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THE 
 
 PROFESSOR'S SISTER 
 
PRISTKD BY 
 
 SrOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STnmST SQUAIiB 
 
 LONDOH 
 
THE SPECTRE 
 OF THE CAMERA 
 
 OR 
 
 THE PROFESSOR'S SISTER 
 
 A ROMANCE 
 
 BY 
 
 JULIAN HAWTHORNE 
 
 LONDON 
 CHATTO & WINDUS 
 
 1915 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTEB page 
 
 I. METAPHYSICS 1 
 
 II. RALPH AND HIS QUEER NOTIONS . . . 16 
 
 III. TWO WOMEN ....... 38 
 
 IV. SCHANDAU 55 
 
 V. THE SPECTRE OP THE CAMERA . . .73 
 
 VI. MR. HERTRUGGE's WILL 89 
 
 VII. burlace's LUCK 104 
 
 VIII. A DRAMATIC TRIUMPH 118 
 
 IX. THE PENTAGON 140 
 
 X. LIFE AND DEATH 155 
 
 XI. LED BY A SPIRIT 169 
 
 XII. TWO MEN 190 
 
 XIII. AN EXPERIMENT 206 
 
 XIV. ON ONE CONDITION 221 
 
 XV. MARRIAGE 237 
 
THE 
 
 SPECTRE OF THE CAMERA. 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 METAPHYSICS. 
 
 '"What is memory, I should like to know?' 
 said Will Burlace, using the end of his broad 
 middle finger as a tobacco-stopper. ' How 
 does it work, Ralph, my boy ? Do we re- 
 member everything in our experience, as some 
 philosophers hold, or does each of us take out 
 of the past only that which belongs to his 
 character and temperament, or are recollection 
 and oblivion a mere lottery, over which we 
 have no control, or—' 
 
 ' And what is the exact difference between 
 
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 memory and imagination ? ' I broke in. ' We 
 say the past has no existence : neither have 
 the conceptions of the imagination. And I 
 have heard of people imagining things until 
 they believed them true.' 
 
 ' Yes, why not ? ' added Burlace, with a 
 grin. ' We are taught that the external world 
 itself is but a prejudice of the mind. There 
 is no reality but thought and will. Our 
 present is a dream ; our past and future are 
 the ghosts of dreams. You cannot make out 
 imagination to be anything less than that. 
 We talk about the creations of poets and 
 novelists, and it is notorious that many of the 
 personages of fiction from Homer to Balzac, 
 live with a vitality that would put to shame 
 Methuselah, or Augustus the Strong. Where 
 shall we draw the line? ' 
 
 ' The senses originate in the brain,' con- 
 tinued I : ' don't they end there as well ? 
 we may admit that we feel sensations, but 
 
METAPHYSICS 3 
 
 how do we know that the feeling and the 
 thing felt are not two visions of the same 
 thing?' 
 
 ' Look at ghosts, spectres, and the super- 
 natural generally,' said Burlace, blowing a 
 cloud of smoke into fantastic shapes and 
 waving his big hand through them. ' What 
 is the difference between a ghost and an 
 ordinary human being ? ' 
 
 ' As a general rule,' said Ralph, who had 
 been sitting meanwhile on his back and 
 shoulders, with his slippered feet broad 
 against the tall porcelain stove which, as 
 everywhere in Germany, dominated the apart- 
 ment, 'as a general rule, the difference be- 
 tween a ghost and an ordinary human being 
 is this : — only one person sees the ghost, 
 whereas the ordinary human being has been, 
 is, or can be seen by whomsoever chooses to 
 look at him. And a similar distinction might 
 be drawn as between the contents qf the 
 
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 memory and those of the imagination. If I 
 tell you an incident of my past life, and you 
 don't believe it, I can adduce living witnesses 
 in support of my statement : but if I tell you 
 a story, or a lie, and you are incredulous, I 
 can only keep on lying.' 
 
 'I would confess and repent, if I were 
 you,' interposed Burlace. 
 
 ' What is that theory of yours about ap- 
 paritions ? ' I inquired. 
 
 ' Oh, it would take me too far back to ex- 
 plain that,' answered Ralph lazily. 
 
 ' It's one the professor told him, and he's 
 forgotten it,' Burlace asserted, winking at me 
 across the table. 
 
 ' The professor is a Buddhist,' said Ralph. 
 1 For my part, I believe neither in re- incarna- 
 tion, Karma, Devachan, Nirvana, nor the 
 Astral light.' 
 
 Burlace grinned again. ' Nor in anything 
 else ! ' 
 
METAPHYSICS 5 
 
 'Yes,' returned Ralph, in the same lazy 
 tone, ' I believe in God, in the Divine inspi- 
 ration of the Bible, in the Incarnation, in the 
 immortality of the soul, and in the possible 
 intercourse between the dead and the living, 
 among other things.' 
 
 ' A nice creed for the prize student of a 
 German university ! But I suppose you are 
 lying, now.' 
 
 ' I am casting my pearls before Burlace, 
 which is perhaps as bad.' 
 
 ' Well, to begin with, what is matter? ' 
 
 ' Matter is the attestation of the constancy 
 of the relation between the Creator and the 
 creature.' 
 
 ' Oh ! and what is nature ? ' 
 
 ' Nature is the analysis of human nature, 
 projected on the sphere of sense by the crea- 
 tive energy.' 
 
 ' If that be the case,' said I, ' why does 
 not the face of nature become modified in 
 
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 correspondence with our growth and develop- 
 ment ? ' 
 
 ' Well,' returned Ralph, ' doesn't it ? ' 
 
 'I haven't noticed it in my own experi- 
 ence,' I replied. 
 
 ' You would, if you were mankind. And 
 even you furnish your room and dig your 
 garden in accordance with your notion of the 
 correct thing. But the great geological and 
 eosmical changes, the variation and extinction 
 of species, alterations of climate, and all 
 matters of that calibre, follow and reflect the 
 development of Humanity with a big H. 
 And, by the way, that's the basis of what you 
 call my theory of apparitions.' 
 
 ' How so ? ' 
 
 ' Oh. don't encourage him ! ' cried Burlace. 
 
 ' You have the visible object on one side,' 
 Ralph said, ' and the brain on the other. The 
 eye is the connecting link. The light reflected 
 from objects reaches the brain through the eye, 
 
METAPHYSICS 7 
 
 and the brain thereupon translates it into ideas 
 of things. Such is the accepted doctrine. 
 But in certain moods of abstraction and con- 
 centration you are hardly conscious of the 
 external world, and the images of the mind 
 assume a corresponding substantiality. If 
 now a disembodied being applies itself strongly 
 to your own spirit, your spiritual organ of 
 sight — which is the eye within the eye — per- 
 ceives it as a — what Burlace calls — ordinary 
 human being.' 
 
 ' Oh, my wig ! ' muttered Burlace. 
 ' But how does your ontological theory — ' 
 ' Why, it's simple enough. We perceive 
 an ordinary human being by virtue of that 
 universal human constitution that we share 
 with the race ; but we perceive an apparition 
 by virtue of a special and finite impression 
 wrought upon us by an unembodied spirit. 
 The action of the organ of vision is the same 
 in the one case as in the other : the appari- 
 
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 tionis, to the person seeing it, as real as an 
 actual man. Yet it is not real, but an illusion, 
 because it is an individual, and not a general 
 experience.' 
 
 ' But an apparition is a spirit ; do you 
 call a spirit an illusion ? ' 
 
 ' An apparition is not a spirit.' 
 
 ' Neither, certainly, is it a physical being.' 
 
 ' No ; it is the reflection upon the sphere 
 of sense of a being who is not physical. It 
 is an illusion in the same way that your 
 reflection in the looking-glass is an illusion — 
 it is nothing in itself, but a reality causes it.' 
 
 ' May I be permitted to offer one sugges- 
 tion in the premises ? ' inquired Burlace. 
 
 ' No,' said Ralph. 
 
 ' Well, here it is. Sense, according to you, 
 only seems to convey messages from without ; 
 in truth it is concerned solely with what pro- 
 ceeds from within, — for the obvious reason 
 that the entire material universe is but the 
 
METAPHYSICS g 
 
 phenomenal externisation of the elements of 
 the human mind — have I got the lingo 
 right?' 
 
 ' Viewing the universe, of course, from 
 the point of view of use, not of form and 
 extension,' supplemented Ralph, closing his 
 eyes. 
 
 'Just as you please about that ! well, 
 now, your apparition is visible to the eye — or 
 to the eye within the eye, if you like that 
 better — say, to the sense of vision. But it is 
 generally admitted that all our senses are but 
 modifications of one sense, to wit, the sense of 
 touch. Are you listening ? ' 
 
 ' No ; because I knew from the start what 
 you were driving at.' 
 
 ' Oh, indeed ! and pray what was it ? * 
 
 ' That an apparition that can be seen, 
 ought, by logical inference, to be also an object 
 of touch, hearing, smell, and taste.' 
 
 ' "Well, and how are you going to wriggle 
 
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 out of that dilemma ? ' demanded Burlace, 
 with a snort. 
 
 ' I am comfortable where I am. I don't 
 perceive your dilemma. I hold your inference 
 to be unimpeachable.' 
 
 ,' Do you mean to say that a ghost can be 
 handled — ' 
 
 'Heard, smelt, and tasted. Certainly, 
 why not ? ' 
 
 ' And yet you call it an illusion ! ' 
 
 ' But with a reality behind it ! ' 
 
 ' I am going home,' said Burlace, getting 
 up from his chair with a grotesque assumption 
 of decrepitude. ' I am a very foolish, fond 
 old man. I don't catch on any longer. I 
 have been getting things wrong end foremost 
 all these years. Matter, it seems, is but' the 
 attestation of the constancy of a relation,- — • 
 therefore I ought to be able to walk through 
 a block of houses, or pass my arm through a 
 girl's waist instead of round it. Apparitions, 
 
METAPHYSICS u 
 
 on the contrary, can be felt and smelt as well 
 as seen, therefore I presume that I have been 
 consorting hitherto with apparitions. In fact, 
 What am Imyself but an apparition — an illusion 
 with a reality behind me ? I have heard of 
 people being made nervous by having a spectre 
 behind them ; but fancy the condition of a 
 poor spectre with a reality behind him ! Let 
 me get away, while reason yet holds her seat 
 in this distracted globe ! ' 
 
 ' And all because I happened to remark 
 that memory is what is meant by the creation 
 of man male and female,' said Ralph, with a 
 sigh. 
 
 ' Imbecility, thy name is metaphysics ! ' 
 muttered Burlace, as he opened the door and 
 closed it behind him with a bang. So Ralph 
 Merlin and I were left alone in front of the tall 
 porcelain stove. 
 
 Those delightful old student days in Dres- 
 den, twenty years ago ! What good times 
 
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 we had ! — not because of what we did, but 
 because we so enjoyed doing it. What did 
 we do, in fact ? we drank beer out of glass 
 schoppen with porcelain covers ; we smoked 
 pipes and Laferme cigarettes ; we attended 
 open-air concerts in the Grosser Garten, the 
 Bruehlsche Terrace, the Waldschlosschen ; we 
 fought schlager duels, and wore high boots, 
 black velveteen jackets, and caps four inches 
 in diameter ; we went to masked balls, where 
 neither we nor anybody else behaved quite 
 properly ; we went to other dances in queer 
 places ; we thought we owned the earth and 
 the fulness thereof; and we talked meta- 
 physics. There is nothing to compare with 
 the zeal with which young men of a certain 
 age and intellectual training will talk meta- 
 physics. They know all that Hegel, Kant, 
 Schopenhauer and Spinoza knew, and demon- 
 strate that these gentlemen did not go nearly 
 far, nor half deep enough, and were much too 
 
METAPHYSICS 13 
 
 lucid and straightforward in all their state- 
 ments. We began where they left off, and 
 stopped nowhere. We dissolved the Uni- 
 verse and created it again each after a recipe 
 ' of his own. As to society — civilisation — I 
 shudder to think how we objurgated and 
 annihilated them. And morality ! Burlace 
 had a thermometer in his room, which he 
 Used to call The Register of Virtue. It was 
 a huge affair, about five feet long, and I 
 believe he had stolen it from the outside of a 
 druggist's shop. Opposite each space of ten 
 degrees he had pasted the photograph of a 
 woman. Between the 30th and 40th degrees 
 she was muffled up from her chin to her toes, 
 and wore a big hood. Between the 40th and 
 50th her hood was off and her pelisse was un- 
 buttoned. Between the 50th and 60th the 
 pelisse had disappeared and you could discern 
 the outlines of her figure* The 70th degree 
 limit showed her in full ball costume, very de- 
 
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 college. At the 80th her costume had shrunk 
 at both ends, and she was now a ballet dancer r 
 very much on one leg. The next interval was 
 difficult to describe ; and the final one re- 
 vealed Eve pure and simple. When, there- 
 fore, the conversation turned upon moral 
 questions, ;Burlace would point to this new 
 Jacob's Ladder and say : ' The whole problem 
 is settled there, gentlemen. I make no 
 comments ; none are needed. Let each man 
 of you select the latitude that suits him best, 
 and be happy. The equator is good enough 
 for me.' 
 
 Burlace was able, obstinate, boisterous ; a 
 scoffer and a sceptic. He had a broad sense of 
 humour, but was apt to become oppressive. 
 His great, strident voice ate up all other 
 sounds, and finally made one's ears indignant. 
 But he would stand by you in trouble, and, 
 after bullying you to your face, take your 
 part behind your back. He and Ralph 
 
METAPHYSICS 15 
 
 Merlin and I were, at that time, the only 
 Americans there ; so we were a good deal 
 together. Ralph and Burlace were generally 
 chaffing each other : I used to take part, 
 sometimes against one, sometimes against the 
 other. But, at bottom, Ealph was my friend. 
 I was often in doubt whether to take him 
 seriously or in jest, but I had an instinct of 
 affection towards him. And I understood 
 better than any of his other companions the 
 moods of his mind and heart. 
 
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 CHAPTER II. 
 
 RALPH AND HIS QUEER NOTIONS. 
 
 Ealph Merlin was, I believe, of Philadel- 
 phia extraction. His family had been wealthy 
 for several generations, and that, in America, 
 means culture and high breeding. Ralph 
 was cf a fine patrician type. His physical 
 organisation was delicate as a watch spring, 
 but strong, healthy, and unweariable. He 
 and Burlace (who weighed just ninety pounds 
 more than Ralph did) had a wrestling match 
 one day. After a while, Ralph got a grip on 
 Burlace somehow, and began slowly to bend 
 him over backwards. It was the power of 
 one backbone against the other. Burlace, 
 who prided himself on his strength, and was 
 
RALPH AND HIS QUEER NOTIONS i? 
 
 always asking us to feel his muscle, tugged 
 and struggled like a bull. His broad visage 
 became red, his throat swelled, and a great 
 purple vein started out in his forehead. He 
 grinned a hideous grin, showing his big teeth 
 set together. All the while he was being 
 forced over, inch by inch. Ralph's face did not 
 show signs of the tremendous exertion he must 
 have been making ; only his eyes, which were 
 fixed on Burlace's, seemed to grow steadily 
 larger and brighter ; and his slender hands 
 gripped those great, brawny muscles of Bur- 
 lace's as a steel vice grips green wood. At 
 last, just as Burlace's eyes rolled up, and he 
 was about to gasp and collapse, Ralph sud- 
 denly loosed his hold and laughed. Burlace 
 sat down on the floor, panting and perspiring. 
 ' You're too big for me,' said Ralph ; and 
 a thin stream of blood ran down his chin. At 
 first I was startled, thinking he had ruptured 
 a blood-vessel ; but he had only bitten 
 
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 through his lower lip. ' Well,' grunted Will 
 Burlace, as soon as he could speak, ' then I 
 thank my stars I'm no smaller, that's all.' 
 
 Ralph had beautiful, arched feet, and there 
 was a just perceptible arch in his nose, too ; 
 thin, wide nostrils, broad, straight eyebrows, 
 black, over gray eyes, black wavy hair, fine 
 white complexion. His upper lip was slender, 
 the lower full, curving under sharply to a 
 round Roman chin. I never saw a more 
 thoroughly masculine face ; and his deep bass 
 voice suited it. 
 
 He had plenty of brains, and managed 
 them well. He had graduated at Yale college 
 when he was but eighteen years old ; after- 
 wards he had spent three years at Cambridge 
 in England, and now he was taking an 
 engineering course in Germany. He might 
 have lived a luxurious club and yacht exist- 
 ence if he had cared to. But he was not con- 
 sented with his inherited possessions ; he 
 
RALPH AND HIS QUEER NOTIONS ig 
 
 wanted a profession too. Whether, having 
 got it, he would ever practise it, was another 
 question ; but there was no doubt about his 
 getting it. He was esteemed the best student 
 of his time. Yet he had not been devoting 
 himself exclusively to his nominal pursuit, by 
 any means. He had interested himself for 
 some years past in esoteric philosophy and 
 religion ; and here in Dresden he had met a 
 man who was already very far advanced on 
 the road Kalph was travelling. 
 
 This was Professor Conrad Hertrugge. 
 The Professor was then about thirty years 
 old, and by no means a general favourite with 
 his classes. He was as sharp and cold as an 
 ice-chisel, in the class-room. There was a 
 strong sarcastic vein in him, which he was 
 apt to use unmercifully ; and to the common 
 run of people he was so curt and unsympa- 
 thetic that they found it impossible to get up 
 any conversation with hiin j and after one or 
 
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 two attempts, they were glad to give him a 
 wide berth. 
 
 He was a pale, meagre man, with reddish 
 hair, a sardonic mouth, and strange green 
 eyes, which sometimes had red sparkles in 
 them. But there was power in his every 
 feature and gesture, — the power of character, 
 knowledge, and purpose. He had also a 
 power of another kind, rarer, and imperfectly 
 understood. Whether the result of organisa- 
 tion, special training, or both, it was certainly 
 an odd and mysterious faculty. There are 
 more names than one for it, but a name is 
 not an explanation. For my part, I have 
 never been sensible of the influence which such 
 persons are undoubtedly able to exercise ; but 
 I have seen Conrad Hertrugge do what I can 
 only describe as taking a man's will and con- 
 sciousness out of him, and putting his own in 
 its place. They would call it, nowadays, in- 
 hibition of the cortical centres of the brain. 
 
RALPH AND HIS QUEER NOTIONS 21 
 
 There is no objection, that I know of, to that 
 way of accounting for it. 
 
 The Professor, on his first meeting with 
 Ralph, seemed to conceive a pronounced aver- 
 sion to him. But in the course of two or 
 three months, this aversion changed to a very 
 intimate friendship. I never knew exactly 
 what caused the change, but I have always 
 surmised that Ralph had on some occa- 
 sion, and in some unobtrusive but effective 
 manner, intimated his incredulity of the Pro- 
 fessor's occult abilities ; and that he had been 
 led, subsequently, to recant his disbelief. 
 There was no doubt that he would have made 
 his recantation freely and frankly, when he 
 was once convinced ; and it was not in human 
 nature, nor even in Conrad Hertrugge, to re- 
 sist Ralph Merlin when he wished to make 
 himself agreeable. At all events, as I say, 
 they became close friends, and were a great 
 deal together ; and since both were, with this 
 
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 exception, inclined to be solitary, their inti- 
 macy was the more conspicuous. What they 
 communed about was of course matter of con- 
 jecture ; but some of the conjectures were well 
 enough to have got the pair of them burned for 
 witches two hundred years ago. 
 
 For my part, I was an old comrade of 
 Ralph's, having known him before he went 
 to England ; and Ealph admitted to me that 
 he and Conrad were investigating certain ob- 
 scure subjects together. He remarked, how- 
 ever, that he did not agree with Conrad as to 
 the general scheme of things, and was in- 
 clined to explain certain phenomena on 
 another basis than his. To other people — 
 to Will Burlace for example — Ralph took 
 pleasure in making enigmatical replies, which 
 might mean anything or nothing, and which 
 left them in doubt whether he were poking 
 fun at them, or were out of his head. But 
 there . was another consideration involved 
 
RALPH AND HIS QUEER NOTIONS 23 
 
 which neither I nor others had yet heard 
 of. 
 
 When Burlace had left us that evening, 
 Ralph and I sat smoking, one on each side of 
 the stove, and for a time kept silence. 
 
 ' Do you know why Burlace keeps coming 
 here ? ' inquired Ealph, at length. He asked 
 the question, not as one seeking information 
 as to the fact, but in order to discover 
 whether my idea accorded with his own. 
 
 ' Well, we are all three Americans, you 
 know,' I said. 
 
 ' Yes. But Burlace wants to have a 
 definite opinion on all subjects. He can't 
 endure uncertainty, and he is still uncertain 
 whether I am a knave or a fool. When he 
 has made up his mind about that, you won't 
 see him here again.' '' 
 
 1 Whether you are a knave or a fool ? ' 
 
 1 In other words, whether I really believe 
 in the mysteries of the soul, or only pretend 
 
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 to do so for ends of my own. In the former 
 case I am a fool, in the latter, a knave. I 
 made some progress to-night in recom- 
 mending to him the latter alternative.' 
 
 ' You imply that he is incapable of be- 
 lieving in the soul himself.' 
 
 ' Yes ; that is one of the points on which 
 his mind is made up.' 
 
 ' Why don't you, or the Professor, convert 
 him?' 
 
 ' He hasn't the temperament, for one 
 thing. He can be useful in his own place 
 and way ; as a mystic, he would be a nuisance 
 to himself and others.' 
 
 'What sort of a mystic would I make ? ' 
 
 ' I have asked myself that question, and 
 so has Conrad.' 
 
 'Well?' 
 
 'Well, to be an initiate, one must have 
 initiative. You are too lazy. You are appre- 
 ciative, and quick of apprehension ; you will 
 
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 listen to all that is told you, understand it, 
 and even believe it, if it accords with your view 
 of the reasonable. But you would stop there. 
 You would never take any action upon the 
 information. By and by. it would fade out 
 of your mind. However much you might 
 be a spiritualist in theory, in practice you 
 will always be a materialist ; and the older 
 you grow, the more will that be the 
 case.' 
 
 ' After all, Ralph, is there anything in it ? 
 Granting occultism all it claims, will it ever 
 produce any effect in this world? Can you 
 get further than to affect the imagination and 
 the nerves ? Supposing you possess the 
 secret of the universe, can you avail yourself 
 of it to benefit or influence practical men? 
 Or do these magical powers (if there be any) 
 afford anything except subjective entertain- 
 ment to the wielders of them, and curiosity 
 and mystification to outsiders ? ' 
 
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 ' You have seen something of what Conrad 
 can do.' 
 
 ' I have seen him put a man to sleep, and 
 then compel him to act out his dreams. But, 
 at most, that will simply enable some men 
 to make cats'-paws of some others. And 
 that has been done, without magic, since the 
 world began.' 
 
 ' Magic means the production of something 
 out of nothing,' replied Ralph : ' and that, of 
 course, is an absurdity, because ex nihilo nihil 
 fit. No man can create anything, because he. 
 has nothing of his own to create it out of. 
 He can produce an illusion, and that is all. 
 The illusion is temporary, often momentary ; 
 and as it seems out of reason, the effect on the 
 mind is also transient. The power of reading 
 and imparting thoughts, without the aid of 
 the senses, and of communicating impressions 
 at a distance, is curious and striking ; but the 
 electric telegraph, in the development it will 
 
RALPH AND HIS QUEER NOTIONS 2? 
 
 presently receive, will accomplish the same 
 results more certainly and regularly. My" 
 belief is that you can allow the adepts all that 
 they claim of control over the forces of Nature, 
 and yet match them, either now or hereafter, 
 with the matter-of-fact resources of science. 
 I have no doubt that science will not only 
 enable us to travel all over this earth, and 
 converse with its inhabitants, while sitting at 
 home in our easy chairs, but to visit planets, 
 and hold intercourse with other varieties of 
 mankind in the same way. But all that, and 
 a great deal more of the same sort, is simply 
 an advanced materialism, in which I am but 
 moderately interested.' 
 
 ' It is intercourse with spirits that attracts 
 you.' 
 
 ' Why should it ? ' 
 
 ' Do you believe, then, that so-called spiri- 
 tual communications are merely the effects of 
 unconscious cerebration and telepathy, and of 
 
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 a sort of electric or magnetic force contained 
 in the human body ? ' 
 
 'Well, I don't know why we should 
 trouble ourselves to invent so many handsome 
 names for a very obvious fact. If you believe 
 you have a soul — a spirit — the rest follows of 
 course. Your spirit is in a certain temporary 
 phase or plane, which we call the material. 
 But it is also in the spiritual world, though 
 not consciously so. And in that world it 
 must necessarily be surrounded by a multitude 
 of spirits most similar in character and genius 
 to itself. But your spirit, owing to your 
 being in a different plane of being, is as im- 
 perceptible to them as they are to you.' 
 
 ' Do you mean that there can be no inter- 
 course ? ' 
 
 ' There is constant and universal uncon- 
 scious intercourse.' 
 
 ' If it be unconscious, how can you assert 
 that it exists ? ' 
 
RALPH AND HIS QUEER NOTIONS 29 
 
 { You may know it by the analogy of ordi- 
 nary human intercourse on this material 
 plane.' 
 
 ' How so ? ' 
 
 'Men are only partly conscious of one 
 another here. I see your body and your 
 house, I hear your words and mark your ac- 
 tions. But what do I know of your nature, 
 your thoughts, your emotions ? I guess at 
 them, from such data as I have, and such 
 inferences as I have skill to draw. But you 
 and I may go through life within arm's reach 
 of each other, and yet never once penetrate 
 beyond the veil of each other's faces — never 
 know each other, as the phrase is. All that 
 each of us secretly feels to be himself is invisi- 
 ble and often unsuspected by the other. But 
 the part of us (and it is the larger and more 
 important part) that is invisible here, is 
 visible in the spiritual world. There, our 
 thoughts and nature — our mental scenery — > 
 
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 appear as things. All that makes us what 
 we are is seen there ; only the personal form 
 that we identify with ourselves is absent — : 
 living in a foreign country. And that spiri- 
 tual domain of ours is continually visited and 
 examined by such spirits as are of similar 
 mould and inclinations with our own. They 
 are of both good and evil quality, for there is 
 good and evil in every man ; and according 
 as we turn ourselves to good or to evil, is the 
 complexion of our spiritual guests dark or 
 light.' 
 
 This theory, which Ralph stated with un- 
 usual gravity and earnestness, struck me as 
 being rather bold, to say the least of it ; and 
 yet I could not deny that it seemed in keeping 
 with what we know of the laws of spiritual 
 harmony and association. I had never before 
 heard Ralph talk in this way. 
 
 ' If there is such a barrier as you suppose 
 between the material and the physical planes,' 
 
R'ALPH AND HIS QUEER NOTIONS Ji 
 
 I said, ' and the intercourse is unconseious on 
 both sides, how do you account for the pheno- 
 mena of spiritualism ? ' 
 
 ' The barrier is broken down from our 
 side,' Ralph answered. 
 
 ' By what means ? ' 
 
 ' If I want you to know a thought that is 
 in my mind, I make certain audible sounds, 
 or draw certain visible signs, which, by 
 common agreement, shall convey that thought 
 to you. Speech is a symbol, by which we 
 bridge over the gulf between the world of the 
 mind and that of the body. In a similar way 
 — -hy a system of symbols — we converse with 
 spirits.' 
 
 'But spirits cannot hear our voices, nor 
 we theirs.' 
 
 ' Symbols are queer things,' returned 
 Ralph ; ' and all spells are symbols. If you 
 hear a spoken word, it arouses the correspond- 
 ing thought in your mind. The things that 
 
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 we do in the flesh produce effects in the 
 spiritual world ; and certain things, done 
 with a certain purpose, draw the spirits that 
 are nearest to us into direct contact with 
 our plane. They are sensible of an attraction 
 — an invitation — and they comply with it. 
 In so doing, they necessarily colour themselves 
 with our personality, and can use only the 
 contents of our memory, though so combining 
 them as to produce effects of novelty and 
 surprise. That is the ground of the " un- 
 conscious cerebration " theory. But what is 
 it that causes the brain to cerebrate un- 
 consciously ? It is not our initiative ; then 
 it must be some other ; and that other can 
 only be the spirit's.' 
 
 ' If you really believe you can communicate 
 with spirits, I can't understand your not feel- 
 ing interested in it.' 
 
 ' The interest is limited to the fact of the 
 communication ; when that has been experi- 
 
RALPH AND HIS QUEER NOTIONS 33 
 
 enced, there is nothing else to come. No 
 spirit can tell us anything that we do not 
 know, or had not the means of knowing, 
 without him. And the society of such spirits 
 as can communicate with us is distinctly 
 detrimental. They are of the lowest and 
 crudest class ; they have not found their 
 place in their own world, and are therefore 
 still lingering about the confines of this, — 
 like stray dogs round the door of a butcher's 
 shop. They will say whatever they think 
 you expect them to say, in order to get into 
 still closer terrestrial relations, and conse- 
 quently they will lie indefinitely. On the 
 other hand, the imagination of ignorant and 
 superstitious people is excited by the idea of 
 communion with the other world, and they 
 conceive all manner of wild and vapid theories, 
 every one of which is promptly confirmed by 
 the equally foolish and unprincipled spirits. 
 Both parties to the dialogue grow worse and 
 
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 worse as time goes on ; so that it's no 
 wonder that the affair generally ends, on our 
 side, with insanity, murder, or suicide. What 
 is there to interest a reasonable person in all 
 that ? ' 
 
 ' But why should not spirits of a higher 
 order come to us sometimes ? Are there no 
 angels to tell us the truths of heaven and 
 teach us divine wisdom and goodness ? ' 
 
 ' There are angels, no doubt,' said Ralph ; 
 'but there is no ground for supposing that 
 they ever come here. Their state must be so 
 entirely different from ours that mutual ap- 
 proach would be impossible. Besides, the 
 only spiritual instruction that is worth any- 
 thing, and whose effects are lasting, must 
 come from our own consciences, and that 
 means that it comes direct from God, who 
 created us and the angels too. No third 
 person can ever mediate between Him and 
 any of His creatures. His aim is not to bully 
 
RALPH AND HIS QUEER NOTIONS 35 
 
 us by signs and wonders, but to induce us to 
 find our own way, and help ourselves. If 
 you act under constraint, it is not you, but 
 your constrainer, who acts.' 
 
 ' Then, if there's nothing worth attention 
 in these things,' said I, ' why do you concern 
 yourself about them at all ? ' 
 
 ' On the contrary, I am just beginning to 
 perceive that there is something worth atten- 
 tion — and very much worth it, too ! Though 
 the spirits can tell us nothing about the next 
 world, it is in our power to find out a great 
 deal about it for ourselves. If Conrad were 
 not so confirmed a Buddhist, we might go far 
 together.' 
 
 ' He doesn't agree with you ? ' 
 
 ' Buddhists are all materialists at bottom ; 
 what they call spirit is but a refined form of 
 matter. His results are sensational, and have 
 a fascination of their own. But I'm afraid 
 they will get him into trouble yet. Life is a 
 
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 great deal simpler, as well as a great deal 
 profounder than he thinks. He could easily 
 do a great deal of harm ; I doubt if he could 
 do much good. He has a fancy that he and I 
 are involved together in some way. I must 
 say I hope he's mistaken. By the way, you 
 haven't seen his step-mother, have you ? ' 
 
 ' I didn't know he had one.' 
 
 ' Well, he has, and she's a very handsome 
 young woman. She can't be over five-and- 
 twenty. Conrad's father was near seventy 
 when he married her, and died six months ago, 
 after a year of felicity — if felicity it was.' 
 
 ' Do she and Conrad get on well to- 
 gether ? ' 
 
 ' I don't believe they do. There is some 
 question of property, I think. Conrad's sister 
 is in the step-mother's way, and — ' 
 
 ' He has a sister, too ? ' 
 
 ' A girl of nineteen or so. I have never seen 
 her — but, by the way, she was to have come 
 
RALPH AND HIS QUEER NOTIONS 37 
 
 home yesterday, and Conrad asked me to come 
 to his house this evening. Let us go and have 
 a look at the young lady — the two young 
 ladies. It is only half-past eight, and we can 
 dress and be there by nine.' 
 
 ' By all means,' said I. And we went. 
 
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 CHAPTER III. 
 
 TWO "WOMEN. 
 
 Professor Conrad Hertrugge occupied a 
 handsome Stage on a street adjoining the 
 public garden. His father had been a mer- 
 chant, and had accumulated a great deal of 
 money. But having begun life poor, and 
 never having had time to amuse himself, he 
 had not acquired the habit of luxury, and his 
 house, until the time of his second marriage, 
 had been as bare as a barn, — so Ralph told 
 me. But his new Avife had changed all that. 
 She was handsome and ambitious, and de- 
 manded a suitable environment. The old man 
 yielded to all her suggestions and paid all the 
 bills. Her taste was ornate, but not very 
 
TWO WOMEN 39 
 
 pure. The great rooms were filled with colour 
 and decoration. Nothing was left untouched. 
 It was a restless, almost intimidating spectacle. 
 The eye roved from one glowing hue and 
 glittering point to another, without repose. 
 It seemed hardly lawful to sit down on these 
 satins and velvets. The polished floor menaced 
 the incautious foot ; the tables were inlaid ; in 
 the midst of it all you kept catching glimpses 
 of your own mortified countenance in plate- 
 glass mirrors. I like comfort and hate this 
 sort of thing, and felt a brutal longing to spit 
 on the floor and put my feet on the buhl and 
 marqueterie. As for fine art, there were clever 
 nude statuettes by French sculptors, and paint- 
 ings of warm Venuses, and I know not what 
 else ; and, in the most conspicuous part of the 
 drawing-room, a really fine full-length portrait 
 of Madame Hertrugge herself. She stood 
 facing you, in the act of removing a voluminous 
 cloak lined with swansdown from her white, 
 
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 superb shoulders. She was represented in 
 full evening dress, — red satin. It was a good 
 likeness : almost too good. It might make a 
 sensitive person blush. 
 
 Madame Hertrugge was white, red, and 
 black. Her skin was white, her cheeks and 
 lips red, her hair, eyes, and eyebrows black. 
 Her mouth was beautifully formed, and firm, 
 with a firm chin. Her eyes were rather full, 
 imperious and ardent. She was overflowing 
 with vitality. The hand which she extended 
 to one in greeting was soft but strong, with 
 long fingers. She was dressed in black, as 
 became her recent widowhood ; but she had 
 not the air of mourning much. She was 
 sensuous, voluptuous, but there was strength 
 behind the voluptuousness. You received 
 from her a powerful impression of sex. Every 
 line of her, every movement, every look was 
 woman. And she made you feel that she 
 valued you just so far as you were man. 
 
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 You might be as nearly Caliban as a man can 
 be, but if you were a man she would consider 
 you. You might court her successfully with 
 a horsewhip, but if she felt the master in you, 
 and were convinced that you were captivated 
 by her, she would accept you. It was ludi- 
 crous to think of the senile old merchant 
 having married such a creature. In fact, 
 marriage, viewed in connection with this 
 woman, seemed an absurdity. There was 
 nothing holy about her, nothing reserved, 
 nothing sacred. I don't mean that she was 
 not lady-like, as the phrase is. She knew the 
 society catechism, and practised it to a nicety, 
 but like a clever actress, rather than by instinct 
 or sympathy. It was obvious that she didn't 
 value respectability and propriety the snap of 
 her white fingers, save as a means to an end, 
 and if she were in the company of one whom 
 she trusted intimately, she would laugh those 
 popular virtues to scorn with her warm, in- 
 
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 solent breath. As it was, all the forms and 
 ceremonies in the world could not disguise 
 her. Her very dress suggested rather than 
 concealed what was beneath it. She was a 
 naked goddess — a pagan goddess — and there 
 was no help for it. She made you realise how 
 powerless our nice institutions are in the pre- 
 sence of a genuine, rank human temperament. 
 And be it observed, that I am here writing 
 of her as a temperament, and nothing more. 
 I knew nothing of her former life and experi- 
 ence. I had no reason to think that her con- 
 duct had ever been less than unexceptionable. 
 But the facts about her were insignificant 
 compared with her latent possibilities. Cir- 
 cumstances might hitherto have been adverse 
 to her development : but opportunity — rosy, 
 golden, audacious opportunity was all she 
 needed. She certainly bore no signs of 
 satiety : she had nothing of the blase air. 
 She was thirsty for life, and she would appre- 
 
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 ciate every draught of it. She was impatient 
 to begin. And, contemplating her abounding, 
 triumphant, delicious well being, it seemed as 
 if she might maintain the high-tide of enjoy- 
 ment until she was a hundred. It really in- 
 clined one to paganism to look at her. What 
 is all this gossip about morality and the con- 
 venances ! I thought of Will Burlace and his 
 thermometer. Here is a woman ; here is 
 human nature as it came torrid from the 
 creative hand. What else in the world can 
 stand a moment's comparison with it ? What 
 a race of cold-blooded pigmies are we become ! 
 Let us eat and drink, and not die, either to- 
 morrow or the day after. I am a temperate 
 man, but she made me feel as if I had suddenly 
 drunk a bottle of fine old Madeira. 
 
 But, as I say, her behaviour was unex- 
 ceptionable. She shook hands with me in 
 the quietest and most undemonstrative way, 
 and asked me politely how I liked Dresden, 
 
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 and whether I expected to make a long stay. 
 Then she turned and spoke briefly to Ralph, 
 and we all sat down on the satin and velvet. 
 She was between Ralph and me ; but I was 
 directly opposite the portrait, and the glance it 
 gave me, whenever I happened to look at it, did 
 not harmonise with the kind of remarks (about 
 the weather, the opera, and so forth) that the 
 original of it was making. On the other 
 hand, although the remarks were out of cha- 
 racter, the tones of the rich, full voice were in 
 keeping ; and I listened to them, while reply- 
 ing to the words. 
 
 ' Where is Conrad ? ' asked Ralph, after a 
 while. 
 
 ' Oh,' she said, ' he's in his study, with 
 Hildegarde. Hildegarde is my daughter, you 
 know,' she added to me ; ' though really there 
 is not such a very great difference between 
 us, in point of years,' and she smiled. ' She 
 and her brother have not met for a long time, 
 
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 and apparently they have a great deal to say 
 to each other. But they will be in in a few 
 minutes.' 
 
 'Miss Hertrugge has been living away 
 from Dresden? ' I said. 
 
 ' She has been educated at a convent,' re- 
 turned the widow. ' She has just completed 
 her course, and will henceforth live with us. 
 She is very charming — I am sure you will 
 like her,' she added, letting her black eyes 
 rest on me. 
 
 Somehow I did not feel complimented. 
 The look was an appraising one. It seemed 
 to say, ' Hildegarde would suit a person of 
 your calibre well enough ; as for me, I must 
 have stronger meat ! ' 
 
 Indeed, I was inclined to agree with her. 
 Merely to contemplate her was stimulus enough 
 for me. I was content to let some more 
 robust nature proceed further. 
 
 ' She will make it less dull for you this 
 
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 spring,' remarked Ralph ; and he added, with 
 the quiet audacity which he occasionally ex- 
 hibited, ' Mourning is a tedious business. 
 One chief reason for wishing to keep some of 
 our friends alive, is the dread of mourning 
 them after they are dead.' 
 
 ' Too much importance is given to the 
 outward show, perhaps,' said Madame Hert- 
 rugge, after a moment. 
 
 'No doubt of it,' said Ralph. 'It is like 
 most other social canons ; the fact that you 
 are expected to comply with it makes you 
 resent it. The way the social law puts its 
 great bullying finger into our most sacred 
 concerns is indecent. Birth, death, marriage, 
 — it is the same in everything. We cannot 
 even experience religion except in public, and 
 with the aid of a batch of priests. The aim 
 of society seems to be to turn its members 
 inside out: and the more it succeeds, the 
 greater hypocrites do we all become.' 
 
TWO WOMEN 4) 
 
 ' That sounds like a paradox, Mr. Merlin,' 
 said our hostess. 
 
 • It is the natural revolt of human nature 
 against force. Society insists on regulating 
 our behaviour by averages ; we demand in- 
 dividual choice. Society being the stronger, 
 we adjust the matter by obeying the letter 
 and rebelling in the spirit. It is our only 
 way of keeping the ownership of our own 
 souls.' 
 
 ' That,' observed I, ' is as much as to ad- 
 vocate hypocrisy.' 
 
 ' Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God, 
 — have you not that proverb ? ' said Madame 
 Hertrugge, taking Ralph's part against me. 
 
 ' Yes, you are right,' she went on, ' we are 
 all something that we try not to appear to be. 
 But I can at least say for myself that I do 
 not enjoy being a hypocrite. It stifles me : I 
 am tempted to throw off the disguise.' She 
 made a gesture with her beautiful arm — a 
 
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 gesture that quickened my pulse a beat or 
 two. Her gestures, like everything about 
 her, were graphic and vividly suggestive. If 
 she were really to throw off the disguise, it 
 would be a memorable sight. 
 
 At this juncture, Conrad came in, with 
 his sister Hildegarde's hand in his. 
 
 The two stood together in the doorway a 
 moment. There was very little family resem- 
 blance between them, except that Hildegarde's 
 hair was tawny. Her eyes, as I judged, were 
 bazel ; they were large and exquisitely ex- 
 pressive. All her features were delicately 
 moulded, and evinced great sensitiveness. 
 Withal, there was a certain abstraction in her 
 manner. It struck me that she would be keenly 
 aware of all that passed before her, yet less 
 through the ordinary channels of perception 
 than by some sixth sense, — some instinctive 
 apprehension. It acted from the depths within 
 her, and penetrated to depths, ordinarily con- 
 
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 cealed, within others. She would note the 
 false tone of a voice, and see through an 
 assumed geniality. If you loved her, she 
 would know it in spite of your best conceal- 
 ments ; if you were hostile, she would feel it 
 through your sultriest complacency. And, as 
 I afterwards found by experience, she often 
 divined the unspoken thought of her interlo- 
 cutor, and would even, at times, inadvertently 
 reply to that, instead of to what had actually 
 been said. 
 
 She was, compared with her step-mother, 
 as spirit to substance, and as light to heat. 
 Her complexion was fair and pure ; her figure 
 was slenderly symmetrical, and charming 
 with unstudied grace. There was something 
 strange about her which, at first, I did not 
 understand ; but at length I came to the con- 
 clusion that it was her almost total lack of 
 self-consciousness. This girl had no egotism. 
 Her observations, her reflections, her thoughts, 
 
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 were of people and things outside herself. 
 This, as is always the case, would give her 
 singular power in emergencies. She would 
 never say, ' What will be the consequence of 
 this or that to me ? ' She would consider 
 only the abstract result. Yet she would 
 reverence noble qualities, and goodness, in 
 herself, not less than in others ; not because 
 they were hers, but precisely because she, in 
 comparison with them, was nothing ; they 
 would not be her goodness and ability, but 
 goodness and ability themselves. These 
 gone, she would be no complying slave, but as 
 stubborn at need as a martyr. You can 
 defeat a person who says, ' I will have it so,' 
 but the world cannot influence one who says, 
 ' Right will have it so.' 
 
 But my observations upon Hildegarde did 
 not proceed so far on this first evening. She 
 bowed to Ralph and to me, with a pleasant, 
 clear look, as her step-mother mentioned our 
 
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 names. In a few minutes, I was conversing 
 with, her and Conrad, while Madame Hert- 
 rugge in another part of the room, was talking 
 to Ralph. But both Ralph and Hildegarde 
 were inattentive, and I saw each of them look 
 at the other once or twice. 
 
 1 Do you remember your own mother ? ' I 
 asked her. 
 
 ' Oh, I can see her,' she replied, turning 
 and lifting her head a little. 
 
 ' Memory, with some people, is almost like 
 vision,' Conrad added quickly. 
 
 ' This is a great change from the convent,' 
 said I. 
 
 ' I like it ! ' she returned, with a simplicity 
 that made me smile. 
 
 ' She and Catalina will be great friends,' 
 remarked Conrad. 
 
 ' Why, do you not wish it, brother ? ' de- 
 manded the girl. 
 
 ' I forgot your eyes ! ' he rejoined with an' 
 
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 odd gleam in his own, and a comical twist of 
 nis sardonic mouth. He certainly had not in- 
 timated that he did not wish it. ' She has 
 more of her mother than of her father,' he 
 said to me. ' My father was almost as ugly 
 as I am, and clever — a good brain. But an 
 ugly man ought to be strong, and there he 
 was lacking. A woman could make a fool of 
 him.' 
 
 While he was speaking, Hildegarde rose, 
 and crossed the room to where Ralph and 
 Catalina Hertrugge were sitting. It was a 
 point-blank interruption of a tete-a-t^te that 
 had seemed to be interesting to at least one of 
 the parties to it. If one has the nerve, or the 
 assurance, to go straight to the point in 
 society, such a one will leave the subtlest 
 schemer far behind. I did not know whether 
 Hildegarde's manoeuvre was more than an 
 accident ; but it evidently disconcerted the 
 other lady. Hildegarde stood looking calmly 
 
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 at Ralph, and not offering to say anything. 
 Catalina, cut short in what she was saying, 
 must have felt annoyed ; but she laughed, 
 and motioned to the other to take a place be- 
 side her on the lounge. Ralph had meanwhile 
 risen and drawn up another chair, and this 
 Hildegarde accepted, replying, at the same 
 time, to something Ralph said to her. In a 
 moment Catalina exclaimed : ' But we are 
 forgetting our tea ! ' and moving to the em- 
 broidered bell-rope, pulled it. Then she saun- 
 tered on, with that undulating movement of 
 the hips which is so beautiful and so rare in 
 women, showing, as it does, perfect suppleness 
 and freedom of the waist and limbs, — she 
 came on, I say, towards Conrad and me, and 
 sank into a seat near us, the train of her dress 
 coiling over her arched feet as she did so. 
 The servant appeared at the door, and she 
 ordered him to bring in the tray. 
 
 1 Are you not afraid to trust Hildegarde 
 
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 with, so handsome a man as Ralph ? ' asked 
 Conrad, with a saturnine grimace. 
 
 ' She will amuse him, and he will benefit 
 her, — he will teach her something,' Catalina 
 replied ; and then, turning to me, ' I shall de- 
 pend on you and him to help me with her ; I 
 want to make a success of her.' 
 
 'And yet they abuse step-mothers,' said 
 Conrad. 
 
 All this was entertaining, and the tea was 
 brought in, and some flagons of Rhine wine 
 also, and we became quietly convivial all 
 round. But it seemed to me that there were 
 forces at work which might breed events that 
 would be something more than entertaining. 
 Two women and one man make mischief; 
 and Conrad appeared likely to take a hand, 
 too. 
 
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 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 SCHANDAU. 
 
 It was several weeks before I saw either Cata- 
 lina or Hildegarde again. It was then May, 
 one of the loveliest months of the year in 
 Dresden. The grass was soft and green, the 
 new leaves made a tender verdure on the 
 trees, and the lilacs were in bloom, and their 
 perfume filled the air with a benediction. 
 The sky was softly blue, enriched with clouds, 
 which are nowhere more beautiful in . form 
 and colour than in the valley of the Elbe. 
 The river itself came swirling and rippling 
 down from amidst the distant hills, overflow- 
 ing with the freshness and fullness of the 
 gracious season, and foaming against the dark 
 
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 piers of the old hog-backed bridge that had 
 stemmed its current for centuries. The pro- 
 prietors of the river baths had begun to 
 construct their platforms and moor them out 
 in the stream ; and a wooden terrace was 
 being built on the bank beneath the walls of 
 the Bellevue Hotel, whereon, during the sum- 
 mer, innumerable beer-drinkers would sit 
 and imbibe the great German liquor in the 
 breezy shadow, with the water eddying and 
 sparkling beneath them. Now, also, the 
 open-air concerts at the Grosser Garten, and 
 at the Waldschlosschen, and other easily acces- 
 sible suburbs, were in full blast, enabling you 
 to hear the best of music at any time for five 
 cents. All the population appeared to be 
 parading about, ceaselessly loquacious and 
 smiling, in fresh bonnets and spring waist- 
 coats. Good old King John, still alive at 
 that epoch, might sometimes be met toddling 
 along the sunny side of the Schloss strasse. 
 
SCHANDAU 57 
 
 with his old queen by his side, and a hench- 
 man or two in attendance ; in the morning 
 you might see Crown Prince Albert, accom- 
 panied by a lady who was too handsome to 
 be royal, cantering down the Hercules Allee, 
 through fretted sun and shadow. It was 
 spring, full of fresh days and sunny hopes. 
 One Saturday we made a party to go up 
 the river to Schandau. This is a charming 
 little village in a narrow winding valley, 
 about twenty-five miles above Dresden. The 
 village, beginning with a hotel at the river 
 bank;, prolongs a line of leaf-embowered villas 
 for some half a mile along the brook side, 
 there ending in another hotel. You take 
 your meals beneath the trees, in the open 
 space in front of the hotel ; a band plays 
 there in the afternoon ; on either side are 
 precipitous cliffs, on whose sides trees miracu- 
 lously cling, and which are ascended by paths 
 zigzagging upward at practicable angles. 
 
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 Schandau is the outpost of Saxon Switzer- 
 land, the loveliest little region in all 
 Germany. 
 
 The party was to include the three Hert- 
 rugges — Conrad, Catalina and Hildegarde, 
 and Ealph, Will Burlace and myself. This 
 was two cavaliers apiece for the ladies, which, 
 considering the excess of women over men in 
 Germany, ought to have been very satisfactory 
 to them. But at the last moment Conrad found 
 it impossible to go. As all our preparations 
 were made, and the day was fine, it was 
 decided to proceed without him. The cause 
 of his defection was a telegram he had received 
 at breakfast from one of the professors at 
 Freiberg, announcing an important meeting 
 to be held that day to consider the case of a 
 certain student, known to Conrad, who had 
 got into trouble. Conrad was at first inclined 
 not to comply with the summons ; but inas- 
 much as the boy's future seemed likely to 
 
SCHANDAU 59 
 
 depend upon his attendance, he finally made 
 up his mind to go. At parting he drew me 
 aside and said : ' I don't feel altogether satis- 
 fied about this thing. The student is one of 
 the steadiest in the school. I cannot under- 
 stand his having behaved in such a manner. 
 Will you do me a favour ? ' 
 
 ' "With pleasure.' 
 
 ' Well — keep the party together as much 
 as possible. I shall feel more at ease if I 
 know the young people are not getting too 
 romantic. You are a man of sense — one can 
 trust you ; but the others — ! ' 
 
 ' There is safety in numbers, professor,' 
 I replied, laughing ; ' and under the cir- 
 cumstances, I do not regard what you say 
 about me as a compliment. However, I will 
 engage to see them all home alive this 
 evening.' 
 
 He rubbed his chin, seemed to meditate 
 for a moment, and finally turned away mut- 
 
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 tering something I did not catch. He took 
 the train one way, and we the other. 
 
 In spite of his absence, we were a very 
 merry party. Burlace gave the guard a thaler 
 to lock the door of our compartment, which 
 was a first-class one. The two ladies estab- 
 lished themselves at the opposite windows, and 
 just as the train started Catalina called to 
 Ralph and asked him to disentangle the lace 
 fringe of her scarf from one of the buttons of 
 the cushion, to which it had somehow become 
 attached. By the time he had accomplished 
 this I had taken my seat opposite Hildegarde, 
 and Burlace was on the other side of her ; so 
 there was nothing left for Ralph but to devote 
 himself to the beautiful widow. But it ap- 
 peared to me that no one was pleased with 
 this arrangement except Catalina, — leaving 
 myself, who would have been contented any- 
 where, out of the question. That is to say, 
 Burlace wanted to be with Catalina, Ralph 
 
SCHANDAU 61 
 
 wanted to be with Hildegarde. and Hildegarde 
 — to put the attitude negatively, as becomes a 
 young unmarried woman — Hildegarde did not 
 exhibit any marked preference for the society 
 of either Will Burlace or myself. As we had 
 a full hour's ride before us, this was, perhaps, 
 unfortunate. But the genius of Ralph was 
 equal to the emergency. He did not, indeed, 
 imitate the sublime example of Hildegarde, 
 on an occasion already described, and simply 
 and without excuse or explanation, change 
 his seat from where he did not to where 
 he did want to be : but at our first stopping 
 place, Pirna, he was suddenly seized with 
 a desire to speak to the guard, and since 
 the station was on Hildegarde's side, he 
 was obliged to come to that side in order to 
 satisfy his desire. What he said to the guard 
 I do not remember : but while he was stand- 
 ing with his head and shoulders out of the 
 window, Burlace took advantage of the oppor- 
 
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 tunity to transfer himself to the place op- 
 posite Catalina, and then Ralph, finding 
 his retreat cut off, was, of course, obliged to 
 sit down by Hildegarde. So now we were 
 all happy except Catalina, — and myself, who, 
 as I have already explained, was the ac- 
 knowledged supernumerary and mere looker- 
 on. In this order we arrived at our destina- 
 tion. 
 
 After being ferried across the river to the 
 Schandau landing, we strolled up the lane by 
 the brook side to the hotel, and ordered our 
 dinner for one o'clock. We took this walk in 
 a group, the promiscuous character of which 
 was almost conspicuously, albeit tacitly, pre- 
 served. But at this point I abandoned for the 
 nonce my r&le of chaperon, and declaring that 
 I must and would have a bath (there are ex- 
 cellent baths in the hotel), I left my four 
 friends to fight it out, or flirt it out, as best 
 they might. They started off to ascend the 
 
SCHANDAU 63 
 
 hill on the left, and were soon lost to sight in 
 the bosky pathway leading thither. 
 
 I entered my bath, congratulating myself 
 on my uninteresting and uninterested character. 
 But though my heart was free, my curiosity 
 and speculative instincts were awake, and I 
 could not help wondering what would come 
 out of this little game at cross-purposes. Too 
 much weight might easily be ascribed to what 
 I had noticed, and yet it was plain that the 
 two ladies both preferred the same man, to wit, 
 my friend Ralph Merlin. I could not blame 
 them for this. Ralph was to poor Burlace as 
 Hyperion to a satyr. But what would be the 
 result of it ? Would Hildegarde be able to 
 hold her own against so redoubtable and potent 
 a beauty as Catalina. If the object of their 
 rivalry had been any other man than Ralph, I 
 should have doubted it. But Ralph, though 
 human enough in all conscience, in spite of 
 his trick of talking metaphysics and mysticism, 
 
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 was not a man to mistake an outside for an 
 inside, still less to prefer the former to the 
 latter ; and, moreover, he did not appear to be 
 merely indifferent between the two women, 
 but had betrayed a certain measure of pre- 
 ference for the strange girl with the hazel eyes. 
 Catalina, then, was in so far at a disadvantage ; 
 nor was her situation improved by the obvious 
 fact that Hildegarde reciprocated Ralph's in- 
 terest. In a matter of love, an unsophisticated 
 maiden may sometimes prove more than a 
 match for even a beautiful woman of the 
 world and a widow. And Hildegarde had 
 traits of character that would have to be taken 
 into consideration by anybody. 
 
 Upon the whole, I was benevolent enough 
 to be sorry that Catalina had not happened to 
 take a fancy to poor Will Burlace. If it were 
 not an ideal match, at any rate it was really 
 preferable to one between her and Ralph. And 
 after all, why should she be in such haste to 
 
SCHANDAU 65 
 
 fall in love with anybody ? Only seven or 
 eight months ago she had a husband. It was 
 true that the deceased Mr. Hertrugge may 
 have won her not solely on his own merits ; 
 but some consideration was due to the poor 
 man's memory. And what would Conrad say 
 to such behaviour ? It was already evident 
 that he was not pleased about something ; 
 though whether it was to the marriage of his 
 step-mother, or that of his sister, that he 
 objected, I do not know. Neither was I aware 
 what power he possessed, if any, to oppose or 
 check the proceedings. But, again, possibly 
 — and I thought it quite possible — Ralph might 
 feel only an assthetic or psychological interest 
 in Hildegarde, in which case a half at least of 
 the Grordian knot would be cut. By this time 
 I had finished my ablutions, and resuming my 
 garments, I sat down in the courtyard to await 
 the return of my friends, and the arrival of 
 dinner. It was not long before I heard voices 
 
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 from the hillside, and among them the sten- 
 torian tones of Burlace, who seemed to be in 
 a complacent mood. I was curious to see in 
 what order the quartette would reappear. 
 When, presently, they hove in sight, it ap- 
 peared that fortune continued to favour Hilde- 
 garde thus far. She and Ralph were together, 
 walking some twenty paces behind Burlace and 
 Catalina. Nevertheless, Catalina was in high 
 spirits — rather unduly high, I fancied. She 
 was laughing and talking with Burlace, and 
 looked positively glorious, with her complexion 
 like white and red roses, and her eyes like black 
 diamonds. I was conscious of a great and 
 disinterested sympathy for her. What a pity 
 that such a woman could not have her own 
 way in everything ! With so much of primal 
 nature in her, she must be more good than 
 bad. There was evil in her, of course, as 
 there is in everybody ; but it would come to 
 the surface only if she were opposed, or in- 
 
SCHANDAU 67 
 
 jured, or disappointed. Why could not fate 
 allow her to enjoy herself in her own way? 
 It is singular how life often seems to provoke 
 people — deliberately hound them — into being 
 worse than they might be. Catalina would 
 be all right if she were let alone. On the 
 other hand, if she were crossed and driven 
 into a corner, she was capable of serious 
 mischief. As for Burlace, he was enchanted ! 
 He belonged to the class of people who are 
 most sanguine at the moment when everyone 
 else perceives their final discomfiture. Ralph 
 and Hildegarde, like Dante and Beatrice, 
 were happy but quiet. 
 
 The dinner was good ; and we had some 
 Marcobrunner that was so inspiring that we 
 were convinced it must be the original drink 
 of immortality, from the famous Fountain of 
 Youth. And yet, what did we want of the 
 wine of youth? It was twenty years ago. I 
 would appreciate it better now. 
 
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 Every once in a while I caught a glance 
 from Catalina's jubilant black eyes. What 
 was in that woman's mind? Sometimes, too, 
 I saw her looking at Hildegarde ; and then 
 her regard became pre-occupied and dreamy ; 
 it made me think of an Eastern empress, 
 calmly watching the agonies of a dying slave. 
 Yet Hildegarde was neither a slave nor 
 moribund. 
 
 Coffee was brought, and we lighted our 
 cigars. The sun had passed its zenith, and 
 was shining up the narrow valley. The band 
 appeared and began to play. But the music 
 was too near and loud ; by common consent 
 we rose, and sauntered down the shadowy 
 path towards the river. On arriving there, 
 Catalina pointed to a steep elevation on our 
 right, covered by some small buildings, and 
 commanding a fine view, and proposed that 
 we should ascend thither. It is nothing to a 
 party of young people to climb a mountain in 
 
SCHANDAU 69 
 
 the evening of a day's outing. Up we went, 
 bending to the arduous path, breathing deep, 
 and rejoicing as height after height was 
 gained. Reaching the breezy summit, we 
 found there a tiny ' Restauration,' with 
 benches and tables in front of it, and intima- 
 tions of cool beer in the background. 
 
 We sat down on the benches, and were 
 waited upon by a neat and comely little 
 maiden, with her flaxen hair braided down 
 her back, after the manner of the Gretchen of 
 romance. I, being otherwise mateless, entered 
 into converse with her, and she made cheer- 
 ful replies to my questions. There was a 
 little dome-shaped structure on the top of a 
 rocky knoll, overlooking even the height on 
 which we sat ; and I asked her what was kept 
 in it. 
 
 ' Oh, that is the camera-obscura,' she said 
 ' Have you never seen one ? ' 
 
 I had ; but camera-obscuras have an 
 
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 abiding fascination for me ; and I wanted to 
 see this one also. Gretchen expressed her will- 
 ingness to do the honours of it ; I laid the 
 matter before the othsrs, but none of them 
 were inspired by my enthusiasm, so I left them, 
 and went up with Gretchen into the mount of 
 vision. It was an excellent camera, and com- 
 manded a vast horizon. After causing the re- 
 gular series of sights to pass across the stage, 
 ending up with our own party still seated at the 
 tables, Gretchen paused and asked me if I 
 were content. 
 
 I crossed her honest little palm'with silver, 
 and requested her permission to remain in the 
 camera by myself for a while ; to which she 
 readily assented, and departed to her other 
 guests and duties. I got hold of the cord that 
 moved the lens, and began to explore the neigh- 
 bourhood at hap-hazard. The silent but living 
 pictures, in the lovely colours of nature, suc- 
 ceeded one another ; the trees waved, the 
 
SCHANDAU 71 
 
 river ran, the little skiffs sailed to and fro 
 upon it ; an interminable freight train slid 
 along the track, with white steam puffing 
 from its engine. Once an eagle sailed 
 leisurely athwart the sky, without a pulsation, 
 of his long dark wings. I turned the glass full 
 upon the sky, which showed lakes and straits 
 of intense azure, between superb masses of 
 cloud, fleecy white and tender gray, like the 
 plumage of a sea-gull. Turning more to the 
 west, I saw there masses thickening and dark- 
 ening, and assuming here and there strange 
 tinges of yellow and green ; and towards the 
 remote horizon there was a whitish blue. A 
 thunderstorm was coming on, and setting in 
 this direction. As the frowning cloud wall 
 drew nearer, I could see lightning wriggling 
 across it. 
 
 The idea of watching a thunderstorm as it 
 painted itself in a camera-obscura pleased me 
 hugely; it combined the realism of nature with 
 
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 the imaginative charm of a theatre. I directed 
 the lens to the little restauration, in order to 
 find out what my friends were doing ; but 
 they had all vanished. Only Catalina's 
 parasol lay upon one of the tables ; and 
 Gretchen stood in the door of the house, 
 glancing at the sky and the landscape. Had 
 the others wandered off somewhere, or were 
 they in the restauration ? I grasped the 
 magic cord, and set off on a voyage of dis- 
 covery. 
 
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 CHAPTER V. 
 
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 The nearer rim of the storm-cloud warnow 
 nearly overhead, and the body of the disturb- 
 ance was but a mile or two distant, sweeping 
 up the valley of the Elbe, and shrouding the 
 lofty cliffs of Koenigstein and Lilienstein in 
 driving rain. I kept the darkest part of the 
 cloud on the centre of my canvas, and watched 
 its swift and majestic approach. The lightning 
 was incessant, and showed blue and red as 
 well as white, and the unintermittent roll and 
 explosions of the thunder filled my ears. If 
 my unfortunate companions had gone out 
 into the woods, they would inevitably be 
 drenched to the skin. 
 
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 I surveyed my immediate surroundings for 
 several minutes without seeing traces of any 
 of them. The elevation to which we had as- 
 cended, following the general conformation of 
 the region, was in the shape of an irregular 
 butte, or table-land bounded on all sides by 
 nearly vertical precipices. These precipices, 
 however, were cleft by deep ravines and gullies, 
 whereby access was gained to the summit ; 
 and the summit itself was only comparatively 
 level — it was, in fact, rough and uneven, with 
 loose boulders resting upon it, and everywhere 
 a thick growth of pines and other trees. Nar- 
 row footpaths wound in and out from one 
 point to another, but there had been no at- 
 tempt to render the surface homogeneous. 
 
 From my high standpoint, I could com- 
 mand this limited space much better than any 
 one below me, and I accordingly passed it 
 carefully and systematically in review, with 
 the assurance that I could not fail to discover 
 
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 my friends sooner or later, if they were any- 
 where upon it. By-and-by I was rewarded 
 by the sight of Catalina and Will Burlace, 
 who were standing together beneath the 
 broad boughs of a pine, looking out at the 
 oncoming storm. 
 
 Presently Catalina turned to Burlace, and 
 seemed to be speaking to him ; he replied ; 
 they glanced up at the boughs above them, 
 and then again out over the valley. I judged 
 that she had offered some suggestion, which 
 they had discussed, and to which Burlace 
 acceded ; for a moment later he nodded his 
 head, left her side, and walked off at a brisk 
 pace in the direction of the restauration. She 
 had doubtless asked him to fetch her an 
 umbrella, or a cloak, to protect her from the 
 rain. 
 
 I followed his course for a few moments, 
 as he alternately appeared and disappeared in 
 the windings of the path, and beneath the 
 
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 overhanging branches of the trees. It struck 
 me that he was taking the wrong path, but I 
 was unable to apprise him of his error. I 
 returned to the spot where he had left Cata- 
 lina ; but to my surprise, she was no longer 
 there. Had she left the tree for some more 
 effective shelter from the imminent downpour, 
 or for another reason? It suddenly struck 
 me that the errand on which she had des- 
 patched Burlace might merely be another of 
 her expedients to get rid of him ; and as soon 
 as he was out of sight she had transferred 
 herself elsewhere. 
 
 But this could only be a piece of wanton 
 mischief on her part, or it might even be co- 
 quetry ; for she had nothing to gain now by 
 hiding herself from him, except the certainty 
 of getting wet. It was not as if she were 
 plotting to exchange Burlace for Ralph, for 
 Ralph was not there. By the way, where was 
 he? and Hildegarde? she must be with him. 
 
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 All this time the gloom of the great over- 
 whelming cloud was deepening, and the savage 
 flashes of lightning made the intervals between 
 seem darker ; and the thunder was uninter- 
 rupted, booming and crashing and leaping in 
 heavy echoes from peak to peak of the hills, 
 as if giants were flinging vast boulders at one 
 another. The appearance of the surface of 
 the cloud overhead was awful and bewilder- 
 ing ; it boiled and eddied like an aerial 
 maelstrom ; it was iridescent with lurid 
 tints, and pieces of vapour were ever and anon 
 torn off from the main mass and snatched and 
 twisted about this way and that in the fury 
 of the upper whirlwind. It was a terrifying 
 spectacle ; such a storm as this I had never 
 seen in Germany, and at so early a period of 
 the year it was unprecedented. I began to 
 fear that Ealph and Hildegarde and the 
 others might be exposed to a real danger. 
 
 ' Just then a turn of the glass brought 
 
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 Ralph into view. He was hurrying across 
 the rough ground and through the wood, not 
 attempting to keep the path, but making a 
 straight line for the restauration. He was 
 alone, and I could only suppose that he, like 
 Burlace, had started to procure some means 
 of protection for Hildegarde, whom he had 
 probably left in some place of comparative 
 shelter. The first breath of the gale had now 
 reached the butte, but as yet not a drop of 
 rain had fallen. 
 
 All at once, Catalina stepped out from be- 
 hind a rock, directly in Ralph's path, so that he 
 almost ran against her. He halted suddenly; 
 and then I witnessed a remarkable scene, 
 
 A dazzling flash of lightning glared out, 
 and simultaneously with it came an appalling 
 crash of thunder. I saw Catalina, as if be- 
 side herself with terror or excitement, throw 
 herself upon Ralph, and fling her arms round 
 him. 
 
THE SPECTRE OF THE CAMERA 79 
 
 Ralph was apparently as much surprised 
 at this as I was. But he instinetively put 
 his hands on her shoulders, and for several 
 moments she clung to him, with her face 
 against his breast. The gloom had closed 
 round them, but in another breath it was lit 
 up again, and she was looking up in his face, 
 and speaking passionately. He drew back a 
 little, but again she clung to him ; all the 
 strength and fire of her nature were put 
 forth ; who can tell what she said or inti- 
 mated ? The mere distant reflection of the 
 scene, from which I could not turn away my 
 eyes, revealed and concealed in quick and 
 irregular alternation by the electric flashes, 
 made my nerves thrill and my pulses beat. 
 Beyond a doubt this magnificent creature was 
 offering herself to Ralph ; could any man 
 withstand the intoxicating onset of such a 
 spirit and passion as hers ? And to all was 
 added the excitement and hurly-burly of the 
 
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 great storm, as if the elements themselves 
 took part in the tumult of her heart and 
 brain. 
 
 It seemed to me that Ralph wavered for a 
 moment. He would not have been human 
 had he remained unmoved and in command of 
 himself. To hear such love so told ; to feel 
 her alive in his arms and pressed against him : 
 to see that beautiful face so close to his that 
 her lips spoke almost against his lips, and her 
 eyes wet with wild tears and ardent with the 
 flame of her desire looked into his own, — in 
 such a situation virtue dissolves like snow in 
 fire. Ralph bent his head towards her ; for 
 an instant darkness closed them in ; and what 
 took place in that instant I know not. But 
 alas for Ralph, and for her ! 
 
 The revulsions of feeling in such cases are 
 as rapid as they are intense. I knew that 
 Ralph did not love her, and that he had 
 yielded to a passionate impulse only. And 
 
THE SPECTRE OF THE CAMERA 8l 
 
 having yielded, at such a white heat of emo- 
 tion, the recoil would be inevitable and abso- 
 lute. When I looked again he had unclasped 
 her arms, and drawn back from her a step ; 
 they faced each other so, and he was speaking. 
 As he spoke, at first she heard him defiantly 
 and wrathfully, standing erect at her full 
 height, with her head poised like a serpent's, 
 about to strike. Then some word of his hit 
 her hard ; she winced and her head fell ; she 
 half-raised her hands and shrunk as if to 
 avoid a blow. And then her arms dropped 
 listlessly to her sides, and the pose of her 
 figure expressed the apathy of despair. She 
 attempted no reply ; she did not lift her face ; 
 and when he left her and passed on, she did 
 not turn to look after him. 
 
 Evidently, then, he had smitten hard ; and 
 few men could smite harder than he. And 
 he had killed something in her. Perhaps it 
 was pride ; perhaps it was something better 
 
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 than pride. We are always wrong when we 
 judge our fellow-creatures, and we are wicked 
 when we condemn them and shame them, no 
 matter for what cause. Possibly Kalph 
 would have been less cruel had he not known 
 in his heart that he too was accountant for a 
 sin. 
 
 After Ralph was gone, Catalina moved, 
 drew her shoulders together as if she felt cold, 
 and passed her hands over her eyes. She took 
 a step or two forward, and paused ; walked a 
 few paces in another direction, and paused 
 again. She seemed hardly to realise where 
 she was, or what she was doing. But pre- 
 sently a change came over her ; some definite 
 purpose had entered into her mind, and she 
 had immediately become intent upon it, to 
 the exclusion of all other ideas. At first I 
 could not imagine what it was ; but her 
 course was taking her directly to one of the 
 most headlong precipices, which plunged 
 
THE' SPECTRE OF THE CAMERA 83 
 
 sheer downwards, five hundred feet without a 
 break, to a chaos of tumbled rocks beneath. 
 "What should a desperate woman, whose love 
 had just been thrust back on her with con- 
 tumely, seek on the edge of a precipice ? The 
 answer was terribly obvious. I was about to 
 witness the suicide of Catalina, without being 
 able to do anything to avert it. I was power- 
 less as a man in a dream. She was in one 
 world, and I in another, with no possibility 
 of intercommunication ; and yet we were 
 perhaps not more than three hundred yards 
 distant from each other. 
 
 She was now within twenty paces of the 
 end. A sloping terrace, some ten feet in 
 height, descended to the rocky brink. At the 
 top of the terrace grew two or three small 
 evergreens, and just on the crest of the de- 
 clivity was balanced a small boulder, about 
 as big as a mammoth pumpkin. 
 
 When Catalina reached this terrace, she 
 
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84 THE SPECTRE OF THE CAMERA 
 
 stopped short, with a start, and then drew 
 back behind the shelter of the evergreens. 
 Here she crouched down and gazed ; and I 
 gazed , too. 
 
 On the very brink of the abyss, where the 
 downward slope of the terrace ended, stood 
 Hildegarde. She stood looking outward to- 
 wards the storm, which filled the vast gulf 
 before her. She was absorbed in the spectacle. 
 She held herself proudly and exultingly, like 
 some divinity of earth and air ; the fighting 
 wind had loosened the fastenings of her tawny 
 hair, and it streamed out behind her with a 
 movement like leaping flame, and her gar- 
 ments fluttered like a rent sail wrapped on a 
 slender mast. She raised her arms, as if to 
 rise on wings and stem the gale. 
 
 Her position was one of imminent peril. 
 A step forward — a loss of balance — and she 
 would have been lost. But she was mani- 
 festly unconscious of danger, or indifferent to 
 
THE SPECTRE OF THE CAMERA 85 
 
 it. Her nerves were not shaken : her heart 
 beat strong and full : her reserved and silent 
 nature was awake and rejoicing. It needs 
 planetary influence to arouse some souls, while 
 Others expand themselves at the bubbling of 
 a tea-kettle. In spite of her logical danger, 
 Hildegarde was safe. I wondered whether 
 the storm alone was answerable for her ex- 
 altation, or whether Ralph also had been con- 
 cerned in it. 
 
 Did the same thought come to Catalina at 
 that moment ? As I turned my eyes on her, 
 I saw that she had emerged from behind the 
 evergreens, and was creeping towards the small 
 boulder that was poised above the slope. All 
 the while her gaze was fixed intently on 
 Hildegarde, as a panther watches a fawn upon 
 which it prepares to spring. Catalina reached 
 the boulder, and laid her hands upon it. 
 
 Then I comprehended what was about to 
 happen. A vigorous push, such as Catalina 
 
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 was fully able to give it, would send the boul- 
 der bounding down tlie terrace. Hildegarde 
 stood exactly in its path over the precipice. 
 It would strike her, and sweep her down to 
 destruction. Catalina had changed her pur- 
 pose from suicide to murder. Ealph had 
 crushed her pride and scouted her love. She 
 would see to it that Hildegarde did not enjoy 
 his love either. 
 
 As I saw the wretched woman press 
 against the stone, I involuntarily shouted out 
 to warn Hildegarde of her fate. I might as 
 well have appealed to the stars. My voice 
 came impotently back to me from the black 
 sides of the camera ; and even had I been 
 as near her as was her intending murderess, 
 the reverberations of the thunder and the 
 roar of the wind would have out-shouted my 
 words. 
 
 The stone stirred and trembled on its fall. 
 But before it could descend, a figure appeared 
 
THE SPECTRE OF' THE CAMERA 87 
 
 on the very verge of the gulf. It almost 
 seemed as if it must be standing on the empty 
 air ; it was on a level with Hildegarde, and a 
 pace or two to her left. How it had come 
 there was more than I could conceive ; an in- 
 stant before, a glare of lightning had shown 
 the place vacant ; the next flash had, as it were, 
 brought him there — for the figure was that of 
 a man, and of one whom I immediately recog- 
 nised. Its appearance and what followed 
 thereupon, all passed in the fraction of a 
 minute ; but it seemed to me that the new- 
 comer was more clearly visible than either 
 Catalina or Hildegarde ; the effigy cast by the 
 lens had a kind of luminous quality in it, as if 
 it had absorbed some of the electric light which 
 charged the atmosphere. The figure extended 
 his left hand towards Hildegarde, and beck- 
 oned to her with an urgent gesture. She, too, 
 evidently recognised him ; but manifested 
 little or no surprise at his presence. 
 
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 The stone plunged downward ; but before 
 it could reach Hildegarde, she bad quietly 
 stepped a pace to the left, and it flew past her 
 harmlessly. I saw Catalina throw up her 
 hands and stagger back, with an aspect of 
 terror ; but when I looked again for the appa- 
 rition of Conrad Hertrugge, it had vanished. 
 
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 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 ME. HERTRUGGE's "WILL. 
 
 Simultaneously with this strange event, the 
 rain, which had held off so long, rushed 
 down in a gray sheet, and blotted out every- 
 thing. It rattled upon the roof of the 
 camera with a noise like the beating of innu- 
 merable kettle-drums. But I had seen 
 enough ; the spell that had kept me there 
 was broken ; I found the door and came 
 forth. The rain struck me like a shower- 
 bath, and I was soaked through before I 
 could descend the knoll to the level. The 
 first thing I saw was Ralph and Burlace 
 running off through the trees with waterproof 
 blankets in their arms. 
 
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 I had no wish to follow them. I did not 
 doubt that they would find Catalina and Hil- 
 degarde, and bring them safely back. I 
 walked across to the restauration. Gretchen 
 met me in the doorway with exclamations of 
 concern and compassion. The Herr was so 
 wet ! The Herr would catch cold ! Every- 
 body would catch cold ! Never was such a 
 storm known. What was to be done ? Oh 
 weh ! Oh weh ! 
 
 I followed her into the kitchen, where I 
 took off my coat and waistcoat and sat down 
 before the cooking-stove. Gretchen trotted 
 here and there, getting out dry wraps for the 
 ladies, when they should return. I could 
 think of but one thing — the appearance of 
 Conrad on the cliff. By no means could I 
 imagine how he could have got there. I had 
 seen him depart in the train for Freidberg. 
 It was an hour's journey from Dresden 
 thither. The first train back to Dresden did 
 
MR. HERTRUGGE'S WILL 91 
 
 not leave Freidberg until half-past one in the 
 afternoon. Supposing him to have taken it — 
 which in itself was most unlikely — he would 
 have reached Dresden at half-past two. The 
 first train after that, from Dresden to 
 Schandau, started at half-past three, arriving 
 at half-past four. I looked at my watch ; it 
 was now twenty minutes to five. Granting 
 that he had been on that train, it would have 
 been impossible for him to have been ferried 
 across the river and to have ascended the hill 
 in less than twenty minutes ; and five minutes 
 had already passed since I saw him. Ac- 
 cording to my reckoning then, the event fell 
 at least fifteen minutes short of being a 
 physical possibility. The only way out of 
 the mystery was to suppose that Conrad had 
 chartered an engine specially to convey him 
 hither. But to charter an engine is by no 
 means so simple an affair in Germany as it is 
 in America. Moreover, what conceivable 
 
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 motive could have induced Conrad to take 
 such a step ? He could not have foreseen 
 that his sister was to undergo any peril. 
 
 Apart from all this, however, the condi- 
 tions under which I saw the figure were inex- 
 plicable. The peculiar luminousness and dis- 
 tinctness which characterised it ; the position 
 in which it stood, apparently on nothing ; and 
 the circumstances which I now recalled, that 
 its garments, in the midst of a gale that was 
 bending the pine trees like grass, hung down 
 unmoved, as if in an atmosphere completely 
 calm ; all these things combined to fortify the 
 mystery. I should have put down the appear- 
 ance as an hallucination, due either to the dis- 
 turbed state of the air, or of my own mind at 
 the time ; but it had evidently been seen also 
 by both Hildegarde and Catalina ; the former 
 had obeyed its gesture to move to one side, 
 and the latter had been overcome with fear. 
 Besides, the figure had not appeared to me 
 
MR. HERTRUGGE'S WILL 93 
 
 directly, but through the medium of the lens 
 of the camera ; and I had never heard of an 
 hallucination presenting itself in that manner. 
 
 My meditations had reached this unsatis- 
 factory conclusion when I heard voices and 
 steps, and turning, I saw my four friends 
 entering the kitchen, convoyed by Gretchen. 
 The rain, meanwhile, had ceased, having been 
 as brief as it was violent ; the heavy clouds 
 were breaking away in the west, and the roll of 
 the thunder sounded like the cannon of some 
 great battle far to the north and east. Cata- 
 lina and Burlace came first, laughing and talk- 
 ing ; then Hildegarde, whose face had un- 
 usual colour and animation, and finally Ralph, 
 whose straight black eyebrows lowered over 
 his eyes. He was the only one of the four 
 who seemed to be out of spirits.' 
 
 ' At last I have had my wish,' exclaimed 
 Catalina, throwing off her blanket. ' I have 
 always wanted, to be out in a thunderstorm 
 
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 without an umbrella, and now I have done it. 
 Nothing could be more refreshing ! ' 
 
 ' But what about dying of pneumonia ? ' 
 said I. 
 
 ' Dying ! I am not going to die, Monsieur. 
 I am going to live and be happy ? I am 
 already younger than I was this morning. I 
 have bathed in electricity as well as in rain- 
 water.' 
 
 'And yet you would commit suicide ?' 
 said I. 
 
 She became pale in a moment, and gazed 
 at me with a sort of stealthy consternation. 
 Her lips parted, but she did not speak. 
 
 'It is nothing less than suicide,' I con- 
 tinued, ' to think of going home in those wet 
 clothes. You are on the brink of a precipice. 
 Draw back ! ' 
 
 ' What an old raven you are ! ' put in 
 Burlace, with his rough voice. ' You are 
 always for plaguing folks ! Madame Hert- 
 
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 rugge is all right. She is dressed in woollen, 
 and the rain won't hurt her. Still, madame, 
 if you would like to put on one of G-retchen's 
 gowns while your things are drying ' 
 
 ' No, not I ! ' she replied, taking breath and 
 recovering her self-possession. ' Besides, we 
 must take the train in half an hour.' 
 
 ' I have a better plan than that,' remarked 
 Ealph. ' The steamboat starts in half an hour 
 too, and you and Miss Hildegarde can have a 
 stateroom on that. You can go to bed during 
 the run home, and by the time you get there 
 your things will be dry.' 
 
 ' Oh, to be sure, Hildegarde is delicate ! ' 
 returned Catalina, with a touch of mockery in 
 her voice ; ' you are quite right to consider her, 
 Mr. Merlin.' 
 
 ' I wish I had a horse here, I would like to 
 ride,' said Hildegarde. 
 
 ' Twenty-five miles on horseback would be 
 a little too much, after to-day,' replied Ealph, 
 
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 looking at her with undisguised tenderness ; 
 ' we are answerable to Conrad for you.' 
 
 ' By the way,' said I, glancing carelessly at 
 Catalina, ' have any of you seen Conrad this 
 afternoon?' 
 
 Catalina started perceptibly, and again the 
 colour left her face. She dropped her eyes, 
 and the hand which she put up to smooth 
 back her hair trembled. 
 
 ' I believe you've got a chill in spite of 
 your woollens, Madame Hertrugge,' said 
 Burlace. ' The boat will be the best thing 
 after all. What's that you say — saw Conrad ? 
 he added, staring at me with a grin of amaze- 
 ment. ' There's nobody here that I know of 
 can see from this to Freiberg. What are you 
 thinking of ? ' 
 
 ' Well,' I said, ' he may have been here in 
 spirit, at any rate. If we are going to take 
 that steamer I think we had better be getting 
 off.' 
 
MR. HERTRUGGE'S WILL 97 
 
 We all rose and made ready to go. Hilde- 
 garde came up to me as I stood a little 
 apart from the others, and looked at me 
 anxiously. 
 
 ' Can you see spirits ? ' she asked, in a low 
 voice. 
 
 ' Ralph and I were debating the other day 
 whether spirits could be seen,' I replied. ' I 
 believe he argued that they could not. What 
 is your opinion ? ' 
 
 ' Spirits . . . perhaps not,' she said slowly. 
 ' But I fancied you might mean . . . however, 
 it is no matter.' 
 
 ' The ancients used to believe in tutelary 
 spirits, or something of that kind, whose office 
 it was to warn them of danger, and advise 
 them. I should not be surprised if some 
 being of that order watched over you — some 
 aerial Conrad, you know, who filled his place 
 when he was absent.' 
 
 Her eyes became very penetrating, and 
 
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 she was about to reply, when Ralph came up 
 to her and took her arm under his with an air 
 of ownership that meant something. Burlace 
 had Catalina ; I brought up the rear. Matters 
 were plainly coming to a head ; but I felt by 
 no means prepared to guarantee that the head 
 would be an altogether peaceable and agree- 
 able one. 
 
 We arrived at the wharf at the same time 
 as the steamboat, and started on our down- 
 ward journey, which would last until long 
 after dark. We succeeded in procuring rooms 
 for the ladies, and they disappeared. Burlace 
 went off to drink a glass of Schnapps in the 
 cabin ; and Ralph and I obtained permission 
 to sit and smoke in the engine-room, where 
 the heat from the furnace made us steam like 
 a laundry. 
 
 ' I wish we had stayed at home,' I remarked, 
 after a period of silence. 
 
 ' There is no day of my life that I would 
 
MR. HERTRUGGE'S WILL 99 
 
 be willing to substitute for this,' Ralph re- 
 turned, emphatically. 
 
 ' Wait until you hear what Conrad has to 
 say about it,' was my answer. 
 
 He smiled and said : ' You think yourself 
 a good guesser.' 
 
 ' I suppose you have already obtained 
 Madame Hertrugge's consent ? ' said I. 
 
 ' Oh, I don't care to make a secret of it,' 
 he returned, leaning his head on his hand and 
 fixing his grey eyes on me. ' I have reason 
 to believe that I shall marry the loveliest 
 woman in the world. At the same time, there 
 is no need to make it a matter of common 
 talk, until the preliminaries are settled.' 
 
 ' And until her year of widowhood has 
 expired.' 
 
 'Her year of widowhood! What the 
 mischief do you mean ? ' 
 
 ' Madame Hertrugge's husband died less 
 than a year ago.'* 
 
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 He gave me a keen look. ' What is your 
 motive in suggesting that I contemplate marry- 
 ing Madame Hertrugge ? ' 
 
 ' Why not ? Do you mean to say that 
 you have never done or said anything to lead 
 her to think that she was not indifferent to 
 you?' 
 
 He hesitated, and his eyes darkened. 
 'You have no right to ask the question,' he 
 replied at length ; ' and I would be justified 
 in parrying it. But I prefer to admit that 
 there has been a moment in my intercourse 
 with her which I wish could be wiped off the 
 record. As to marrying her, there never was 
 any question of that. She can't marry.' 
 
 ' Why can't she ? ' 
 
 ' On account of a clause in her husband's 
 will.' 
 
 ' Oh ! He forbids her to marry under cer- 
 tain penalties ? ' 
 
 ' If she marries while Hildegarde is still un- 
 
MR. HERTRUGGE'S WILL 101 
 
 married, she forfeits the enjoyment of the late 
 Mr. Hertrugge's fortune.' 
 
 Here was a whimsical complication, 
 Catalina could not marry until Hildegarde 
 was married. But since it was Ealph that 
 Catalina desired to marry, and since, when 
 Hildegarde was married, it would be to Ralph, 
 it was evident that Catalina would never marry 
 at all. 
 
 ' Love may be secondary to money in her 
 estimation,' I said. 
 
 'You must ask her about that yourself. 
 The will also allows her to marry in the event 
 of Hildegarde's death.' 
 
 ' Mr. Hertrugge was a donkey,' said I. 
 
 I was half minded to tell Ralph what I 
 had seen that afternoon. Many and many a 
 time since have I regretted that I did not. 
 But he had shown himself so restive under 
 my questions that I was reluctant to meddle 
 any further; besides, had not Hildegarde 
 
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 undergone her peril and escaped ? But what 
 a sinister light this news threw upon Catalina. 
 It was hardly doing her an injustice to say 
 that probably nothing would induce her to 
 give up her fortune ; she had married an old 
 tradesman of seventy to obtain it ; and she 
 was of a temperament that needs wealth as 
 much as other people need air and water. 
 And yet she had offered herself to Ralph. 
 Nor was that the worst. Her attempt to 
 murder Hildegarde no longer appeared as 
 simply the wild revenge of a jealous woman. 
 That fool, her late husband, had deliberately 
 put a premium on his daughter's death ; and 
 Catalina, in removing her, would have com- 
 bined with her revenge a shrewd stroke of 
 business. 
 
 ' Shall you remain here after your mar- 
 riage ? ' I asked presently. 
 
 ' I shall go back to America.' 
 
 'Well,' I said, 'I wish you joy with all 
 
MR. HERTRUCGE'S WILL 103 
 
 my heart, and I think the sooner you are 
 married and off the better.' 
 
 ' Thank you,' said Ralph. ' And now, if 
 you are dry, suppose "we go up on deck ' 
 
 It was a lovely evening Nothing of im- 
 portance happened during our journey. Cata- 
 lina and Hildegarde made their appearance 
 just before our arrival at Dresden; and the 
 first person we saw on the wharf was Conrad, 
 in flesh and blood. 
 
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 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 burlacb's luck. 
 
 A few days later, as I was sitting in my 
 room, with the implements of my work 
 around me, — a sheet of drawing-paper 
 stretched on a board, a saucer of Indian ink, 
 a box of drawing instruments, and a set of 
 calculations for the construction of toothed 
 wheel gear, — with these, and a volume of 
 Heine's ' Reisebilder ' (which I happened to 
 be studying at that moment, in order to 
 familiarise myself with the language), — there 
 came a loud knock at my door. People stamp 
 their characters upon everything that they 
 do ; and there was a freedom, a self-opinion- 
 ativeness, and a lack of consideration for the 
 
BURLACE'S LUCK 105 
 
 feelings of others about this knock, that at 
 once informed me who was outside. I closed 
 the volume of Heine, put it under a pile of 
 drawings, took up my drawing-pen, dipped it 
 in the Indian ink, and said : 
 
 ' Come in, Burlace.' 
 
 He had already turned the latch, and now, 
 he bounded in, with his big boots, his small 
 cap, his pipe, and his noisy voice. 
 
 ' Sit down,' I said, in a preoccupied voice. 
 
 ' Don't hurry, old man.' he returned, 
 cheerfully ; ' I've got the afternoon free.' 
 
 ' Lucky fellow ! ' said I, with a sigh. 
 ' Now, I've got work enough on hand to 
 occupy me for a week.' 
 
 ' In that case,' he answered, ' you may as 
 well call a halt right here. You work too 
 hard, anyway. I believe, if it wasn't for me, 
 you and Ralph would both of you get your 
 brains addled. I never come in but I find 
 you grinding away as if you were on the 
 
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 track of the Philosopher's Stone. You 
 make a big mistake. I go in for independent 
 thinking. A book is only a man's opinion, 
 after all ; and one man's opinion is as good 
 as another's, and sometimes a little better ! ' 
 
 ' What have you been thinking about 
 lately ? ' I inquired, putting down my 
 pen. 
 
 'I've been wondering, for one thing, what 
 you and Ralph find to admire in that fellow 
 Conrad. I consider him a beast.' 
 
 ' And his step-mother, too ? ' 
 
 ' If it's all the same to you,' said Burlace, 
 gruffly, ' I would thank you not to insinuate 
 anything against Madame Hertrugge. She 
 is without exception the finest and most in- 
 telligent woman I ever met.' 
 
 ' Intelligent, is she ? " 
 
 '"Well, rather. Why, look here! I am 
 working a good deal just now in the direction 
 of investigating the origin of diseases, with a 
 
BURLACE'S LUCK 107 
 
 view to developing the theory of prevention 
 by inoculation. It will be proved, some day, 
 that contagious and epidemic fevers, cholera, 
 and a lot more of the scourges, are the work 
 of microscopic germs in the atmosphere and 
 in water. But the entire subject is at present 
 in a very obscure condition, and some of the 
 best men we have, who ought to keep their 
 minds open, you'd think, are still too timid 
 and bigoted to take it up.' 
 
 ' What has that to do with Madame Her- 
 trugge's intelligence ? ' 
 
 'It has just this to do with it : that I 
 happened to mention the subject to her the 
 other day, and she was interested in it at once. 
 She asked me questions that would have done 
 credit to an expert ; she saw the point of all 
 my explanations at half a glance .; and when 
 I told her some of the results of microscopic 
 investigation, she made me promise that I 
 would let her have a look at the things 
 
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 herself. If you don't call that intelligence, 
 I'd like to know what you do call it ! ' 
 
 ' I might find another name for it, per- 
 haps,' said I. 'At any rate, I might suggest 
 a predisposing cause.' 
 
 ' What do you mean ? ' 
 
 ' No harm, I assure you. But you know 
 what the poet says, — " Love lends a precious 
 seeing to the eye ! " ' 
 
 'What right have you, or any man, to 
 assume that I am in love with — with any- 
 body ? ' 
 
 ' It's the other way, my dear Burlace. 
 One can't help noticing what is before him ; 
 and you must be aware that Madame Hert- 
 rugge's preference for your society has been 
 imperfectly concealed, to say the least of it.' 
 
 At this Burlace's large mouth relaxed, and 
 a ruddy hue showed itself beneath the bristly 
 growth of his beard. ' Of course,' he remarked, 
 ' that is a thing I can say nothing about. A 
 
BURL ACE'S LUCK 109 
 
 disinterested observer would see more than I 
 could. Women are strange beings ; when you 
 expect most of them, they are away off, and 
 when you have given them up, round they 
 come again. But I suppose there are various 
 ways of intimating the same thing, and there 
 may be something in your idea that her inter- 
 est is quickened by a favourable regard for me. 
 That would be natural, and at the same time 
 it would detract nothing from the fact of her 
 intelligence.' 
 
 ' On the contrary,' said I, laughing, ' her 
 intelligence is sufficiently vindicated by the 
 fact of her favourable regard for you.' 
 
 ' Look here — if you are chaffing me -' 
 
 ' Nonsense, Will,' I cried out, testily, ' why 
 shouldn't I chaff you ? What are love-sick 
 idiots good for but to be chaffed ? I am not 
 in love with your Madame Hertrugge, nor she 
 with me. Do you expect me to leave my 
 Heine — my drawing, I mean — for the privi- 
 
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 lege of listening to your rhapsodies ? Why 
 don't you go and talk to her ? You began by 
 calling a friend of mine a beast, and now you 
 want me to sing the chorus to your amatory 
 drivel. I am not tuned to that key.' 
 
 Burlace knocked the ashes out of his pipe 
 on my table, and grinned. ' That's all right, 
 old fellow,' said he. ' You certainly have 
 been left out in this arrangement, and between 
 Ralph and me, you come to the ground. Well, 
 I'm not going to tantalise you with the spec- 
 tacle of my good fortune ; but when I say that 
 Conrad is a beast, I mean it. If he doesn't 
 look out, he will get a piece of my mind one 
 of these days.' 
 
 ' That will do him more injury than, any 
 of your inoculations for physical disease. But 
 do empty yourself of your message, if you 
 have one, and leave me in peace ! ' 
 
 ' That fellow Conrad,' continued Burlace, 
 imperturbably, ' actually had the face to insult 
 
BURLACE'S LUCK in 
 
 Madame Hertrugge in my presence. He told 
 her to remember that her late husband had 
 lived long enough to know her character ; and 
 that however much her disposition might in- 
 cline her to play fast and loose with other men, 
 the terms of his will would suffice to put them 
 on their guard against her. What do you 
 think of that ? ' 
 
 ' It was pretty plain speaking. What did 
 she say ? ' 
 
 ' She showed the dignity and self-possession 
 that only a lady is capable of. She told him 
 that she valued the friendship and sympathy 
 of an honest man more than any consideration 
 that he (Conrad) was capable of appreciating : 
 and that rather than have her free actions 
 misconstrued, she would willingly surrender 
 what he was pleased to call a check upon her 
 liberty;' 
 
 'Do you know to what Conrad, re- 
 ferred ? ' 
 
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 ' I didn't at the time ; but she told me 
 afterwards. It seems that senile old imbecile 
 of a husband of hers provided in his will — ' 
 
 ' You needn't trouble yourself to tell me,' 
 I interposed ; ' I know it already.' 
 
 ' Oh, you do ! Conrad has been warning 
 you off the premises as well.' 
 
 ' I never exchanged a word with him on 
 the subject.' 
 
 ' I understand ! ' said Burlace after staring 
 at me for a moment. ' The information came 
 from our friend Ralph. I've nothing against 
 Ralph ; he's all right. And if he carries out 
 his intentions, I shall bo under obligations to 
 him. You know, of course, that as soon as 
 he becomes the husband of Miss Hildegarde 
 there will be nothing to hinder Madame Hert- 
 rugge — ' 
 
 ' And does she favour the match ? ' 
 
 ' Of course she does. She has taken pains 
 to become acquainted with Ralph, and to test 
 
BURLACE'S LUCK 113 
 
 his character, and she has become satisfied 
 that he is unobjectionable.' 
 
 ' I haven't noticed that she has taken paina 
 to throw the young people together, however,' 
 I remarked. 
 
 ' How could she, stupid ? ' demanded 
 Burlace. ' Don't you see the delicacy of 
 her position ? If she were to appear as a 
 promoter of the affair, wouldn't Conrad and 
 all the other fools in the world scream out 
 that she was scheming to retain her fortune ? 
 She felt it to be her duty, as Hildegarde's 
 only friend of her own sex, to investigate the 
 character of any suitor for her hand ; but, 
 beyond that, she was obliged to restrict 
 herself to — what they call benevolent 
 neutrality ! ' 
 
 This view of the case struck me as being 
 so pathetically ludicrous that I could not 
 help laughing. After what I had witnessed 
 at Schandau, the interpretation of Catalina's 
 
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 behaviour as ' benevolent neutrality ' was ini- 
 mitable. ' I should have thought,' I said, 
 'that she would have applied to you for a 
 certificate of Ralph's availability.' 
 
 ' That happens to be precisely what she 
 did,' he returned, complacently. ' I told her 
 that Ralph was a trump in all respects, and 
 that I was convinced that he and Hildegarde 
 were born for each other.' 
 
 < You did ! ' 
 
 ' I did ; and she said — with a tone and 
 look that I am not likely to forget in a hurry 
 — that she had perfect confidence in my 
 judgment and perception, and that I had 
 taken a load of anxiety off her heart.' 
 
 ' Burlace,' said I, ' I'm a friend of yours ; 
 you bore me horribly sometimes, but I like 
 you, and if I knew a good sensible girl whose 
 happiness and well-being I wanted to insure, 
 I should tell her to get you to marry her. 
 And I am now going to give you an even 
 
BURLACE'S LUCK 115 
 
 greater proof of my friendship for you by 
 doing something that will probably make you 
 my enemy for life.' 
 
 ' Go on ! ' returned Burlace, without 
 evincing, I must say, any violent symptoms 
 of agitation. 
 
 ' Well, I advise you to pack up your 
 trunks and go back by the shortest route to 
 Chicago, and to forget all about Germany and 
 everybody you ever met there. As sure as 
 you stay here, you will get into the worst 
 scrape that any honest man ever got himself 
 into yet.' 
 
 Burlace looked at me intently for several 
 moments. My tone was serious, as my feeling 
 was, and he saw it. He answered me with a 
 gravity and dignity that touched me not a 
 little. 
 
 ' I'm sorry you said that,' he observed, 
 ' but I'm not your enemy for it, because I 
 don't believe you're the man to talk loosely 
 
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 on such a subject. You meant it well ; but — 
 well — I love that lady, and if any harm 
 comes to me on that account, I'm ready and 
 willing to take it as it comes. If she cares 
 for me, I should feel myself so lucky that a 
 misfortune would only put things straight. 
 But if you have anything against her, I give 
 you notice that I will not listen to it. I be- 
 lieve in her ; I believe there is no purer or 
 better woman in the world ; and whoever is 
 against her must be against me — sorry as I am 
 to say it to you, old man.' The voice of the 
 honest, pig-headed fellow faltered at the last 
 words, and he ostentatiously began to fill his 
 pipe and hunt in impossible places for a match. 
 I felt as if there might be tears in my own 
 eyes. My affection for Burlace had never 
 been so strong as it was then ; and he was 
 caught in a net from which there could be no 
 escape that was not more or less disastrous. 
 Catalina meant to use him as a tool to carry 
 out her purposes on Hildegarde and Ralph. 
 
BURL ACE'S LUCK 117 
 
 What her purposes were, or how she would 
 employ Burlace, of course I did not know, but 
 I could not doubt the intention. She had 
 been checked once ; she would profit by 
 experience, and so devise that there would be 
 no check the second time. 
 
 It would be useless in Burlace's present 
 state of mind, to tell him the story of my 
 hour in the camera at Schandau. He would 
 not credit it, even if he consented to listen to 
 it. I could only keep such watch as circum- 
 stances permitted on her future movements. 
 But even that was less my affair than either 
 Ralph's or Conrad's. There were probably 
 no secrets between them, and they would 
 take such measures as they deemed neces- 
 sary. 
 
 It sometimes seems as if we could help 
 one another, in this world, only in minor and 
 insignificant matters. When the real pinch 
 comes, we are powerless, and can only observe 
 the inevitable approach of destiny. 
 
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 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 A DRAMATIC TRIUMPH. 
 
 In Germany, the ceremony of betrothal is an 
 event of greater social importance than it is 
 here ; you often see the announcement printed 
 in the newspapers, and it is made the subject 
 of comment and congratulation among rela- 
 tives and friends. There is something pretty 
 and patriarchal in the idea ; though, society 
 not being quite patriarchal at the present day, 
 I am not sure that the results are especially 
 beneficent. Privacy is sometimes better than 
 picturesqueness, in an artificial age. 
 
 However that may be, the news of the be- 
 trothal of Hildegarde Hertrugge and Ralph 
 Merlin was made known, about this time, to 
 
A DRAMATIC TRIUMPH ,119 
 
 interested persons ; and an invitation was 
 issued to a select few to meet the young 
 people at a reception given at Madame 
 Hertrugge's house. I received a card, written, 
 a little to my surprise, by Catalina herself; 
 and, as a matter of course, Burlace was 
 there. 
 
 This was the nearest approach to a social 
 festivity that had been given at the house 
 since Mr. Hertrugge's decease, and I suppose 
 people were anxious to see how the widow 
 would conduet herself. The purport of the 
 late husband's will was generally known, at 
 least among the nearer friends of .the family, 
 so there may also have been some speculation 
 as to whether the consequences of the antioU 
 pated marriage were likely to be availed ,of 
 promptly, or whether the handsome Catalina 
 would prefer to postpone indefinitely the for-* 
 mation of fresh ties. But it was agreed • that 
 she was fortunate in getting released so early 
 
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 from what must have been at best a some- 
 what annoying stipulation. 
 
 I came rather late, and the company had 
 already assembled, and had got over the first 
 formalities and uncertainties of the situation. 
 The drawing-room was comfortably filled ; 
 there was a number of officers, with the air of 
 immaculate and insolent self-complacency that 
 is the general characteristic of German war- 
 riors, and has become still more marked since 
 the war with France than it was before ; there 
 were several professors, friends of Cbnrad, 
 and, for the most part, acquaintances of my 
 own ; there were a few nondescript persons of 
 the male sex, presumably relatives ; there 
 were a dozen or twenty homely women, two 
 or three good-looking ones, and one con- 
 spicuously beautiful, who, I need not say, was 
 no other than Catalina herself. 
 
 As for Hildegarde and her lover, though 
 they were in the unenviable position of being 
 
A DRAMATIC TRIUMPH 12 1 
 
 the cynosures of the occasion, they did not 
 seem to mind it much ; their love for each 
 other enabled them to rise superior to circum- 
 stances. They stood near each other, as we 
 ordinarily measure distance, yet remote enough 
 for lovers, since two or three paces and twice 
 as many people intervened between them, 
 but across this gulf of time and space they ever 
 and anon threw a proud glance at each other, 
 as much as to say : ' My love, I am yours ; 
 the world cannot part us ! ' It is wonderful 
 and delightful how this dawn of love 
 between two worthy human beings always 
 leads them back to pure, primitive emotions, 
 so that they are sure that they are the first, 
 since Adam and Eve, to discover and enter 
 the vale of Paradise. ' No one ever loved 
 before ! ' is the refrain of their thought ; and, 
 indeed, there is always a hope — a possibility 
 — that now at last the time may have come 
 when the world, and our sad human life in it, 
 
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 is to undergo transfiguration, and begin again 
 with those two lovers. The world grins at 
 them and calls them silly ; but the lovers 
 know, with the deepest and soundest of all 
 knowledge, how tragically and grotesquely 
 silly is the grinning world. Merely by 
 love, and by that only, can all the prob- 
 lems of political economy, all the abuses of 
 society, all the miseries of mankind, be solved, 
 reformed, alleviated. ' Only be like us,' the 
 lovers say, ' and you will be whole ! ' The 
 world grins ; but ah ! how glad and grateful 
 its poor old -wizened heart would be, if love 
 could but gather power really to conquer it 
 and lead it captive ! You may know that 
 this is true by observing the eyes of elderly 
 people,, when the little hugging arms of in- 
 fancy are around their necks ; and by noticing 
 with what jealous delight the world follows 
 the fortunes of any lovers who have had the 
 wisdom to be silly all their lives. The vie? 
 
A DRAMATIC TRIUMPH 123 
 
 tories "which the world enjoys and celebrates 
 are never its own, but always those of its 
 opponents over itself. 
 
 One does not often meet with a pair of 
 lovers having a more assured air of victory 
 than Hildegarde and Ralph wore that evening. 
 But Hildegarde was infinitely the more at- 
 tractive object of the two, not only because 
 she appeared this evening in the consummate 
 flower of her maidenly loveliness ; but because 
 love, for her, was a self-surrender, whereas for 
 Ralph, as for all men, it was more an acquisi- 
 tion. He adored and reverenced her, no 
 doubt ; but he was also conscious of the pride 
 of possession — of having won the treasure for 
 his own, to keep and defend against all rivals. 
 Such a feeling, in its final analysis, is selfish. 
 But in the maiden's love there is no selfish- 
 ness. Her longing and ambition was not to 
 possess him, but to be possessed by him ; to 
 give herself to him so entirely that nothing of 
 
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 herself should be left that was not his, and him ! 
 Their union should mean, not a linking to- 
 gether, but the merging of herself in him. 
 She grudged herself even the happiness that his 
 love wrought in her ; she would have all the 
 happiness his, but could not make it so, 
 because the more his happiness was increased, 
 the happier must she be. So hers was the 
 divine inspiration, and her fair face was 
 radiant with a purer light than can ever shine 
 in the countenance of any son of Adam. 
 
 She was dressed in feathery white ; her 
 eyes had the soft, mysterious darkness that 
 characterises hazel eyes in moments of deep 
 emotion. There was more colour than usual 
 in her cheeks ; it had an opaline quality, 
 coming and going with a thought or a look. 
 For ornament she wore the opal ring that 
 Ralph had given her, — an exquisite stone, 
 trembling with celestial fire. But, somehow, 
 it made me sad to look at her. Life was not 
 
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 what she thought it was. Many cruel sorrows 
 would come to her, and the light that was in 
 her eyes to-night would grow faint and in- 
 frequent. It seemed almost a pity that the 
 attainment of such felicity as this should not 
 be the immediate prelude to what those who 
 do not love call death. The valleys of shadow 
 through which we walk do not always give 
 strength. Often, they benumb and bewilder, 
 and only a forlorn parody of the young tra- 
 veller who sets forth so blithely arrives at last 
 on the shore of the unknown river. 
 
 I took Hildegarde's hand in mine, and 
 made my formal good wishes ; but she seemed 
 far off, not from any voluntary remoteness on 
 her part, but because I did not inhabit the 
 sphere of her existence. As for Ealph, his 
 measureless content was trying to mere friend- 
 ship. ' I hope you don't think you deserve 
 her,' I said to him. 
 
 ' There is no measure for measure about it,' 
 
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 he replied. ' The only place where a man 
 approximately gets his deserts, is hell ; and 
 he probably imagines even that to be heaven.' 
 
 ' What is heaven ? ' I asked. 
 
 ' The marriage of the good and the true/ 
 said he. ' It is the marriage that makes 
 heaven — not either of the contracting parties. 
 That is where my chance comes in.' 
 
 ' You had better say nothing ; nothing 
 you can say fits the occasion.' 
 
 ' Which occasion ? My betrothal, or this 
 reception ? ' 
 
 ' True,' I admitted ; ' and I am in the 
 wrong as usual. There are times when asso- 
 ciation with one's kind is almost indecent. If 
 a fairy were present at my betrothal, I should 
 ask her for the cup of invisibility.' 
 
 After this unsatisfactory dialogue, it was a 
 pleasure to turn to Catalina. There was no 
 remoteness in her sphere ; she was on the 
 earth, and of it. Her behaviour was exactly 
 
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 what it ought to be — assuming the situation 
 to be what it externally appeared. She was 
 pleased at her step -daughter's happiness, and 
 yet there were some traces of solicitude in the 
 look she occasionally bent upon her, as if she 
 were not yet quite sure that all was for the 
 best. As regarded herself, there was a certain 
 reserve of manner, conveying the impression 
 that she was far from being in haste to claim 
 the rights of emancipation that Hildegarde's 
 marriage would confer upon her, but rather 
 meant to substitute her own volition for the 
 restraint lately imposed by her husband's 
 decree. Her mood, therefore, was one of 
 cheerful gravity ; gravity being the back- 
 ground, and cheerfulness the outward orna- 
 ment. 
 
 Inasmuch as she had struck me, when I 
 first met her, as being one of the most ele- 
 mental persons I had ever seen — a woman of 
 a primeval type, experiencing and rejoicing in' 
 
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 the sti*ong but simple passions that lie at the 
 basis of human nature — I was hardly prepared 
 to find her so accomplished in dissimulation. 
 But, after all, dissimulation is itself an ele- 
 mental trait. Animals dissimulate to gain 
 their ends ; the bird whose nest is beneath 
 your foot tempts you with the pretence of a 
 broken wing, and the crocodile lies like a log 
 until you are within reach of its jaws. Be- 
 sides, jealousy and revenge are quick and 
 effective teachers ; and there is a histrionic 
 quality in women of the Catalina kind which 
 facilitates their assumption of sentiments and 
 expressions alien to their real ones. Catalina 
 was evidently a natural artist in this respect. 
 ' Love is a melancholy spectacle,' I said to 
 her — for I too felt impelled, by magnetic 
 sympathy perhaps, to reflect her dissimulation 
 — ' it promises so much and performs so little. 
 Would you be willing to change places with 
 that poor girl ? ' 
 
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 { You are too cynical,' she answered with 
 a smile. 'Any woman might be proud and 
 glad to be loved as Ralph loves Hildegarde. 
 If I were melancholy, it would be because, for 
 me, the time for that has gone by.' 
 
 ' I would not hear your enemy say so ! ' 
 returned I. ' If you have no more to do With 
 love, it is you who must have decreed the es- 
 trangement. And,' I added with an audacity 
 that I myself could not but admire, 'had I 
 possessed Ralph's mysterious faculty for win- 
 ning hearts, I should have chosen the perfect 
 flower, rather than stand the hazard of the 
 bud.' 
 
 ' If you possessed the gift, possibly it 
 would amend your judgment,' she said, send- 
 ing out a gleam of genuine anger from her 
 black eyes. Then, with a sudden change of 
 tone and manner, she touched my hand 
 lightly with hers, and added, ' Love me, if you 
 
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 will ; and we will learn wisdom from each 
 other.' 
 
 Mockery though it was, it made me realise 
 her seductive power. ' I am afraid ! ' I said, 
 smiling. 
 
 ' Afraid ! of what ? ' 
 
 ' That you would lead me to the edge of 
 the precipice and push me over.' 
 
 ' Ah ! ' said she, slowly. We looked at 
 each other for a long moment. ' Why not 
 push me over ? ' she asked at length ; ' you 
 are the stronger.' 
 
 ' But is there any need ? ' I returned. 
 
 ' Ah ! ' she said again, in a different key. 
 
 Burlace was always hovering in her neigh- 
 bourhood, and at this moment he approached, 
 probably in response to some private signal: 
 She turned from me, and I moved away. I 
 had not intended to quarrel with her, and no 
 benefit to anyone was likely to come from our 
 little bout -, but the truth was, these attacks 
 
A DRAMATIC TRIUMPH 13 1 
 
 of mine were prompted by an instinct of self- 
 defence against the influence she exerted over 
 me. I am not considered generally suscepti- 
 ble ; but I felt a peril in her propinquity, and 
 gave up Burlace for lost. 
 
 ' All goes merry as a marriage bell, Pro- 
 fessor,' I said to Conrad, seating myself beside 
 him on a settee. ' What think you ? Will 
 the example prove contagious ? ' and I allowed 
 my eyes to rest meditatively on Burlace. 
 
 ' Your acuteness is greater than your 
 judgment,' said he. ' Some people can be 
 frightened into harmlessness ; but veiled 
 threats, which you are so given to employing, 
 only stimulate others to more dangerous ac- 
 tivity. Pardon my frankness ; but I have a 
 difficult affair on my hands, and a rash word, 
 however well meant, might set the odds too 
 much against me. You understand me, don't 
 you ?' 
 
 ' In your present sense, perhaps ; but — ' 
 
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 ' Well, never mind the other senses,' he in- 
 terrupted. ' Did I ever tell you, that the tele- 
 gram I received the other day, summoning 
 me to Freiberg, was a deception. The emer- 
 gency it spoke of was a pure invention.' 
 
 ' Who—' 
 
 ' No matter who sent it. I mentioned it 
 because you may have some reason to think 
 that I am able to act effectively in predica- 
 ments that would find other men helpless. I 
 don't deny that such may sometimes be- the 
 case. But at other times, perhaps quite as 
 important, I am as liable to be caught napping 
 as the stupidest man you know. If I had 
 been clever enough to see through the telegram, 
 for example, there would have been no neces- 
 sity for the phenomenon that occurred after- 
 wards.' 
 
 This was the first time that anything had 
 passed between me and this extraordinary man 
 on the subject of the apparition at Schandau. 
 
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 Indeed, I had not spoken of it to any one ; 
 
 and if I was not surprised that he nevertheless 
 
 knew what I had seen, it was only because 
 
 nothing in which he was concerned could sur- 
 prise me. 
 
 ' You will not object to Ralph's taking her 
 
 to America as soon as they are married ? ' said 
 
 I, letting the mysteries go. 
 
 ' Let us get them married first,' he replied, 
 and even as he spoke there was a commotion 
 and then a cry, at the upper end of the room. 
 Every one rose ; but Conrad had already made 
 his way to the centre, whither all attention 
 was strained. When I got there I found him 
 with his hand on Hildegarde's pulse. She 
 was reclining, half supported by Ralph. Her 
 eyes were partly open, but she was evidently 
 unconscious. 
 
 'It is the excitement — she has fainted,' 
 said Catalina's voice close to my ear. I 
 turned sharply and saw the profile of that 
 
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 beautiful face, as she gazed steadily at the 
 pale, inanimate girl. ' Bring her to my own 
 room,' she said, quietly. ' I will take care of 
 her. It will soon be over.' 
 
 ' Not so soon as you think ! ' said Conrad, 
 looking up at her. A green light seemed to 
 flash out from his eyes, and his thin lips re- 
 ceded slightly from his white teeth, in a 
 grimace that cannot be described as a smile. 
 If Catalina's sentence had borne a double 
 meaning, so did his rejoinder, and the two 
 foes had joined battle. 
 
 The sympathetic bystanders saw only an 
 episode familiar enough in ball-rooms, ren- 
 dered a little more interesting than common 
 by the fact that the young lady who had 
 fainted was she in honour of whose betrothal 
 they were assembled. They murmured their 
 compassion for her, and for her handsome 
 lover. But Ealph, after the first few moments, 
 had become as cold and impassive as marble, 
 
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 as if he had read the fateful writing on the 
 wall, and interpreted it. His gaze was bent 
 with intense concentration upon Hildegarde's 
 face ; one would have said that he was willing 
 bis own life to substitute • itself for hers. 
 But he was isolated from the rest of the 
 world ; nothing coming thence could reach him. 
 
 ' She'll come to all right ; give her air 
 and a whiff of hartshorn ! ' cried out Burlace, 
 encouragingly. ' Don't you fret, old man ; 
 there's no danger ! ' 
 
 ' Poor boy ! ' murmured Catalina, with a 
 secret smile ; ' it was a shame to spoil his 
 happy evening. It was so pretty to see their 
 delight in each other ! ' 
 
 Ralph rose to his feet, lifting Hildegarde 
 lightly in his arms ; the throng of spectators 
 fell back, and he carried her out of the room, 
 accompanied by Conrad. Burlace was about 
 to accompany them, when Catalina arrested 
 him by a glance. 
 
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 1 We won't make too much fuss about it,' 
 she said, speaking partly to him and partly 
 to the company. ' My step-daughter is ac- 
 customed to these attacks ; she is delicate, 
 and studied too hard in the convent. She 
 will be as well as ever to-morrow, and her 
 brother and Ralph are quite competent to 
 take care of her.' 
 
 'I trust it will prove as unimportant as 
 Madame Hertrugge thinks,' observed one of 
 the professors, beside whom I happened to be 
 standing. 'At the same time it did not 
 appear to me like an ordinary fainting fit. 
 A new disease has been diagnosed lately, very 
 obscure and difficult in its features ; it is 
 heralded by abrupt spells of unconsciousness, 
 accompanied by certain peculiar symptoms, 
 which I seemed to recognise in the present 
 case. We are endeavouring to investigate its 
 origin by the aid of the microscope ; but, so 
 far, without any very satisfactory results. If 
 
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 one could only mate experiments on- the 
 human subject ! I wish some disposition, 
 looking that way, could be made of criminals 
 convicted of capital offences.' 
 
 ' Is the disease you speak of fatal ? ' I 
 inquired. 
 
 'No cure has yet been discovered,' he 
 replied. ' Its duration is from two to three 
 days. It appears to be painless, and produces 
 little 01* no change in the external aspect of 
 the subject, nor has dissection yet afforded 
 any conclusive evidence as to 'the precise cause 
 of death in the circumsiances.' 
 
 The guests were taking their leave. Cata- 
 lina was bidding them good-bye, with a com- 
 fortable smile and cheery word for each. 
 ' What a woman she is ! ' I heard someone 
 say. ' She is much more anxious about that 
 poor girl than she pretends ; but she will' not 
 allow her guests to be discomposed ! ' 
 
 At last, my time came to say good-night. 
 
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 1 What ! ' exclaimed Catalina, smilingly, 
 ' are you, too, going to allow yourself to be 
 frightened away ? I shall owe Hildegarde a 
 grudge for this ! ' 
 
 ' You must permit me to say that you 
 have managed this affair admirably,' I 
 returned. ' It has been an artistic and 
 personal success. And yet — there are so 
 many slips between the cup and the lip — I 
 hardly know whether my congratulations 
 may not be even now premature. Have you 
 no misgivings ? ' 
 
 ' Come to-morrow ! ' she said, holding out 
 her hand. 
 
 I took her hand. It was warm, firm and 
 soft. Her eyes were clear, composed, 
 triumphant. She felt no remorse, still less 
 any fear. She was perfectly natural. She 
 had met with an obstacle, and she had re- 
 moved it. She had suffered a rebuff, and she 
 had requited it. All is fair in love and war. 
 
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 It was a long time before I saw her again, 
 under very different circumstances. But, 
 among all the times and phases in which I 
 have seen her, the picture of her in my 
 memory, as she appeared at this moment, 
 remains most distinct. It was the most 
 characteristic ; there was more in it than in 
 anv other, of the real woman that she was. 
 
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 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 THE PENTAGON. 
 
 I called at the Hertrugge's house on the 
 following day, to inquire as to the condition 
 of Hildegarde, and was informed by the 
 servant that she was still in bed. I saw 
 none of the inmates, and as Ralph was not to 
 be found in his own lodgings, I inferred that 
 he also was with her. I then attempted to 
 get hold of Burlace, but although I had good 
 grounds for believing that he was in his room 
 when I went to see him, his presence was 
 denied at the door. Nothing remained but 
 to wait for news to come to me. 
 
 On the evening of the third day, as I was 
 standing on the old bridge that connects the 
 
THE PENTAGON 141 
 
 Altstadt with, the Neustadt, looking down at 
 the current which eddies for ever against the 
 stone abutments, some one entered the little 
 semi-circular recess that I occupied, and stood 
 beside me. 
 
 I looked up at him — it Was Ralph — and 
 was about to ask him how Hildegarde.was, 
 but his face apprised me that a calamity had 
 happened. 
 
 ' She is dead,' he said, after a moment, 
 ' and I am on my way to London. I do- not 
 care to stay for the funeral.' 
 
 ' What did she die of ? ' I asked, mechan- 
 ically. 
 
 ' Of a disease affecting the circulation. I 
 believe it has not been classified yet. .Among 
 the many new inventions nowadays, there are 
 some new diseases.' 
 
 ' But it is recognised as a disease? ' 
 
 < Yes.' 
 
 ' How did she get it ? 
 
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 ' As she might have caught a cold, or the 
 smallpox. By the act of God, as the lawyers 
 would say.' 
 
 ' What shall you do in London? ' 
 
 'Go to a hotel, I suppose. I have no 
 plans. There is nothing to be done but to 
 wait. How to make the time pass most 
 quickly is the question. It is becoming 
 tedious already.' 
 
 ' How are Conrad and — ' I hesitated. 
 
 ' Conrad and Catalina are very well, I 
 believe,' he answered, speaking, as he had 
 done from the first, in an apathetic and list- 
 less tone, as of a man physically and mentally 
 weary, but no longer a prey to any emotion. 
 He added presently, ' Catalina had no reason 
 to be my friend, or Hildegarde's either ; but I 
 am bound to say she has been kind and sym- 
 pathetic throughout. Conrad seems to dislike 
 her ; but her only fault, as far as I can see, is 
 
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 that she is herself, and that is one common to 
 all of us.' 
 
 We leaned side by side upon the stone 
 parapet, looking down at the stream. I did 
 not think it expedient to make any remarks 
 ' proper to the occasion.' Hildegarde was 
 dead ; Ralph's life was a blank ; I was sorry. 
 We both knew these facts, and talking about 
 them would benefit neither of us. What he 
 had said about Catalina had evidently been 
 sincerely meant, but it surprised me. For 
 though it was true that I had never told him 
 of her attempted crime at Schandau, yet I had 
 not expected Conrad to be as reticent ; and if 
 he had known that, he would scarcely have 
 failed to suspect her hand in this case also. 
 Why had not Conrad told him ? Did Conrad 
 himself acquit her ? 1 could not believe it ; 
 his silence must have had some motive which 
 I was not in a position to understand. - At 
 
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 all events, since he had not spoken, I had no 
 cue to speak. 
 
 I contented myself, therefore, with making 
 some suggestions looking towards my joining 
 him, in the course of a few weeks, in London, 
 I had previously made up my mind to leave 
 Dresden after he and Hildegarde were married. 
 I had spent over three years in somewhat de- 
 sultory studies, and I did not care to remain 
 after my chief friend had departed. Ealph 
 made no objection to the proposal, though 
 neither did he profess any particular gratifica- 
 tion at it. His ailment at present was in- 
 ability to care for anything. Our talk, fre- 
 quently interrupted by silences, drifted into 
 generalities, and finally he roused himself and 
 said he must be going. Curiosity prompted 
 me to say, at the last moment, ' Are you sorry 
 that you met her ? ' 
 
 ' Oh, no,' he said slowly. ' I shall meet 
 her again. I feel no absolute separation ; if 
 
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 I die, I shall accommodate myself to it. The 
 conviction that our parting is only temporary 
 makes it easier to bear in one way — the higher 
 way ; but harder in another. As it is, I count 
 the days ; but one does not count towards 
 eternity.' 
 
 ' And are you no more inclined than you 
 were to try the resources of Spiritism ? ' 
 
 He shook his head. ' I certainly don't 
 wish to have Hildegarde parodied by the first 
 wandering disembodied courtesan who happens 
 to scent my bereavement. That would be 
 the way to lose her. As long as I keep her 
 image sacred in my soul, I am safe ; but if I 
 allow it to be manipulated and polluted by 
 sensual impostors — I might as well have cast 
 her living body before a herd of swine.' 
 
 ' But what if there be no future life ? ' I 
 persisted. 
 
 ' Then there is no life at all. And if our 
 belief that there is a life here be an illusion, 
 
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 then it would be only reasonable to expect the 
 illusion to continue after the illusion of death. 
 I have no anxieties on that score.' 
 
 "We shook hands, and went our several 
 ways. I saw him cross the bridge, with his 
 measured, but elastic step, and a slight swing 
 of his shoulders from side to side, that would 
 have revealed him to me among a thousand. 
 Gradually the throng on the sidewalk inter- 
 vening, rendered him indistinguishable ; and 
 I plodded home in low spirits, and with 
 gloomy forebodings. 
 
 I do not belong to that numerous and re- 
 spectable class who derive a certain gentle 
 satisfaction from funerals. When my friends 
 die, I would rather think of them as they 
 were, and as I hope and believe they are, than 
 associate them with any thought of the effigy 
 in the undertaker's box. Accordingly, I 
 made up my mind not to go to Hildegarde's 
 funeral; Ealph himself had avoided the dis- 
 
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 mal ceremony, and I had no reason to suppose 
 that Conrad would notice my absence, or be 
 flattered should I be present. Moreover, I 
 did not like the idea of meeting Catalina there ; 
 whether her look should be undisguised 
 triumph, or of hypocritical grief, it would be 
 equally unlovely. So I sent a note to Conrad, 
 saying that I should be out of town on the 
 day of the solemnity, and expressing the 
 regret I sincerely felt at his sister's death. 
 
 To my surprise, he appeared at my 
 lodgings the next morning. He seemed in 
 his usual spirits, and, indeed, imported a 
 lightsome tone into the conversation that 
 Etruck somewhat discordantly on my ear. 
 
 ' Unless you really have business that 
 demands your absence from town to-morrow, 
 my dear fellow,' said he, ' don't think it 
 necessary to go on this account. Believe me, 
 I fully understand your reluctance to put in 
 an appearance on the occasion ; if I had my 
 
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 way, I would willingly omit the ceremony 
 altogether. If people believe in a future life, 
 they ought to be glad, instead of sorry, at the 
 death of a friend ; or if they feel a selfish 
 sorrow, they ought, as Christians, to suppress 
 the exhibition of it. If, on the other hand, 
 they believe that death finally ends all, what 
 is the use of lamenting the irrevocable? Let 
 them put it out of their minds as promptly as 
 possible, lest they invite the unpleasant 
 reflection that they themselves will soon be 
 blotted out of existence also.' 
 
 ' I am not altogether of your way of 
 thinking,' I replied. ' It is right to pay respect 
 to the memory of the dead. We would desire 
 it when our own times come.' 
 
 ' Ah, that is the point ! ' exclaimed Conrad, 
 smiling. ' Stroke me, and I'll stroke you ! 
 But how absurd it is ! Of what avail to your 
 dead flesh and bones will my conventional 
 respect be — or any other respect for that 
 
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 matter? As for your soul, if you concede 
 yourself a soul, it will have other things to 
 claim its attention than the length of its 
 earthly acquaintances' faces and the breadth 
 of their hatbands. No! the whole business 
 is the remains of a savage superstition, to the 
 effect that the ghosts of the dead haunted the 
 scene of their corporeal existence, and exe- 
 cuted vengeance upon those who failed to 
 express a proper poignancy of grief at their 
 departure. Given the superstition, the cere- 
 mony was at least intelligible ; but that it 
 should survive the superstition is idiotic ! ' 
 
 ' Possibly the superstition had some basis 
 in fact,' I remarked. 
 
 He gave me a peculiar, quick glance, the 
 significance of which I did not comprehend. 
 It was as if he were questioning how far I 
 spoke seriously. 
 
 ' That, at any rate, is not the prevailing 
 impression,' he returned presently, ' nor does 
 
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 it seem likely, on the face of it, that the ghost 
 of Hildegarde could make itself very terrible 
 to anybody.' 
 
 I made no answer, and, after a pause, he 
 said, ' However, I didn't come here to discuss 
 funerals in the abstract, but to beg a little 
 favour of you.' 
 
 ' I shall be glad of the opportunity of 
 doing you one.' 
 
 ' It is simply to walk over to my house 
 with me for a moment. I have something I 
 particularly want to show you. No ! ' he 
 added, with another smile, ' you will not see 
 my beloved step-mother. Her grief is far too 
 absorbing to admit of her being visible even 
 to you. So — will you come? ' 
 
 I put on my hat and accompanied him to 
 his house. Opening the door with his pass- 
 key, he conducted me through a passage to 
 another door, on passing through which I 
 found myself in his study. 
 
THE PENTAGON 151 
 
 I had never before been admitted to this 
 room, and I looked round me with some 
 curiosity. It was singularly bare of the 
 ordinary appurtenances to the retreat of a 
 student. There was not a single book to be 
 seen anywhere, nor any writing materials. 
 The walls were of plaster, tinted a dull red ; 
 no pictures decorated them, but in their stead 
 there were sundry geometrical diagrams drawn 
 with black and white lines. They conveyed 
 no meaning to my mind. The ceiling was 
 blue, of the same tone as the walls ; and there 
 were waving lines of some obscure pattern 
 traced on it. On a table, poised upon a slender 
 stand, stood what I at first took to be a solid 
 sphere of crystal ; it was in reality a spherical 
 globe, filled with a transparent liquid, from 
 which, occasionally, proceeded rays of pure 
 azure light. The plan of the roox» was a 
 pentagon. On the floor at the north end was 
 a block of solid metal, apparently iron ; it also 
 
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 was pentagonal in shape, and a yard in di- 
 ameter and a foot in thickness. From the 
 ceiling directly above it was suspended the 
 largest horse-shoe magnet I ever saw. A half- 
 open cupboard revealed some steel and silver 
 instruments, some glass tubes and retorts, and 
 several bottles of various sizes containing 
 coloured liquids. Finally, the angle of the 
 eastern corner of the room was concealed by a 
 voluminous curtain of black velvet ; and in the 
 western angle, behind the glass sphere, was a 
 full-length plate mirror, in a broad black frame. 
 
 ' Now we are at home ! ' observed Conrad, 
 closing the door behind me. ' No one can 
 enter here without my consent. You may 
 say that nobody would care to on any terms ; 
 but I can be pretty comfortable here, in my 
 own way, when I choose. Sit down and try 
 a cigarette. I will be ready in a moment.' 
 
 He passed behind the black curtain as he 
 spoke, and I seated myself in a chair and lit 
 
THE PENTAGON 153 
 
 one of the cigarettes he had offered me, 
 wondering the while what his object could 
 have been in bringing me there. But the 
 flavour of the cigarette was highly agreeable ; 
 it had an effect upon the mind at once sooth- 
 ing and clarifying. I have sometimes awak- 
 ened in the hour before dawn and found my 
 intellectual faculties in a similarly calm and 
 potent state. The smoke from the burning 
 tobacco, rising in the still air of the room, 
 was drawn by imperceptible currents into 
 strangely graceful lines and figures, recalling 
 those which the stricken chords of a piano 
 produce in fine sand, sifted over a sheet of 
 paper and placed within the instrument. I 
 remember ascribing the phenomenon at the 
 time to some subtle influence proceeding from 
 the great magnet. 
 
 I sat with my head thrown back against 
 the cushioned chair, abstractedly watching 
 these shifting forms, until I could almost im- 
 
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 agine that they were observing some intelli- 
 gible principle in their movements. I was j ust 
 in the mood to weave some fanciful extrava- 
 ganza upon this notion, when my attention 
 was diverted by Conrad's voice, and looking 
 round, I saw him standing beside the curtain, 
 with his hand upon it He beckoned me to 
 approach. I rose and went to him at once, 
 and passing behind the fold of the curtain that 
 he held aside for me, I found myself in a sort 
 of shrine, lighted in some manner not obvious 
 to me, but with a very soft and pleasing radi- 
 ance. This radiance was concentrated on a 
 sofa, set against the wall ; and on the sofa, clad 
 in the same feathery white dress that she had 
 worn at her betrothal party, lay the figure of 
 Hildegarde, asleep. 
 
I5S 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 LIFE AND DEATH. 
 
 ' What have you done ? ' I exclaimed, with 
 an involuntary impulse, turning from this 
 spectacle to gaze in Conrad's face. I felt as 
 if I had been unawares entrapped into as- 
 sisting at some uncanny exhibition of necro- 
 mancy. 
 
 Conrad's green eyes sparkled. 'Afterlife's 
 fitful fever, she sleeps well, does she not ? ' he 
 said, in an ironic tone. ' What disturbs you, 
 my dear fellow ? Have you ever seen a more 
 beautiful cadaver ? ' 
 
 ' Is this Hildegarde, or an image ? ' said I. 
 I had been greatly startled, and I believe 
 there was an idea in my mind that Conrad 
 
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 had made an effigy of his sister in wax. 
 Either that, or some mystery. 
 
 He gave a slow laugh. ' That is the ques- 
 tion that divides critical opinion at present,' 
 he replied. ' Is this all there is left when we 
 die ? or is it but an image of what has been ? 
 What think you ? ' 
 
 I looked more steadily at the figure, and 
 finally, overcoming my first reluctance, bent 
 down and examined it. There could be no 
 doubt that it was no waxen image, but simply 
 the dead body of Hildegarde, neither more 
 nor less. It lay in so natural a pose, however, 
 and the illusion of quiet sleep was so perfect, 
 that I could not help expecting to see the 
 bosom rise in a long breath, and the great 
 eyes open. But the dead never return to life, 
 though it sometimes seems as if they easily 
 might. 
 
 { The difference is not so great, after all,' 
 remarked Conrad, replying, as he often did, to 
 
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 my thought instead of to anything I had said. 
 ' She seems to sleep ; and if you imagine that 
 it is sleep and nothing more, does it not 
 amount to the same thing ? ' 
 
 ' You had better ask Ealph that question,' 
 I replied. 
 
 'Ealph is not ready yet to be philoso- 
 phical,' said he, smiling. ' He was inclined 
 to be extravagent in his first demonstrations, 
 and, it was for that reason that I persuaded 
 bim to leave at once. "When the first shock is 
 over, he will be safe ; and then he can return 
 and look at her without risk.' 
 
 ' He has no thought of returning,' I said, 
 ' and even if he did, the body would be in its 
 grave, and decay have set in.' 
 
 ' There will be no decay in this case,' re- 
 turned Conrad. ' I have made a pretty tho- 
 rough study of the science of embalming, and 
 I can affirm that I have not only fathomed all 
 the secrets known to the ancients on that sub- 
 
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 ject, but I have made several independent dis- 
 coveries of my own. This body might remain 
 precisely in its present condition — barring ac- 
 cidents, of course — for an indefinite number of 
 centuries. She would be still fresh and young 
 when Ralph is tottering on the extreme verge 
 of old age ; and he might return in some 
 future reincarnation (if the Buddhist theory 
 be true), and still find her as you see her at 
 this moment.' 
 
 1 It is an ugly thought,' said I. ' I rather 
 wish that the body might disappear as soon 
 as the soul leaves it. At all events, let it 
 return to dust as soon as the process of nature 
 allows. What possible object can there be in 
 keeping it ? ' 
 
 ' In the majority of cases there would be 
 no object, and my opinion would agree with 
 yours. But as regards Hildegarde, there are 
 other considerations. I am interested in cer- 
 tain rather curious investigations touching the 
 
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 connection between the soul and the body. 
 There are facts that seem to indicate that so 
 long as the body is preserved in its inte- 
 grity, the soul cannot altogether abandon 
 it. Ordinarily, the soul soon passes into 
 states where all possibility of communica- 
 tion with it ceases ; but, on the hypothesis to 
 which I allude, it might not be so inacces- 
 sible.' 
 
 ' This is horrible ! ' I exclaimed. ' Do 
 you mean to say that your scientific curiosity 
 would lead you to bind the soul of your 
 own sister to the neighbourhood of the world 
 from which death has liberated her ! It 
 would be impious ! What end could justify 
 it?' 
 
 ' You had better ask Ralph that question, 
 he replied, repeating my own words of a few 
 minutes before. ' And if that be not enough 
 you might make the inquiry of my beloved 
 step-mother, Catalina ! ' 
 
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 I stared at the man with an emotion not 
 far removed from absolute fear. 
 
 ' Do you seriously pretend to such powers 
 as these ? ' I asked. 
 
 ' I can hardly be said to claim a power, if 
 I avail myself of natural laws,' said he, com- 
 posedly ; ' and whether those laws be 
 generally recognised or not, does not alter the 
 case. What I have just suggested does not 
 approach the abnormal so closely as did the 
 incident that occurred at Schandau a few 
 weeks ago.' 
 
 I turned away, feeling a little giddy, 
 though whether by reason of the tenor of 
 Conrad's remarks, or for some more concrete 
 cause, I bardly know. But Conrad took me 
 gently by the arm, and led me out of the 
 shrine. 
 
 ' Your nerves are a little off their centre,' 
 he said, pleasantly, ' but luckily I have some- 
 
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 thing here that will set you right in a moment. 
 Come, sit down here.' 
 
 As he spoke, I felt a rush of cold air over 
 my head and neck. I was sitting, not on the 
 chair, as before, but on the pentagonal block 
 of iron at the upper corner of the room. The 
 rush of air came from above, apparently from 
 the magnet. For a moment I felt a stifling 
 sensation, and tried to rise and cry out, but I 
 could do neither ; an irresistible weight 
 pressed me downward, and my muscles would 
 not obey my will. I thought I was dying, 
 and felt the agony of it ; but then, in an 
 instant, the agony and struggle was over, and 
 a delicious sense of lightness and power took 
 their place. The cold rush of air was no 
 longer cold, but had an exquisite, vivifying 
 effect, as if life itself, from the pure original 
 source, were pouring into my veins. The 
 vitality thus communicated, though intense, 
 was calm and deep ; it prompted to no 
 
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 physical activity, but caused thought and 
 consciousness to enter an interior plane, where 
 they acquired an immense development of 
 scope and penetration. I sat still, and 
 seemed to possess the world. 
 
 From my present point of view, looking 
 from the upper or northern angles of the pen-, 
 tagonal room toward the opposite or southern 
 side, the whole room appeared to arrange itself 
 in a significant manner. The geometrical dia- 
 grams were no longer a mere complexity of 
 unmeaning lines, but combined to form the 
 words of a secret, whose purport solved the 
 ratio between man and nature. The subtile 
 angles of the walls, so perplexing at the first 
 impression, now strengthened the expression 
 of the mystic diagrams, and also suggested 
 that semblance of life in inanimate objects 
 which one finds in the architectural systems 
 of mediasval Italy. 
 
 A delicate gray film of perfumed smoke, 
 
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 similar to that which I had lately drawn from 
 the cigarette, began to climb upwards from 
 some concealed point behind me, and, mar- 
 shalled by the magnetic influence, to move in 
 sinuous courses across the dull blue of the 
 ceiling. I presently perceived that these 
 smoke wreaths harmonised by a sort of affi- 
 nity with the eccentric curves that were in- 
 scribed overhead, and draped them, as it were, 
 in aerial substance, as flesh drapes the human 
 skeleton. 
 
 Meanwhile, the room gradually darkened, 
 or appeared to do so to my eyes ; but the 
 darkness did not prevent the forms on the 
 walls and ceiling from continuing to be visi- 
 ble, though this may have been due merely to 
 the existence of the impression already pro- 
 duced on the retina. The effect of the dark- 
 ness, at all events, was to cause the solid sides 
 of the room, and the roof above, to seem to 
 dissolve and melt away, until I felt like one 
 
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 poised in the depths of space ; but instead of 
 terror, the situation wrought in me an un- 
 speakable exhilaration and security. I recog- 
 nised in the diagrams, the orbits of the plane- 
 tary system, in •which wheeled several worlds 
 whereof science has given no account ; they 
 were at immeasurable distances, outwardly 
 estimated ; but, gazing at them with the eye 
 of thought, I could in a moment perceive 
 every detail of their glorious structure and 
 economy. The smoke wreaths bent down- 
 ward and took shape as the great spirits of 
 the elements ; they held their awful counte- 
 nances averted, but I saw that the iron penta- 
 gon on which I sat was upheld at each corner 
 by their right hands. Whither they bore me 
 I know not, or whether they but held me mo- 
 tionless in the centre of the universe. I had 
 no fear ; only perception. 
 
 All was still veiled in a transparent 
 gloom ; but presently a light like a star was 
 
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 kindled in the west, and gaining power, began 
 to send forth azure streamers like those of the 
 Polar lights, which throbbed and fell and rose 
 again, increasing more and more, until the 
 planets, and the long arcs of their courses, 
 and the remote recesses of the heavens, and 
 the forms of the awful spirits that encom- 
 passed me, were flooded and glorified with the 
 great radiance, and emerged like the soul from 
 the mysterious womb of prenatal being into 
 the living existence of humanity. Accom- 
 panying this change was a sound of music, 
 growing and multiplying, sweet as the warb- 
 ling of iEolian harps, and strong as the thun- 
 der of oceans plunging over bottomless preci- 
 pices. Every sense dilated and vibrated, 
 receiving and concentrating the infinity of 
 sights and sounds in the scope of individual 
 intelligence ; so that I was the universe, 
 and the universe was I. 
 
 With the recognition of this truth the 
 
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 vision of space receded, the outlines of the 
 spirits vanished, and the harmonious tumult 
 of the music culminated in a voice, loud and 
 yet still, speaking the creative word : ' Come 
 forth, and be ! ' I was again in the penta- 
 gonal chamber, sparkling now with the azure 
 lustre of the crystal globe, which kindled the 
 magnetic currents into living rainbows. 
 Looking in the mirror, I saw the black 
 curtain reflected there tremble and part, and 
 from within emerged the form of Hildegarde, 
 dead no longer, but alive and erect. Her 
 eyes had the distraught expression of one 
 aroused from deep sleep. There stood she 
 who had died three days before, breathing 
 and conscious. I saw her image in the glass, 
 but I could not turn my head to see the 
 reality which the glass reflected. 
 
 Her eyes bent themselves upon me, and 
 recognition slowly dawned in them. She 
 seemed about to speak ; but, as her lips 
 
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 parted, they grew pale, and her eyelids 
 quivered and dropped. The black curtain 
 waved, and she sank backwards and vanished 
 behind its folds. I heard a long sigh, and 
 nothing more. 
 
 The azure lustre of the globe grew dim 
 and dimmer, and faded out utterly. There 
 were whispers and soft sweeping movements, 
 and light echoes like departing footsteps. 
 Then came a confused whirring in my brain, 
 growing louder and louder, and again the 
 sickening tremor of the heart, and the 
 struggle for breath. I crouched down, and 
 pressed my hands over my face. 
 
 'You are all right again now,' said the 
 voice of Conrad, speaking in a brisk and 
 cheerful tone. ' Perhaps the current may 
 have been a little too strong. The effects 
 are very similar to those of hashish, are they 
 not?' 
 
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 I looked up. Everything was as it had 
 been at first. But Conrad's face was as 
 white as a sheet, and his green eyes scintil- 
 lated with conscious power. 
 
169 
 
 CHAPTER XL 
 
 LED BY A SPIRIT. 
 
 As soon as I could complete my arrangements 
 to do so, I left Dresden and went to London, 
 What I had experienced in Conrad's chamber 
 may have been partly or wholly a dream or 
 illusion of the senses, similar to the visions 
 of opium and hashish eaters, as Conrad him- 
 self had intimated. And though I sometimes 
 inclined to this view, at other times I could 
 not reconcile it with the intensity and per- 
 manence of the effect produced upon me. 
 No doubt I had fallen into an abnormal state, 
 and much of the surroundings of the event 
 were pure hallucination. The cigarette which 
 Conrad had given me may have been drugged; 
 
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 and I could only conjecture what might be 
 the effects upon the brain of such magnetic 
 or electric currents as his arrangements 
 enabled him to produce. But the two central 
 events of the experience, — that I had seen 
 Hildegarde dead, and had afterwards seen her 
 to all appearances alive, — these things I could 
 not dislodge from my mind. I could not but 
 believe that Conrad — for what end it was vain 
 to ask — was indulging in practices which in 
 old times would have brought him to the 
 stake. Whether his results were achieved by 
 sheer witchcraft, or by some development of 
 the principle of galvanism, were questions 
 into which I did not care to enter ; in either 
 case I considered them brutal and unholy, 
 and I was resolved to tell the whole story to 
 Ralph. He could claim, and would doubtless 
 enforce the right to protect the remains of his 
 dead mistress from outrage. At any rate, I 
 felt bound, as his friend, to let him know 
 
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 what was going on, and so place him in a 
 position to take what course he might deem 
 best. 
 
 The funeral took place before I left town, 
 and though I did not attend as an invited 
 guest, I took means to satisfy myself that 
 Hildegarde's body was in the coffin, and that 
 the coffin was safely deposited in the hand- 
 some tomb which the late Mr. Hertrugge had 
 had built for the accommodation of himself 
 and his posterity. This was so far satisfactory, 
 though, of course, the gates of the sepulchre 
 would be no barrier to a man like Conrad, 
 either physically or morally. 
 
 Ralph had given me his London address, 
 and I called there the evening of my arrival ; 
 but he had left several days before. London is 
 a bad place to hunt for a person in ; but I hap- 
 pened to know that his bankers were the same 
 as mine, so the next morning, I made inquiries 
 there. I then learned that Ralph had joined 
 
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 an expedition commissioned to ' develop ' 
 certain unknown regions of Central Africa ; 
 and his steamer was already several hundred 
 miles on her way to her outward port. 
 
 I had a passing impulse to go after him, 
 for I was feeling rather unsettled myself; but 
 I thought better of it upon reflection. It was 
 a hundred to one that I should not overtake 
 him ; and even if I should chance to run across 
 him in the wilds of the Zambesi, and spin my 
 yarn to him, it would hardly be within his 
 power to take up his march forthwith to Dres- 
 den, nor to get any satisfaction when he arrived 
 there. Accordingly, I gave up all thoughts of 
 the matter, contenting myself by addressing 
 a letter to him at Natal, on the chance of his 
 finding it there ; and then I allowed the whole 
 subject to sink into the latent regions of 
 memory, and occupied myself with other 
 pursuits and interests. 
 
 The very first rumours that came to hand 
 
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 concerning Ralph's expedition, after it had 
 passed beyond the limits of regular communi- 
 cation, were to the effect that it had met with 
 disaster. A tribe, supposed to be friendly, 
 had turned out quite the reverse, and the ex- 
 plorers had all been murdered. Such was the 
 information supplied by a native attached to 
 the expedition, who came back alone to 
 Natal. Nobody believed that the catastrophe 
 was quite as bad as that ; the native un- 
 doubtedly exaggerated ; the European mem- 
 bers of the expedition were more likely 
 to have been carried into captivity than 
 slaughtered. But practically, one fate was 
 about as bad as the other ; for although, on 
 the one hand, captivity admits a chance of 
 escape, yet on the other hand a man who is 
 dead has no further suffering and ignominy to 
 endure. Though I did not admit it to myself, 
 I presently came to the conclusion that Ralph 
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 a captive ; and it was a fascinating subject 
 of speculation whether his spirit had met 
 Hildegarde's in the other world, and had 
 found happiness with her. 
 
 My affairs took me to the United States ; 
 I remained there over a year, chiefly in the 
 western and north-western regions. I came 
 into business relations with some English 
 capitalists, who were interested in mining 
 stock, and at length I found it expedient to 
 return to London to confer with them. Reach- 
 ing New York on my way eastwards, I put 
 up at a hotel near Madison Square (my travel- 
 ling expenses were defrayed by the English 
 syndicate), and after a shave and a change of 
 clothes, I walked out under the trees of the 
 square. It was late of a warm June afternoon. 
 In the centre of the square were benches, sur- 
 rounding a circular fountain basin. I sat 
 down on one of these benches, noticing as I 
 did so the preoccupied attitude of its only 
 
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 other occupant, a lean, athletic, middle-aged 
 man, with a short stiff beard, and black hair, 
 partly grizzled. A wide-brimmed Panama 
 sombrero was pulled down over his forehead ; 
 he leaned forward, with his elbows on his 
 knees, and his chin in his hands, gazing in- 
 tently at — nothing. I took him to be a 
 wealthy Cuban or Mexican, meditating over 
 the lost Spanish empire, or wondering how 
 Dolores was getting along in his absence. I 
 suppose I looked at him rather oftener than 
 he thought necessary, for he suddenly roused 
 himself and turned an impatient glance upon 
 me. But his expression at once changed, and 
 he said with a smile : 
 
 ' You are at your old tricks still ! Is there 
 anything in the world that can escape your 
 eyes and your knowledge? ' 
 
 ' You are not Ralph. Merlin ! ' I said. 
 
 ' No,' he answered, ' but I used to be.' 
 
 I will not attempt to detail our talk ; I 
 
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 am finishing a story, not beginning one. He 
 told me how his party had been attacked ; 
 how he was wounded and captured ; how he 
 had been assigned as a slave to a certain 
 powerful chief; how he had ultimately ac- 
 quired such ascendancy over the chief and the 
 tribe, that he was requested to take the reins 
 of government into his own hands, to which 
 he assented ; and to marry the retiring chiefs 
 daughter, to which he demurred. He drew an 
 amusing picture spretce injuries formce, — how 
 the sable queen pursued him with her spite 
 and jealousy, — ' my ill-luck followed me even 
 to mid Africa ! ' he added with a smile, — 
 until she made his life a burden to him ; and 
 whereas, but for her, he might have settled 
 down to pass the rest of his life among these 
 savages, as it was, he determined to escape. 
 The story of this retreat of one man through 
 a thousand or more miles of pathless and hos- 
 tile country was at least as interesting as the 
 
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 celebrated Anabasis of tbe Ten Thousand 
 described by Xenopbon. And when, at last, 
 he could exclaim with the old Greeks : 
 ' Thalassa ! Thalassa ! ' he found himself on 
 a part of the coast very remote indeed from 
 that on which he had landed nearly eighteen 
 months before. He had fallen in with a 
 Portuguese vessel bound for Ceylon, on a 
 rambling roundabout voyage ; she was run 
 down in mid-ocean by a British liner on the 
 way to Australia ; at Melbourne he had taken 
 passage on an American ship going to Hono- 
 lulu, and thence he had journeyed by the 
 regular steamer to San Francisco, and so 
 across the continent to the bench in Madison 
 Square where I found him. 
 
 This tale, as related by Kalph, was of ab- 
 sorbing and various interest, and lasted us 
 back to the hotel, through dinner and well 
 into the evening. But, all along, I had a 
 feeling that Ralph was leaving something out, 
 
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 and that this something, moreover, embodied 
 the real gist of the whole matter. Again and 
 again, there came a gap, or an abrupt transi- 
 tion in the narrative ; or he would begin a 
 sentence, and leave it uncompleted, and say 
 another thing altogether. Now, I wanted the 
 whole story. 
 
 ' Are you going to complete your circuit 
 of the earth ? ' I asked him. ' I am on my 
 way to London ; and we might run over from 
 there to Dresden, and look up Conrad.' 
 
 The room — my sitting room at the hotel 
 — was almost dark ; we had not lighted the 
 gas, and the only light came through the 
 transom over the door. At the moment I 
 spoke, I noticed a faint but unmistakable per- 
 fume in the room, as of some ethereal spice. 
 Ralph had made no reply to my suggestion ; 
 and after his silence had lasted a minute or 
 two, I turned to see whether he had fallen 
 asleep. 
 
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 No ; he was not asleep. He was sitting 
 erect in his chair, leaning a little forward. In 
 the dim light I could see that his great gray- 
 eyes were wide open, and the heavy black 
 brows somewhat lifted. There was a sort of 
 solemn ecstasy in his expression ; his gaze 
 was directed intently towards the eastern 
 corner of the room, which was occupied by 
 nothing that I could see but a tall mahogany 
 wardrobe. It was not at the warbrobe that 
 Ralph was gazing, nor at anything else visible 
 to normal eyesight. His whole soul was in 
 the look ; and he was utterly unconscious of 
 me, and of everything material in his sur- 
 roundings. His lips moved ; he seemed to be 
 speaking, but with an inward voice that car- 
 ried no sound. He moved his head as if 
 signifying assent ; a moment later the rapt 
 expression faded out ; the peculiar fragrance 
 ceased to be perceptible ; he passed his hands 
 across his eyes, shifted his position in his 
 
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 chair, and said with a half laugh, ' I'm afraid 
 you think me dull company ? ' 
 
 ' Anything but that ! ' I replied. ' But — ■ 
 we were not alone just now.' 
 
 ' Did you see anything ? ' he demanded, 
 so quickly and imperatively as to show that 
 he was deeply startled. 
 
 ' I did not see what you did,' returned I, 
 ' but I saw you see it.' 
 
 He got up, struck a match, lit the gas, and 
 took a turn or two about the room. ' Well,' 
 he said at length, resuming his chair, 'you 
 have stood so near me in certain crises of my 
 life, that I may as well let you into my secret 
 — especially as you have probably half guessed 
 it already. But there is more to it than that. 
 For the last year, or thereabouts, I have sus- 
 pected that I am insane ; I should be nearly 
 certain of it, but that I am neither more nor 
 less insane than I was at the beginning. Now 
 
LED BY A SPIRIT 18 1 
 
 I shall be very glad to have the dispassionate 
 opinion of a man like you on my case. 
 
 'Just now, I saw Hildegarde and con- 
 versed with her. I saw her as plainly as I 
 now see you, though the gas was not lighted 
 then. By no test that I am able to devise 
 could I distinguish between her reality and 
 yours, for instance. I see her, I hear her, she 
 is even sensible to my touch — or so it seems 
 to me. During her presence, no doubt enters 
 my mind that it is not Hildegarde, her very 
 self; and yet, immediately before and after, I 
 am as well aware as you are that the thing is 
 utterly impossible. Hildegarde's body has 
 been for nearly two years in the grave ; her 
 spirit must long since have passed through the 
 spiritual world, and entered heaven as an 
 angel. Therefore this vision must be a sheer 
 mental hallucination, not based on any 
 spiritual truth, but a spectre of insanity. I 
 
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 have argued it out a hundred times, and can 
 come to no other conclusion.' 
 
 ' This is not the first time you have seen 
 her, then ? ' 
 
 ' No, not by many. Her appearances 
 have been the central fact of my life since I 
 first resolved to escape from my African prin- 
 cipality and come home. Indeed, it was she 
 who, the first time I saw her, urged me to go. 
 I was sitting at the door of my hut ; all the 
 others were asleep ; the forest was still, 
 except for the distant roaring of a lion. I 
 had been, thinking that, my life being so 
 objectless and valueless, I might as well live 
 it in one way as another, and that it would 
 perhaps be best to marry this black princess 
 who had so set her heart upon me, and breed 
 a race of savage kings who should live and 
 rule and die innocent of the triumphs and 
 shames of our civilisation. Then I looked 
 up ; and out of the darkest aisle of the tropic 
 
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 wood I saw Hildegarde come towards me. 
 She came quite close to me, with her eyes 
 upon mine ; I was neither amazed nor afraid ; 
 it was as if I had expected her. She raised 
 her right hand, on which was the opal ring I 
 gave her, and pointed to the east. " You must 
 leave this and go, Ralph," she said. " I will tell 
 you the day when you must start, and 1 will 
 guide you to the sea." I answered that I 
 would be ready ; and she passed to my left 
 round the corner of the hut, As soon as she 
 was gone, the amazement and fear came ; I 
 sprang up to follow her, but I could not find 
 her. For two days I waited, and she did not 
 return. I began to say to myself that I had 
 dreamed. But on the third night I slept ; 
 and in the midst of my sleep I felt a touch on 
 my face, and she was there. I arose and 
 followed her ; we passed through the village ; 
 she showed me my course by the stars, and 
 suddenly I was alone. But I went on till 
 
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 morning ; and if ever I got astray from the 
 path, I fancied I felt a touch directing me 
 aright. So it was for many days, and I came 
 to trust in her as the sailor trusts to his com- 
 pass. Often she warned me of perils that 
 would otherwise have destroyed me. I 
 gained the coast, as you know, and reached 
 this place by devious routes. To-night she 
 told me that my journey was not ended yet ; 
 I am still to go eastward, and now in your 
 company. And yet — all this is insanity ! ' 
 
 ' But you are not insane,' I replied ; ' you 
 are not even suffering from monomania. 
 Monomaniacs cannot reason about their in- 
 firmity, or perceive that it is abnormal. Your 
 experience cannot be explained on that 
 ground.' 
 
 ' There is no other explanation, however,' 
 remarked he. 
 
 ' There are hundreds of thousands of 
 persons who will assure you that the thing is 
 
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 in accordance with known principles of life. 
 They will tell you that the spirits of the 
 dead can revisit those they love, to warn and 
 guide them. They would regard your case as 
 a model example of their belief. Why should 
 not you believe.it too? ' 
 
 ' Sooner than accept that theory,' replied 
 Ealph, ' I prefer the alternative of my own 
 insanity. The spirits that respond to our 
 invitations are but the complement of our 
 own foolish and impious curiosity. They, are 
 the undigested fragments of humanity, swim- 
 ming in the cosmic stomach, as yet neither 
 cast irrevocably to waste, nor taken up into 
 the blood of heaven. Hildegarde is not such 
 an one ; nor, if she were, should I recognise 
 her, or she me. I was clear on that head 
 long before this experience began, and I can- 
 not abandon my conviction now, to gratify a 
 personal longing.' 
 
 ' Is there nothing in the Buddhistic creed 
 
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 to meet your want?' I asked. ' Do you put 
 no faith in their analysis of man? Might not 
 this apparition be the astral form of Hilde- 
 garde, which her love projects towards you? ' 
 Ralph shook his head. ' I am not compe- 
 tent to judge of the Hindoo philosophy,' he 
 remarked ; ' but even if their scheme has any 
 truth in it, it would not apply to this case. 
 The astral form is the emanation and emis- 
 sary of a living human being. Hildegarde 
 being dead, has, according to them, passed 
 into the state of Devachan, there to remain 
 until the period of her next incarnation ; and 
 whatever of her so-called fourth principle 
 remains in the astral light, would be inca- 
 pable of any independent action. But 
 Conrad and I have often discussed the whole 
 subject, and I never could feel any assurance 
 that the entire Buddhistic system is anything 
 more than an ingenious and supple series of 
 inventions to meet each difficulty as it arises.' 
 
LED BY A SPIRIT 187 
 
 Hereupon I felt that if there were ever to 
 be a time when the story of my experiences 
 with Conrad was to be of any avail to Ralph, 
 that time was now come. Accordingly, I 
 began with the mysterious episode at Schan- 
 dau ; I recounted, in passing, my conversa- 
 tion with Burlace about Catalina's interest in 
 his investigation of disease germs ; and 
 pointed out the sinister light which, in my 
 opinion, it seemed to cast upon Hildegarde's 
 sudden seizure by one of these very diseases. 
 I spoke of Catalina's scarcely disguised ac- 
 knowledgment of the justice of my suspicions, 
 and her defiant attitude. Then I described 
 Conrad's strange lightsomeness of demeanour, 
 his half-jesting conversation, his invitation to 
 me to visit his study, — and the sight I beheld 
 behind the black curtain. 
 
 Ralph had listened, thus far, without a 
 movement or response of any kind, even 
 when I suggested that Hildegarde had been 
 
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 poisoned by her step-mother. He was never 
 wont to be disturbed by the irrevocable. But 
 at this point I perceived a change in the 
 manner of his listening ; his breathing, now 
 held back to hear, and now taken in a 
 quick sigh ; and the slight involuntary shift- 
 ings of his attitude, betrayed how strained 
 was his attention. I went on to portray, as 
 best I could, the extraordinary phantasma- 
 goria that had followed in the pentagonal 
 chamber, culminating in the appearance of 
 Hildegarde herself, in her habit as she lived ; 
 her seeming recognition of me, and how, 
 before she could speak, the hand of death had 
 fastened on her once more. 
 
 ' I did not know what to think of it then, 
 and I don't know now,' I concluded. ' But 
 since hearing your story, I cannot help think- 
 ing that Conrad may have some explanations 
 to make which it would be worth your while 
 to listen to.' 
 
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 ' Possibly ! ' murmured Ealph, absently ; 
 ' possibly ! ' Presently he got up and took 
 bis bat. ' I must think over this,' he said. 
 ' There may be a chance yet for my sanity. 
 And yet it might be wiser to leave that in 
 doubt, and go no further ! ' 
 
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 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 TWO MEN. 
 
 The next day but one, Ralph, and I were 
 passengers on a steamship of the Bremen 
 line. These steamers stop at Southampton. 
 I left the vessel at that port, and went on 
 by rail to London. Ralph was to continue 
 the voyage to Bremen, and then proceed to 
 Dresden. 
 
 I expected to be detained in London a 
 week. After that, I promised Ralph that I 
 would follow him to the Saxon capital. He 
 made a point of this ; he seemed anxious to 
 have a friendly supporter at hand. 
 
 On the trip over, we had uniformly 
 avoided the topic that must have been upper- 
 
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 most in his mind. "We conversed on general 
 matters ; and I noticed that Kalph's character 
 had mellowed and deepened since the old 
 Dresden days. His intellectual strength and 
 mastery were as signal as before, but his 
 eagerness and love of conflict were gone ; and 
 he no longer looked forward to the world's 
 future and his own, as he was used to do. 
 He seemed more willing to learn than to 
 teach. He spent much time in reverie. The 
 masculine sternness of his face was, at such 
 periods, touchingly softened ; I could read in 
 its lines something of his experience that he 
 had never told me ; the thoughts and emo- 
 tions that had turned his hair gray before its 
 time. But again, I caught from his eyes a 
 light of unfulfilled purpose and anticipation. 
 There was still something for him to do or 
 suffer — God knew what. 
 
 One of the first persons I met in London 
 was Burlace. He was altered, and for the 
 
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 worse. His loud, obstreperous voice had be- 
 come morose and complaining ; his face was 
 pale and relaxed ; his bearing, instead of 
 being aggressive and brisk, was sullen and 
 lurching ; when I saw him he was slouch- 
 ing down the Strand with a short pipe 
 hanging from the corner of his mouth ; and 
 I had not heard him speak a dozen words 
 before I surmised that he had been too familiar 
 with gin. 
 
 However, he seemed glad to see me, and 
 as anxious to talk as if he had been restricted 
 to his own company for months, I tried to 
 postpone the interview until such time as he 
 should be in a less liquorish humour ; but he 
 would not be put off, and dragged me down a 
 side alley to a dingy little inn, where he 
 assured me I could get the best Hollands in 
 town. ' I know the folks here,' he remarked, 
 ' and they keep a special tap for me.' So we 
 had Hollands and birds-eye tobacco and dirt. 
 
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 And Burlace said, ' Say, old man, here's a 
 c'nundrum. Am I married or single ? ' 
 
 ' You may see double,' I replied, ' but you 
 were made for a bachelor, and you are one.' 
 
 ' When you said I was made for a bachelor, 
 you did not think I had lived to be married — 
 did you, now ? But married I am, all the 
 same, though it's true I've lived a bachelor 
 ever since.' 
 
 ' Come,' I said, ' you don't know what 
 you're saying.' 
 
 He struck his great paw on the table. ' I 
 am married, I tell you — to Catalina, widow of 
 the late Herman Hertrugge, of Dresden. If 
 you don't believe it, go there and find out. 
 She can't deny it — God damn her ! ' 
 
 He stared at me with inflamed eyes, and 
 wagged his head. 
 
 ' Where is your wife ? ' I inquired. 
 
 ' In Hell, for all I know ; but when I saw 
 her last she was in her drawing-room in Dres- 
 
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 den. Look here, old man, you've always been 
 a friend of mine ; I'll tell you the story.' I 
 need not reproduce any further the manner of 
 his speech ; but his story was strange enough. 
 He had proposed to Catalina on the day before 
 Hildegarde's betrothal reception, and she had 
 agreed to marry him after her step-daughter's 
 wedding should have taken place, ' if she lives 
 to be wedded ! ' she had added, in a jesting 
 way. He knew the terms of the will, and un- 
 derstood her to mean that she would marry 
 him any way. After Hildegarde's death he 
 reminded her of her promise, and the day was 
 fixed. The wedding was to be a quiet one, in 
 the bride's house ; Conrad had shown himself 
 well disposed to the affair, and all looked pros- 
 perous. The guests came ; the priest called 
 the bride and groom before him, and pro- 
 nounced the words that made them man and 
 wife. But no sooner had the final vows been 
 spoken, than Catalina uttered a terrible shriek, 
 
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 and fainted. Every one was disconcerted; 
 only Conrad retained his presence of mind ; he 
 explained to the guests that his step-mother 
 had been labouring under considerable nervous 
 excitement during several days previous, and 
 that this was a not unnatural culmination of 
 her condition. The decks having been thus 
 cleared, Catalina was taken to her room, and 
 presently revived. She still manifested unac- 
 countable agitation ; and when her new hus- 
 band ventured to propose that they should 
 get into their carriage and begin their 
 wedding journey, she trembled so violently 
 that he feared another fainting fit, and post- 
 poned the matter until the afternoon. By that 
 time, Catalina seemed to have recovered her 
 nerve ; she put on her travelling dress and 
 came down-stairs, laughing at her late indis- 
 position, and declaring that she had never felt 
 better. The carriage was at the kerb ; she 
 came out leaning on her husband's arm, and 
 
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 his heart was overflowing with delightful an- 
 ticipations. The footman opened the carriage 
 door, and Catalina's foot was on the step. 
 
 There was nothing at all in the carriage 
 except the cushions ; but Catalina suddenly 
 stopped and grew as rigid as iron, and the 
 hand which Burlace held in his became icy- 
 cold. She made no outcry, but her face 
 assumed an expression that made even Bur- 
 lace's lusty blood run cold. Her lips parted, 
 and she seemed to gasp for air ; then a tremor 
 shook her from head to foot, and she fell back 
 in her husband's arms. He thought she had 
 died of a stroke of the heart, and, with the 
 assistance of the footman, carried her back 
 into the house. He and Conrad worked over 
 her for an hour, and at last succeeded in bring- 
 ing her back to consciousness. But now her 
 courage and self-control seemed utterly broken 
 down ; she was as weak and garrulous .as an 
 invalid child ; she exhibited terror whenever 
 
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 Burlace approached her, and shuddered when 
 he addressed her. She either could or would 
 not give any explanation of her state. Even- 
 ing came on, and it was necessary to give up 
 all idea of starting on their trip that day. 
 Catalina remained in her room in charge of a 
 nurse, and Burlace, refusing Conrad's offer of 
 a cot-bed in the library, went to an hotel and 
 spent his wedding night there. 
 
 The next morning he presented himself at 
 the house, and was told that his wife would 
 see him. He went to her room, and found her 
 propped up with pillows on her bed. She 
 was alone, and signed to him to sit down. He 
 drew up a chair, but she begged him in a ner- 
 vous tone not to sit so near. 
 
 She told him that she could never live 
 with him as his wife. She evaded giving any 
 definite or comprehensible reason for this 
 decision, but said that any attempt to fulfil 
 her marriage duties would, she was well con- 
 
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 vinced, result in her death.. He pressed her 
 energetically to be more explicit ; she became 
 pitifully agitated, and the words that fell from 
 her seemed to mean, if they meant anything, 
 that she fancied herself to have committed some 
 hideous crime, and that she had received a 
 ■warning from the grave. He expostulated, 
 entreated, even stormed and raged, in vain. 
 He swore that he would take her with him by 
 force, at which she burst into an hysteric 
 laugh, and asked him if he were stronger than 
 death ? Later, she offered to make any ar- 
 rangement as regarded money matters that he 
 chose to suggest, even to surrendering three- 
 fourths of her fortune ; but with this Burlace 
 would have nothing to do. He would have 
 her or nothing. He left her at last, she being 
 in a condition of semi-collapse, and he in a frame 
 of mind half way between the murderous and 
 the suicidal. He rambled about the streets 
 all day and night ; the morning following he 
 
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 came back to the house, determined to enforce 
 his rights. 
 
 He was met by Conrad, who told him that 
 Catalina had left Dresden. He said that he 
 believed her mind was affected ; that she 
 appeared to imagine she was haunted or 
 pursued by a malignant spirit. ' So far as 
 I can make out,' Conrad had added, ' she has 
 got a notion that she was somehow instru- 
 mental in bringing about the death of my 
 sister Hildegarde, and she goes so far as to allude 
 to you as if you were her accomplice in the 
 affair. It is ridiculous, of course ; and her ad- 
 hering to it is evidence of her mental unsound- 
 ness.' Conrad had gone on to say that Cata- 
 lina had extracted a promise from him not to 
 reveal to Burlace the place of her retreat ; but 
 he held out hopes .that she would, if allowed 
 to remain in quiet for awhile, regain her 
 equipoise, and that their married felicity would 
 then resume an uninterrupted course. Bur- 
 
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 lace, utterly worn out in brain and body, was 
 unable to struggle any longer ; he gave Con- 
 rad an address where to write to him in case 
 of any favourable change ; then he threw him- 
 self into a train and came to London. 
 
 ' And I've been here ever since,' he added, 
 emptying his fourth glass of Hollands, and 
 staring sullenly at the dregs in the bottom. 
 { But I understand the whole damned swindle 
 now. She was in love with that fellow Ealph 
 Merlin, and she is scheming to get him. It's 
 all very clever and cunning. Maybe she did 
 murder Hildegarde ; I remember she came 
 one day to look through my microscope ; and 
 there was some stuff about that would have 
 poisoned half Dresden, and no one the wiser. 
 The girl was in her way, and it would be 
 natural enough. I don't know where Ralph 
 is ; but if ever I find that he has been within 
 reach of her I'll squeeze the life out of her 
 white throat with these fingers of mine ! ' He 
 
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 held them up before me, in his sullen, drunken 
 rage. ' But all that about her being haunted, 
 and her fainting and shrieking, — that was all 
 lies and humbug. They had made a fool of me 
 between 'em ; but the end has not come yet. 
 Look here ! do you know where Ralph is ? ' 
 
 He thrust his face abruptly into mine as 
 he asked the question, as if he were ready to 
 suspect me of being in the ' plot' against him. 
 Although I did not attach much weight to his 
 maunderings, and was rather disposed to 
 think that a dose of Ralph might prove a good 
 thing for him, I prevaricated to the extent of 
 reminding him that Ralph's death had been 
 reported a year ago, and that if he had re- 
 turned to life since, I had seen no mention of 
 it in the newspapers. But Burlace had by 
 this time lost the faculty of holding a conse- 
 cutive train of thought ; he diverged on one 
 topic after another, and finally broke into 
 sobs, and called me to witness how he wor- 
 
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 shipped Catalina. ' I don't care what she did,' 
 he cried, sticking his big knuckles in his eyes, 
 like a schoolboy ; ' if she had cut the girl's 
 throat with a carving-knife, I'd have married 
 her just as quick. I love her ; and when 
 that's said, everything's said — isn't it ? She 
 might be as wicked as she likes. What's 
 wickedness, what's morality, I'd like to 
 know ? Do you remember my thermometer? 
 I believe in nothing ; you know that ; not in 
 God, nor Devil. But I loved that woman as 
 no one else ever loved her, or ever will. She'll 
 find it out some day. I'd have stood by her 
 in anything, no matter what — good or bad. 
 I'm a good fellow, too, — or I was, before this 
 happened. I'm a drunkard and a good-for- 
 nothing loafer now ; I know that as well as 
 you do ; and she did it. Well, that's all 
 right. Have some more gin ? Where are 
 you stopping here ? ' 
 
 I gave him my address, not expecting him 
 
TWO MEN 203 
 
 to remember it, and soon after left him. 
 What he had said of himself was true ; he 
 was a man of good natural abilities, and no 
 mean accomplishments. But he believed in 
 nothing ; and therefore a woman had been 
 able to ruin him. 
 
 A few days later I received a letter from 
 Ralph, with the Dresden post-mark. ' Come 
 here as soon as you can leave your business,' 
 he wrote. ' I have seen Conrad ; in fact, he 
 met me at the train, and seemed to have 
 known I was coming. You know his foible 
 is to seem to know everything beforehand ; 
 and certainly he has queer gifts. I have told 
 him nothing of my experience ; but some 
 things he has said appear to indicate that he 
 is somehow cognisant of it. I believe Cata- 
 lina is in Dresden, or not far away from it ; I 
 have not seen her, and don't suppose I shall. 
 Conrad tells me she was married to Burlace, 
 but has never lived with him ; I don't know 
 
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 the reason of either fact. Next week, Conrad 
 intends to have some sort of a reception at his 
 house. I have a notion that this occasion 
 will have an especial significance for me ; and 
 I want you to be present.' After alluding to 
 some other subjects, he said, ' I have had no 
 visions since arriving here ; but nevertheless 
 there has been a constant sense of Hilde- 
 garde's proximity. I feel as if I should 
 learn more about her soon ; and yet I feel as 
 if it might be best, both for her and for me, 
 if I left Dresden at once and for ever. But if 
 so, I lack the resolution to act upon the im- 
 pression. I shall see the matter to its end, 
 let it issue how it will. And I depend on 
 you.' 
 
 I arrived in Dresden on the morning of 
 the day of Conrad's proposed reception. I 
 was driven to the Hotel Bellevue ; but finding 
 it full, I told the kutscher to take me to the 
 Hotel de Saxe. There, somewhat to my per- 
 
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 plexity, I found rooms already engaged for 
 me, and a note from Conrad, asking me to 
 give him the pleasure of my company that 
 evening. 
 
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 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 AN EXPERIMENT. 
 
 The time appointed for me to present myself 
 at Conrad's was an hour or so earlier than for 
 the other guests ; and when I entered I found 
 only him and Ralph. I had met the latter 
 earlier in the day. Conrad greeted me with 
 much cordiality. 
 
 ' Ralph and. I have been at our old work,' 
 he said, laughing ; ' we have resumed our duel 
 in the realms of the transcendental. My con- 
 viction is that life has a much closer relation 
 to the body than extremists on the other side 
 are willing to admit. The body, we are agreed, 
 is the direct creation of the soul, and only in- 
 directly that of God — I am availing myself of 
 
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 my opponent's terminology — whose proper 
 activity begins and ends with the soul only. 
 God produces only what is, namely, man the 
 spirit ; and His creative attitude towards this 
 spirit results in what appears to be, namely, 
 the body of man, and the rest of the material 
 universe. Now, my point is this : — what we 
 call the mortal life of a person is the persist- 
 ence, for a certain period in the case of that 
 person, of this result of a creative attitude 
 which is permanent as regards mankind at 
 large. In other words, though man is con- 
 stantly incarnate, individual human beings 
 are constantly disincarnating, or, as we say, 
 dying. The question then arises, what is the 
 cause of this individual disincarnation, and 
 can it be arrested?' 
 
 ' Individuals die, because individuals are 
 born,' said Ealph ' Mankind does not die, 
 because there was never a time when it did 
 not exist.' 
 
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 Conceding that for the moment,' returned 
 Conrad, ' the more practical problem remains, 
 can death be arrested? If the body only 
 seems to be, at best, why may not that seem- 
 ing be indefinitely prolonged? Is it not true 
 that death is, essentially, a change in the soul, 
 — the arrival of a moment when one. phase of 
 its activity terminates, and another phase 
 begins ? Evidently, then, if we wish to post- 
 pone death, we must direct our efforts first to 
 the soul. We must devise some means by 
 which the soul can be induced or compelled 
 to delay entering upon its second phase, and 
 to continue in its first or physical one. Are 
 you bold enough to affirm that such a fact is 
 beyond the skill of human science? ' 
 
 ' Suppose the body to have been blown to 
 atoms by an explosion,' I began ; but he in- 
 terrupted me with a laugh. 
 
 ' I adm^t technical difficulties in such a 
 case,' said he ; ' though less, perhaps, as re- 
 
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 gards the physical than the spiritual predica- 
 ment ; for do not our friends, the spiritualists, 
 tell us tales about " materialising " spirits ? 
 But take the case that the body, at the mo- 
 ment of the change, is substantially sound, 
 though (let us say) it has been attacked by a 
 fatal disease, — or, to speak more philosophic- 
 ally, the soul has suffered from certain delu- 
 sions which are reflected on the physical plane 
 as derangement of bodily function, or disin- 
 tegration of tissue. My contention would be 
 that the correction of this delusion would 
 restore the soul (and, as a corollary, the body) 
 to a normal state, and re-establish physical 
 life.' 
 
 ' Well,' said Ealph — and he threw a pecu- 
 liar glance at me as he spoke — ' that seems to 
 be a sufficiently ingenious theory. Have you 
 any practical illustrations to adduce in 
 support of it?' 
 
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 my good logic with, imperfect facts,' returned 
 Conrad, laughing again ; ' but are you really 
 desirous to push, the matter to a test? ' 
 
 ' To be frank with you,' Ralph rejoined, 
 ' I do desire it, and I do not. If such a thing 
 as you propose can be done, I hold it to be a 
 profanation of the most unmitigated sort, — 
 the black art in its worst form. At the same 
 time, I am weak enough to put you to the 
 proof ; if you can do it, let it be done.' 
 
 ' Your invitation might be more cordial,' 
 remarked Conrad, lightly. ' As to the black 
 art, my dear Ralph, you know it is not at all 
 in my line. My investigations, such as they 
 are, have been strictly on the lines laid down 
 by Nature. I am only a beginner in science ; 
 but I think I have one advantage over scien- 
 tific men in general, in that I recognise and 
 make my account with both sides of Nature, 
 instead of with the physical side exclusively. 
 Study of the one throws light upon the other, 
 
AN EXPERIMENT 211 
 
 and speculations on the spirit suggest experi- 
 ments on the body. But you shall judge for 
 yourself; and, by the way, I have a right to 
 expect indulgence in this case, from you 
 especially. Step into my study.' 
 
 He led the way, and we followed. The 
 pentagonal chamber looked much as it did 
 when I had seen it last ; but now a handsome 
 antique chest of carved oak rested upon the 
 iron pentagon beneath the great magnet. It 
 was secured by three massive locks. 
 
 ' This chest,' observed Conrad, ' has not 
 been opened since I closed it nearly two years 
 ago. You have only my word for this ; but 
 I will say that I have no object in deceiving 
 you. Here are the keys,' he added, taking 
 them from a hook on the wall ; ' will you 
 oblige me, Ralph, by unlocking the thing, and 
 lifting the lid ? ' 
 
 Ralph hesitated a moment, as if summon- 
 ing his resolution. Then he took the keys 
 
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 from Conrad's hand, and turned them, one 
 after the other, in the locks. After another 
 pause, he grasped the edges of the lid with 
 both hands, and flung it back with such vio- 
 lence that it was torn from its hinges, and 
 fell with a crash to the floor. A powerful 
 aromatic odour immediately filled the room. 
 
 The coffer was filled to the brim with 
 some substance resembling amber, in pieces 
 about the size of a raisin. It was from this, 
 apparently, that the pleasant odour emanated. 
 But what struck me particularly was the fact 
 that this odour, though much stronger, was 
 the same that I had noticed in my room in 
 New York, at the time when Ralph was 
 visited by the vision of Hildegarde ; and I 
 perceived that Ralph recognised it also, and 
 his face flushed red. He looked at Conrad 
 with a sort of fierceness. 
 
 ' What is this ? ' he demanded. ' Play me 
 no tricks.' 
 
AN EXPERIMENT 213 
 
 'It's merely a variety of aromatic gum,' 
 returned Conrad, in a matter-of-fact tone, 
 ' which I placed here on account of its puri- 
 fying and preservative qualities. It lies, as 
 you see, in a shallow tray, and can be removed 
 without trouble.' He suited the action to the 
 word, lifting out the tray, which he laid to 
 one side. The space beneath appeared to be 
 closely packed with folded cloths, of the tex- 
 ture of fine lawn, and having a pale, yellow 
 hue, probably due to some solution in which 
 they had been steeped. As Ealph remained 
 motionless, Conrad proceeded to remove these 
 cloths one by one, until he had uncovered a 
 long object, of roughly cylindrical shape, 
 swathed in a covering of heavy linen, sewn 
 up lengthwise down the centre. Its out- 
 lines conveyed the suggestion of the human 
 form. 
 
 ' Have either of you a pen-knife ? ' in- 
 quired Conrad. ' We shall have to rip open 
 
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 this covering in order to come at what is 
 inside.' 
 
 Kalph still made no sign. I took my 
 knife from my pocket, and, at a nod from 
 Conrad, cut the thread of the seam from end 
 to end. The covering fell apart. 
 
 There was a filling of dried rose leaves 
 within ; but these sifted down on either side, 
 and revealed — what, of course, I had all along 
 expected to see — the pure, pale countenance 
 of Hildegarde. 
 
 ' What do you think ? ' said Conrad, ap- 
 pealing to me, as a sculptor might ask my 
 opinion of his statue. ' I can see no change ; 
 can you ? ' 
 
 ' None ! ' said I. 
 
 ' And. indeed, after the lapse of these two 
 years, she seemed as fresh and untouched as 
 on the day when she stood beside Ralph as 
 his betrothed wife. The skin seemed soft and 
 pliant ; the long eyelashes, resting on the 
 
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 cheeks, needed but a thought to lift them ; 
 and the curved line between the lips would 
 melt at a breath. And yet, for two years, no 
 breath had passed them, nor had any light 
 visited the eyes. 
 
 ' What say you, my friend ? ' asked 
 Conrad, regarding Ralph curiously. 
 
 ' It is a wonderful piece of work,' he re- 
 turned, in a measured voice. ' Not so warm 
 as a painting, nor so ideal as sculpture ; but 
 the Egyptians themselves could not have done 
 better. Of what use is it ? ' 
 
 ' Her soul might find a use for it,' re- 
 marked the other, with a smile. 
 
 ' What God has parted cannot be reunited,' 
 said Ralph, coldly. 
 
 ' But you loved her, did you not ? and 
 love, if all reports be true, is stronger than 
 death. Will you test the proverb ? ' 
 
 ' No ; not even if I knew that love could 
 work the miracle. She and I will meet here- 
 
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 after ; but I should not deserve her love, if, 
 for the sake of comforting my few years of 
 earth, I called her back from heaven.' 
 
 These words were spoken in a low voice, 
 Weighted with emotion ; and as he spoke, he 
 turned away. 
 
 Conrad shrugged his shoulders. ' That is 
 well said, Ralph,' he observed ; ' but, after all, 
 you are moralising over what you believe to 
 be an impossibility. If you were convinced 
 that she would rise up at your Word, like 
 Lazarus in the New Testament, I fancy the 
 word would not be wanting. Well, then, 
 since love refuses, let us see what science can 
 do ! I have more faith than you, though this 
 is an experiment based, hitherto, upon theory 
 alone.' 
 
 He stepped to the upper corner of the 
 room and touched a small disk embedded 
 there ; and immediately there followed a 
 gentle whispering sound which I dimly re- 
 
AN EXPERIMENT 217 
 
 membered, and the great magnet began to 
 discharge its vital energy. The invisible 
 current swept downwards on the peaceful face 
 beneath it; and we, who stood apart, felt 
 something of the exhilarating coolness. The 
 dried leaves of the roses that were heaped 
 along the sides of the figure were stirred ; and 
 it seemed to me that some of them lost their 
 dryness, and that their original softness and 
 colour came back to them. 
 
 Conrad kept his strange eyes rivetted on 
 the face in the coffer with an intensity of gaze 
 that almost seemed to emit a visible ray. 
 Ralph's eyes were downcast, and partly 
 averted ; but he was evidently struggling 
 against a terrible attraction ; the tender, 
 human instincts of his nature were fighting 
 against the barrier of principle and reason. 
 Time both flies and stands still at such junc- 
 tures ; the great magnet vibrated ; and now 
 it was beyond doubt that some of the petals 
 
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 of the roses were as fresh as when first shaken 
 from the stem. But the peaceful face was 
 peaceful and unresponsive still. 
 
 Those moments of suspense were exhaust- 
 ing, even to me, who was but an onlooker. 
 The possibility that hung in the balance was 
 of such gigantic significance — the very mean- 
 ing of human existence seeming to hinge 
 upon it — that the mind shrank from contem- 
 plating it. And now that the experiment 
 had gone so far, success and failure appeared 
 alike terrible. 
 
 Suddenly, Conrad raised both his arms, 
 with the hands open and prone, and brought 
 them downwards, and then again upwards, 
 with a slow, sweeping movement. He was 
 standing near the foot of the coffer, so that 
 the gesture was as if he had caught some 
 invisible substance in the air, and driven it 
 over the dead girl, from her feet to her head. 
 He repeated this gesture three times ; and at 
 
AN EXPERIMENT 219 
 
 the same moment the discharge from the 
 magnet ceased, the rushing sound was heard 
 no more, and the chamber became as still as 
 an Egyptian tomb in the heart of a hill. 
 
 Conrad's arms fell to his sides ; he shi- 
 vered, and a grayish pallor crept over his 
 features, in which appeared lines that made 
 him look like an old man. The experiment, 
 then, had failed. 
 
 Ralph raised his head and looked sternly 
 and scornfully at him. ' You yourself 
 deserve to die,' he said ; ' but you have 
 dragged me into your own humiliation, and I 
 am not worthy to inflict your punishment.' 
 
 Conrad cast a haggard glance at the 
 corpse. 
 
 ' I would gladly have died to succeed,' he 
 muttered. 
 
 ' Be thankful that you did not succeed ; 
 what are you, or any man, to turn law into 
 chaos, and gain a victory over Nature ! ' 
 
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 But, all in an instant, an electric shock 
 seemed to run through Conrad, and set his 
 soul on fire. An awful ecstasy of triumph 
 glared out of his face. His hair bristled on 
 his head, and he gnashed his teeth together. 
 
 ' See ! see ! ' he shrieked, tossing his arms 
 aloft and stamping his feet on the floor. ' I 
 have not failed ! She lives ! she lives ! Ha ! 
 ha ! ha ! Ralph — Ralph Merlin ? Whose is 
 the victory now ? ' 
 
 Ralph stepped forward, and bent a long 
 look into the coffer. Then he grasped Conrad 
 with hands of iron. 
 
 ' Hush ! hush ! ' he said, in a deep voice. 
 ' If God has permitted this thing, let us meet 
 it with reverence ; it may mean the greatest 
 blessing, or the greatest curse, of time ! ' 
 
 And even as he spoke, Hildegarde opened 
 her eyes, and sat erect. She seemed per- 
 plexed ; but, meeting Ralph's eyes, she smiled 
 as if reassured. 
 
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 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 ON ONE CONDITION. 
 
 The emotion of wonder is one of the most 
 vehement of all ; and it is also one of the 
 most transitory. Imagination revels in it, 
 but the mind cannot tolerate it ; and no 
 sooner has a marvel taken place, than we 
 compel it, willy-nilly, into some sort of ac- 
 cordance with the routine of experience. If 
 we could not do this, we should probably 
 . lose our reason altogether. Nature abhors not 
 a vacuum more than does human nature a 
 miracle. 
 
 That first sharp stab of amazement, when 
 my eyes saw her who had lain dead for two 
 years return to life, lasted but a few blind mo- 
 
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 ments. It took but those few moments for me 
 to raise and readjust my whole conception of 
 law and order. Law and order still existed, 
 and were as immutable as ever ; it was my 
 view of them that had changed. By the time 
 Hildegarde had gained her feet, and had 
 uttered the first few words of her new life, I 
 had accommodated myself to the situation, 
 and nothing remained but the agreeable ex- 
 citement of an interesting novelty. 
 
 Of course, other elements entered into the 
 emotions of Ralph and Conrad, to whom the 
 event was quite as much personal as general 
 in its bearings. But it was at once perceived 
 by all of us that Hildegarde must be intro- 
 duced only by the most circumspect degrees 
 to the knowledge of what had befallen her ; 
 and for a while we were sufficiently occupied 
 in parrying her questions and managing her 
 curiosity. She remembered having been taken 
 suddenly ill ; she recalled a darkened room 
 
ON ONE CONDITION 223 
 
 and the hushed voice of nurses ; and the last 
 circumstance in her recollection was of Con- 
 rad's saying to her, ' Now, I will put you to 
 sleep.' He had several times exercised this 
 power over her, and she had soon felt herselt 
 succumbing to the influence. The rest was a 
 blank. But how had she got into that box ? 
 what were the rose-leaves there for ? and 
 how happened it that Ralph, in the space of a 
 few hours, had contrived to grow a beard and 
 to get gray hairs ? These things required ex- 
 planation ; and who was to explain them ? 
 
 ' That was a good sleep you gave me, 
 Conrad,' she remarked. ' I was very ill 
 before ; I thought I might be going to die ; 
 but now I am better and stronger than I ever 
 was ; and all in such a little while ! ' 
 
 What is a little while ? What a thing 
 time is, to be sure ! 
 
 It was moving to observe Ralph's profound 
 preoccupation with her, — his tremulous, almost 
 
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 speechless emotion, — and her happy uncon- 
 sciousness of anything stranger than his beard. 
 No shadow remained on her mind of the great 
 gulf which she had crossed, and crossed again. 
 She had brought with her no tidings of the 
 other world ; and yet she had been there, and 
 had experienced what no other human being 
 had done. 
 
 Conrad had drawn Ealph aside, and con- 
 versed with him a few minutes ; and then he 
 beckoned to me, and I followed him out of the 
 room. 
 
 ' We may as well leave the lovers to 
 explain themselves to each other,' he said. 
 He had quite recovered from the wild burst of 
 excitement with which he had greeted the 
 success of his experiment, just when all had 
 seemed to be lost. ' I may as well tell you,' 
 he went on, ' that I have made all arrange- 
 ments to have them married this evening. 
 There are several reasons for this, and at all 
 
ON ONE CONDITION 225 
 
 events their betrothal has lasted quite 
 long enough. The guests will be here in 
 a few minutes. To avoid complications", I 
 have invited only such persons as are unac- 
 quainted with the peculiar circumstances, 
 and have heard nothing of my sister's reputed 
 death.' 
 
 ' Did she die, indeed ? ' I asked. 
 
 ' Really, my dear fellow, I can hardly tell 
 you. According to all precedent she did. 
 But you shall hear just how the matter 
 stands. Catalina, as you have no doubt sur- 
 mised, under cover of scientific curiosity, 
 visited Burlace in his laboratory, and secured 
 some of the microscopic germs that he was 
 investigating. Nothing is easier than to ad- 
 minister these germs in the food or drink ; 
 and neither the victim nor the physician can 
 prove that a crime has been committed ; a 
 disease has established itself, and it runs its 
 course, which, in this instance, was bound to 
 
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 be fatal ; but there is no trace of murder 
 outside the mind of the murderer. 
 
 'After making trial of all recognised 
 means of combating the disease, I saw that 
 the girl must die. Then I resolved to put to 
 the test a theory which I had speculated upon 
 long before. I waited until she was almost 
 in the act of death ; another ten minutes 
 would have seen the end. I had magnetised 
 her several times previously, both to relieve 
 small ailments to which she was occasionally 
 subject, and also, now and then, for certain 
 purposes of my own. Therefore, she was 
 completely under what is called my magnetic 
 control. I put forth the influence, and though 
 there was more resistance on her part than I 
 had expected to find, she yielded at last, and 
 fell into the trance. 
 
 ' I argued that as long as she remained in 
 this condition — which, to one unfamiliar with 
 its peculiar symptoms, is indistinguishable 
 
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 from death — the action of the poison on her 
 system would be arrested. And not only 
 might it be arrested ; it might, after a certain 
 lapse of time, disappear altogether, the germs 
 themselves becoming devoid of life. As to 
 this last, however, I was probably mistaken. 
 My subsequent study of the germs tends to 
 show that they are practically indestructible, 
 once they have got a lodgment in the body. 
 But be that as it may, I was perfectly suc- 
 cessful in the other matter. The progress of 
 the disease stopped short at the instant she 
 fell into the trance ; and it has remained 
 inactive from that day to this.' 
 
 ' You have kept her in a trance for two 
 years ? ' 
 
 ' Certainly ; and she might have continued 
 so indefinitely. Meanwhile, she was pro- 
 nounced dead ; her body was put in the 
 coffin, and her funeral was duly solemnised. 
 A few weeks later, without attracting any 
 
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228 THE SPECTRE OF THE CAMERA 
 
 attention, I had her conveyed to my rooms, 
 and placed her in the coffer where you saw 
 her to-day. She has lain there ever since. 
 You saw what occurred this evening. And 
 that, in brief, is the history of the case.' 
 
 It was a strange history ; but it seemed to 
 me that the strangest features of it had been 
 omitted, and that Conrad was designedly 
 slurring over these features. What about the 
 apparition that I had seen emerge from behind 
 the black curtain in the pentagonal chamber? 
 
 And what of those visitations which had 
 guided Ralph from the centre of Africa round 
 the world? Nor was I by any means satisfied 
 that an ordinary trance would present the 
 same characteristics as this of Hildegarde's. 
 The body would dry up and perish in much 
 less time than two years. 
 
 "When I questioned Conrad on these points, 
 he answered somewhat evasively. 
 
 ' The phenomena you speak of were pro- 
 
ON ONE CONDITION 229 
 
 bably entirely imaginary,' he said. ' At all 
 events, Low can there be any connection 
 between them, and the experiment I wag 
 describing? ' 
 
 ' I don't know what the connection is, but 
 there is one ; and I believe that it was of 
 your making. I have not forgotten 
 Schandau.' 
 
 ' You must bear in mind that very little 
 is understood of the real nature of trance,' he 
 finally remarked. ' The body is wholly 
 quiescent, but the spirit and the principles 
 intermediate between that and the body may 
 possess a greater freedom and activity than 
 before. Nothing would be dispersed or 
 dissipated, as is the case in actual death ; but 
 a being would exist in the astral light, pos- 
 sessing some qualities nearly allied to the 
 physical, and yet capable of passing from 
 place to place with the rapidity and docility 
 of thought. Now, there seems to be a special 
 
230 THE SPECTRE OF THE CAMERA 
 
 relation between the trance-being and the will 
 or thoughts of the magnetiser. Possibly it 
 retains no will of its own, or but little. In 
 that case it would be in a measure subject to 
 the will and thought of the magnetiser, when 
 strongly concentrated and exerted, and would 
 be present in any place on which his attention 
 was fixed. But really, the whole question is 
 so obscure that I am perplexed about it my- 
 self. As to the condition of the body after 
 so long a lapse of time, I may fairly take 
 some credit to myself for it,' he added, with 
 a smile. ' That affair of the magnet and 
 pentagon is an invention, or at least an adap- 
 tation, of my own. Some elements enter into 
 its construction that do not appear on the 
 surface ; and you have felt as well as seen 
 something of its powers. Of course, it was 
 not that that restored Hildegarde to life, — or, 
 if you prefer it, roused her from her trance. 
 Its effect was physical merely ; it refreshed 
 
ON ONE CONDITION 231 
 
 the body, and prepared it for its inhabitant. 
 It was by reversing the passes that had en- 
 tranced her, that I succeeded in bringing 
 her round, — though I confess there was a 
 moment when I felt a trifle uneasy over the 
 result.' 
 
 ' I fancied you looked a little bit put out 
 just then ; though I thought you seemed 
 pleased just afterwards. But there is one 
 thing about this business, Conrad,' I added, 
 dropping the ironic vein, ' that seems to me 
 to counterbalance all you have gained. The 
 germs of the poison, you say, cannot be de- 
 stroyed. If that be so, Hildegarde has only 
 a reprieve. The return of life will be to her 
 but a return of death, and the more tragic 
 because it is a return. In how many days, or 
 hours, this will come to pass, you probably 
 know better than I ; but if you have not 
 provided against it, I don't know why you 
 are not a worse murderer than Catalina,' 
 
232 THE SPECTRE OF THE CAMERA 
 
 'I have had it under consideration con- 
 stantly almost since the first,' he returned, 
 rather gloomily; ' and though I have not quite 
 cleared up the difficulty, yet I have at least 
 ensured the prolongation of Hildegarde's life 
 indefinitely, — provided that she observes cer- 
 tain easy conditions.' 
 
 ' What are they ? ' 
 
 ' They involve only her remaining always 
 within a few hours' journey of this place. 
 The poison in her system is not likely to be 
 quiescent more than two or three days ; and 
 as soon as it begins to act, she must again be 
 thrown into the trance, and afterwards sub- 
 jected to the influence of the great magnet. 
 This treatment is indispensable, and it will 
 probably have to be repeated at regular in- 
 tervals. But the annoyance is slight, and, 
 in view of the result, I don't imagine that 
 either she or Ralph will object. And now,' 
 he broke off, ' our guests are beginning to 
 
ON ONE CONDITION 233 
 
 arrive. The clergyman "will be here imme- 
 diately, and I must prepare the lovers for the 
 happiness in store for them.' 
 
 He went out, and left me to my medita- 
 tions, which were not of an entirely roseate 
 hue. I had acquired the impression that 
 Conrad had some ulterior end in view in all 
 this, which was not of a wholly unselfish 
 character, andi t seemed to me that the neces- 
 sity of constantly renewing Hildegarde's vita- 
 lity, and of subjecting her at such short inter- 
 vals to the absolute control of her brother, 
 might prove more irksome than he seemed 
 to anticipate. But I tried to hope for the 
 best. 
 
 In the drawing-room several persons were 
 already assembled. I had met none of them 
 before, and it was evident that they had been 
 summoned chiefly to act as witnesses of what 
 was about to take place. Conrad entered, 
 escorting the clergyman, a youngish man, 
 
234 THE SPECTRE OF THE CAMERA 
 
 with an amiable and feeble face. A lawyer 
 was also in attendance to oversee the prepara- 
 tion and signing of the marriage contract! 
 Finally, Ralph came in, with Hildegarde on 
 his arm. 
 
 I presume that Hildegarde had by this 
 time been made acquainted with the facts of 
 her condition. Her face, always extremely 
 sensitive in reflecting the states of her spirit, 
 wore an expression of wistful solemnity, tem- 
 pex*ed with the tenderness of an exalted love, 
 that somehow brought tears to my eyes. 
 Ralph, on the other hand, had a look about 
 him that was quite new to me, and that I did 
 not altogether like. The colour in his face 
 was warm, and his eyes lively and bright ; a 
 smile hovered constantly about his mouth, 
 and he kept looking at Hildegarde with 
 glances that were not merely lover-like, but 
 idolatrous, and even seemed to express a sen- 
 suousness of feeling that was out of keeping 
 
ON ONE CONDITION 235 
 
 with my friend's depth and gravity of charac- 
 ter. He rather avoided my eye, and when 
 I congratulated him, he said, ' We owe 
 everything to Conrad. Science and humanity 
 ought to unite in canonising that man. I 
 can never excuse myself for the way in which 
 I spoke to him to-day. But I see the error 
 of my way, and am not likely to make such 
 an ass of myself again. Is not the mere flesh 
 and blood of such a woman as that worth a 
 thousand souls ? ' 
 
 ' Is she immortal? ' returned I. 
 
 'What is immortality?' said he, with a 
 short laugh. ' We know what is, but who 
 can tell what may be ? ' 
 
 The clergyman advanced ; the couple took 
 their places beside each other ; the guests 
 gathered round, and the words of the covenant 
 were uttered. Conrad stood behind the bride, 
 and as the ceremony ended, his figure seemed 
 to grow taller and dilate, as if some long-de- 
 
236 THE SPECTRE OF THE CAMERA 
 
 sired triumph had at last been won. What 
 "was the meaning of it? 
 
 The papers remained to be signed. Ralph 
 wrote his name first. Then Hildegarde took 
 the pen in her hand. As she laid it down 
 again, having affixed her signature, the door 
 at the end of the room opened, and Catalina 
 entered. 
 
237 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 MARRIAGE. 
 
 Her appearance was entirely unexpected by 
 everybody save Conrad ; bis face at Once took 
 on an expression of malicious satisfaction. 
 And in a moment I realised the whole signi- 
 ficance of the event. He had inflicted upon 
 this woman a revenge as ingenious as it was 
 overwhelming. 
 
 Having first convinced her of Hildegarde's 
 death, at the same time leading her to suppose 
 that he was wholly unsuspicious of her agency 
 in it, he had put her in a position where she 
 fancied herself free to marry without prejudice 
 to the terms of her husband's will. The mo- 
 tives that induced her to yield to Buflace's 
 
238 THE SPECTRE OF THE CAMERA 
 
 suit, though love could scarcely have been one 
 of them, were still urgent enough to make the 
 act comprehensible. But it was not a part of 
 Conrad's scheme to permit her to profit by 
 Burlace's protection. Whether he had any 
 hand in the mysterious occurrences that kept 
 them apart, and what, precisely, those occur- 
 rences were, you can probably conjecture as 
 easily as I. 
 
 But Hildegarde was not dead ; she was 
 alive ; and she was not separated for ever from 
 Ralph ; she was his wife. Therefore, not 
 only was Catalina deprived of her fortune and 
 thrown helpless on the world, but she was 
 compelled to behold her rival's triumph and 
 felicity, which she had staked and lost her 
 own salvation to prevent. 
 
 She did not at first see Hildegarde, and 
 Conrad immediately stepped forward to greet 
 her with a great manifestation of cordiality. 
 He held her in conversation for a few minutes, 
 
MARRIAGE 239 
 
 and then led her up the room, saying, in a 
 voice that all might hear : 
 
 ' Ralph, and Mrs. Merlin, our celebration 
 would have been incomplete if my step -mother 
 had not kindly consented to come and offer 
 you her congratulations.' 
 
 Catalina stopped short, as if she had run 
 against a wall in the dark. Her black eyes 
 wavered for a moment, but finally fixed them- 
 selves upon Hildegarde in a ghastly stare. 
 Then, with her hands outstretched, she drew 
 nearer, step by step. Her face, though beau- 
 tiful still, was awful to look upon at that crisis. 
 She had not passed unscathed through these 
 two years ; there were lines around her mouth 
 and beneath her eyes that suggested tortured 
 nerves, and vain attempts to drug them into 
 insensibility. And these traces were dread- 
 fully emphasised by the emotion of the junc- 
 ture. 
 
 She crept toward her rival as if controlled 
 
240 THE SPECTRE OF THE CAMERA 
 
 by a mixture of terror and desperate curiosity. 
 At length, when within arm's reach, she 
 doubtfully extended one hand, until the trem- 
 bling finger-tips came in contact with Hilde- 
 garde's shoulder. Probably she had imagined 
 that the girl was but a spectre, and would 
 vanish at a touch. Had Conrad, then, made 
 this innocent spirit the helpless instrument of 
 his malignity? 
 
 But when Catalina realised that here was 
 no spectral illusion, but actual flesh and blood, 
 she emitted a sharp breathing sound from her 
 throat, and fell back a step, pressing her 
 hands against her temples. Her eyes rolled 
 in their sockets. After standing so for a 
 while, she began to laugh softly. Oh, surely 
 the cruelest vengeance might have been sated 
 by that piteous spectacle ! The shock and be- 
 wilderment had been too great for her already 
 failing nerves, and she was going mad before 
 our eyes. 
 
MARRIAGE S41 
 
 The deep absorption of this episode had 
 kept our attention from a confused noise out- 
 side the door. But now the door was flung 
 open, and a heavily-built man, hatless, with 
 disordered dress and flushed face, half stag- 
 gered and half stalked into the room. It was 
 Will Burlace, savage with drink, and with a 
 passion smouldering in his bloodshot eyes 
 that was not due to drink alone. How had 
 he come there? He must have followed me 
 secretly from London, his morbid suspicions 
 having suggested some new plot on foot 
 against him. His glance singled out Catalina 
 at once, and Ralph standing near her ; and it 
 was plain that he deemed his suspicions fully 
 justified. 
 
 ' I knew where I should find you, and how 
 I should find you,' he said, as he came to- 
 wards his wife. ' You thought you could 
 pull the wool over my eyes, but I'm not 
 
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342 THE SPECTRE OF THE CAMERA 
 
 such a fool. I'll settle with you now. You 
 wouldn't give an honest man your heart, 
 but I'll cut it out of your white body, my 
 dear ! ' 
 
 It was doing Ralph injustice ; but so it 
 was, that he was the last man whom I ex- 
 pected to see step forward to protect Catalina. 
 And yet he was the only one who would. 
 Burlace had a knife in his hand. Catalina 
 lacked either the intelligence or the will to 
 try to escape. Ralph caught the wrist of 
 Burlace's right hand, which held the knife ; 
 and instantly they were engaged in a desperate 
 struggle. 
 
 It recalled to my memory that tussle of 
 theirs, years ago ; but that was in play, and 
 this was deadly earnest. Burlace, besides his 
 superior weight, had the fury of his jealous 
 and murderous rage to enforce him ; Ralph 
 seemed to me somewhat less quick and supple 
 than of yore, and twice or thrice I saw him 
 
MARRIAGE 243 
 
 wince, as if from a sharp pain. I had forgot 
 the assegai wound that he had received in 
 Africa. 
 
 Burlace bore him back, and I thought he 
 was overcome. But, by a feint, Ralph threw 
 him off his balance ; and then, in a flash, the 
 knife flew from the other's hand ; the two 
 whirled round, and came to the floor with a 
 crash that shook the room. Burlace was un- 
 dermost, and he lay stunned. Ralph rose, 
 but painfully, with a pallid face, and pressing 
 his hand against his side. His old wound 
 had opened, and he was bleeding internally. 
 
 He lay in great suffering all that night ; 
 and the next morning it was evident that he 
 must die. Hldegarde did not leave him, and 
 it seemed to me that as his strength failed, 
 she also drooped and faded. She looked thin 
 and frail, and her flesh was almost trans- 
 parent. But the love in her eyes glowed 
 
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244 THE SPECTRE OF THE CAMERA 
 
 stronger than ever, and instead of grief, she 
 appeared to be inspired with an inward spiri- 
 tual joy. 
 
 Conrad had been observing her critically ; 
 and at length he told Ealph plainly that the 
 old poison had already recommenced its fatal 
 work on her, and that it would be necessary 
 to apply the remedy without delay. Ealph 
 took her hand in his, and regarded her 
 steadily. ' You hear what your brother 
 says ? ' he said. 
 
 ' All is well with us,' she replied ; ' I 
 want no change.' 
 
 ' But your life depends upon it, • Hilde- 
 garde.' 
 
 ' No — not my life,' answered she. 
 
 ' All that I have done has been for 
 you, Hildegarde ! ' Conrad exclaimed. ' I have 
 loved you, I have avenged you, I have brought 
 you back to life. Will you leave me now, 
 and render it all vain ? ' 
 
MARRIAGE 245 
 
 'I must stay with niy husband,' was her 
 reply. 
 
 ' Let it be so, Conrad,' said Ralph, at last, 
 ' For my part, I am well content with this 
 conclusion. It was all wrong — what you at- 
 tempted, and I acquiesced in. Had I lived 
 I should have lowered myself, and perhaps 
 her also. There is a wisdom and kindness 
 greater than any we know of. Our little 
 efforts to gain power and wield it — what do 
 they amount to, after all ? The worst grief 
 that nature brings us is not very grievous ; 
 but we have no mercy on ourselves,' 
 
 ' You are a fool ! ' said Conrad sullenly, 
 turning away. 
 
 Ralph and Hildegarde both died that 
 night. The bodies were put in coffins, and 
 left in the pentagonal chamber. But when 
 the bearers went to remove them, it was found 
 that Hildegarde's coffin contained only a few 
 handfuls of fragrant white dust. At first, I 
 
246 THE SPECTRE OF THE CAMERA 
 
 suspected Conrad of some subtle practice, but 
 I have since come to the conclusion that this 
 was a mistake. "When Hildegarde's soul left 
 her body for its final flight, nothing remained 
 that could know corruption. And, perhaps, 
 during her long trance, influences had been at 
 work which rendered her apparent recovery 
 little more than a sort of mirage of physical 
 existence, destined to endure but for a mo- 
 ment and then vanish for ever. 
 
 But does she not live still, and Ralph 
 with her ? I would rather trust her faith on 
 that point than take my cue from Conrad, 
 though he is now one of the leaders of 
 European science. 
 
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