange un knoma faces there it was not until he be bad concentrated all hit his will in a supreme effort that he be found leila she was dressed simply in black for manning had been dead only a month and she was seated in a parlor of IL a second laoo boarding house bouse listening to a fussy elderly gentleman who ad dressed her you see bee miss leila the will WAS invalidated by the tact fact that your benefactor wrote of you as aa my daughter the lawyer explained 1 I told mr manning that he would have to draw up another will because the phrase brass was incorrect but he did not do so and consequently the property passed to his brother ill ills br brother otherl the last person on earth whom manning would have wished to inherit the estate he burned with indignation for a spirit retains all the emotions that actuated it in life but lie had been annoyed with leila because she was waa in love with baiden Il a young physician of the village a recent graduate of a medical college lie he had no objection to himself but be was almost a pauper and the peremptory old mao man felt that the young doctor was waa presumptuous in raising his eyes to leila so a bitter quarrel had bad ensued and manning had bad ordered hughes from the house 1 I shall obey you because it is my duty father leila had bad said but I 1 shall never marry anyone but carden the old man had watched her with secret remorse ile he had gone quietly away and made a new will ill leaving everything unconditionally to leila ile he knew that he had bad not long to live and he meant her to marry her over lover ile he had the wilt will witnessed at the little country hotel which he be frequented a bundred miles away in the mountains and be left it in the drawer of an old desk there which ho he used in the astral realm matter to la so BO plastic that there one becomes and ere ateo atea anything one wants to no soon er had bad manning willed leila to dis dl cover the will than the whole sequence of events unrolled before his bis eyes the inn keeper discovered the learned the identity of the signer and hurried into the town to apprize ullas leilas lawyer there followed a bitter quarrel over the valid ity of the will after which leila found herself again in possession of the estate mistress ot of broad acres wealthy she was wag at once made the object of fervent courtship on the part of many young men but it was tom stapleton who won her hand while her lover hughes hughee afraid to put hla his fate to the touch until he had accomplished more in the world stayed away and let leila think he had ceased to care for her so she and tom were mar ried children were born bothem to them the estate growing continually smaller was sold at last to pay toms gambling debts debba in their old age the poor house received leoa lella and tom and their children grow grew up ignorant t ot their parents names that do manning swept the whole cobwebby structure away there must be a better fate for leila left for abr days he haunted her trying to tell her that the will was wao in the desk but each time that bo h got in touch with her mind the scene arosa areas again upon the screen of time and then manning realized that etwas it waa best that leila should never know one evening he projected himself hl into the shabby parlor to discover leila seated boated tote tete a tete with ft a young man garden carden hughes their chairs were drawn up very close and their hands were interlinked you see sea miss leila garden carden was wa saying ayling 1 I do bear a good deal of ill feeling toward mr manning for leaving you to in this predicament and I 1 feel that under the I 1 can ask you to shan bar my ufa life win will you leilla leila dear beart and manning realized the sudden blending of two spirits till still flesh fah bm bom in th kl that followed |
