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I have never been able to he a skeptic upon things occult since seeing that photograph. lie told us ttyat he had lived almost in secretL-that he had never dared communicate with Donald for fear that the message would fall into wrong hands and reveal his hiding place. f * "One day he was amazed to see Jos Vlnal at his door. How this man traced him be never learned. Vlnal, was dying. Only his purpose had supported him through the latter part of ' the journey. .He made a complete rev? elatioVrof thtrlnner facts of the bani robbery, ih which he himself was the principal criminal. This statement was sworn to before the American consul, and a few days later Vinal died. Henry Donaldson went to Hougkong and thence home, bringing the statement which was put into the hands of the baud's officials, who used it to extort as complete restitution as possible from VInn l*o nnAAmnll/iAa nr?/I 4 Im n t *"? ? uv?.vujj/?iv?;o, ?uu iuu ujuhcl was kept quiet through tho usual influences, except that a card was published exonerating Donald's brother. He seemed to be perfectly satisfied with this, though/it was not very definite, Really the poor fellow Was done with earth. He died as many men and women die who might live, but have not the will. - "In ^conclusion I have only this to say: So fas as wo can learn Donald's vision was perfectly accurate. It showed Vina! laying his written confession before Henry Donaldson. But the vl * sion occurred about eight hours before the event I leave the explanation of this phenomenon to any one who thinks himself competent. I am not. "You may be disposed to suggest that Henry Donaldson had communicated with his brother unknown to me. In regard to this I have not only Donald's word, but nenry's, and you will bear in mind that I attended Ilen. ry in his last Illness, so that, aside from the lack of motive for his telling me 4 falsehood, we must consider also the respect that is usually accorded to tbe statement of a dying man. "Moreover. Henry could not have communicated the fact of the ennfea slon, because be knew nothing about it himself until some hours uftcr it was-kuown to us. It must be remembered also that Donald was entirely lgncfrant of his brother's whereabouts even bfter bb bad'bad the vision. Ho *bad~'th6 sensation of being in that rooui'and bf looking across the tablo tow^fd the window, add from the asct tji.e cpuntry be supposed that scen6 was in China.'' ? _ CUAPTlSlt IV. AJt..EXCEPTIONAL MATCH.8 Whiting censed Ilnckett drew 1A a long breath and looked at Mm me. little-ahead of Anything we've found yet, John." said he. "Havo yon ever tried to figure the thing out In y6bt own mind, Mr. Donaldson?" The ytf\jti# tnan shook his head, "I'knpW what I saw," he said, "but I dofi't fcrfov^ what Was back of It, and I I am inclined to think." he added, with I n srt^W,. "that it ia much the same WitbgH.wg see, Jioweyer simple. There is n mystery behind that teacup which no man alive can, solve." > > ' "We know that it wllj beid our ten,"'* snld ii||Qbettr 'toot this psychic business .doesn't seem to have any bottom." -I nskcd whether any one knew why Ylnnl.hn^ not, made bis confession in. this cbrAtry.- * 1 9k " "He went to beglHproBQtber's Mrdon and to die forgiven," said Donaldson. "He put his confession into the hands 'of the man who had been yfamfsd." ' A general' conversation fallowed in I olson & Son, :ers, r business ) SEE US. ALAS ANY CAN CIVE YOU. URCES ARE UNSURPASSED. ig a Iruc Record and f xpljiwtion of the Seven Mysteries Now Associated With ills Name In the PutPc Mind, and of an llghth. Which Is the Key of the Seven ON. JR. By HOWARD FIELDING | wblcli Donaldson appeared to far greater advantage than before. The telling of tpe story seemed to have taken a weight off his mind. Doth IlacU? ett and myself were pleased with him, and we resolved to carry out .our original Intention of taking him into our employ. W'e did not speak of the matter until nftcr Whiting had left us. He had said in the beginning that be could be with us not more than hulf on hour. When he had gone, I explained to Donaldson that we been considering him withfl^^HBttto a position of importanctiggpFvdUsincss, and I named the dutle^zJSe salary and the prospects. ' Ho wa?4o be Mr. Ilackett'a assistant inourdepATtmcntof soles. We were then introdurthg a system.of disposing ot our goods which wus entirely unique in this qpuntry, and we required a young tnau of good appearance, of cultivated mind and manner and especially of that quiek, intuitive perception which is so Valuable In dealing with the highest grade of merchants. The right man, coming to us with the proper energy and abiHty, might hope for anything, up to an Interest in our business, uiiit ?uuiu niaivL- unit luuru iiiuu cii to do. It all depended upon himself. Donaldson received this proposal with a solemnity which justiiled his college nickname of "deacon," by which we hud heard Dr. Whiting address him. | . "It is useless for me to deny," said he, "that what you suggest is a great advance for me. In my pregent place I am like a diver walking with leaden soled shoes in a medium of high resistance and. having everything pumped down to me from above. 1 can't get to the top, and nobody is going to pull mc up. 1 make a few signup by pulling oq a string, but nobody answers them. I'm sunk; that's the truth about me. "Therefore," liecontinued, looking first to Haekett and then to ma, "I am more than ready to accept your offer, but there is one difficulty?1 perceive that you have another motive in making It.". "Another motiveV" said I, looking across at my partner. Young Mr. Donaldson laid his clinched right hand upon the table. "Prom this day forth," said he, "if 1 have any power or means of knowledge that is different from the average I will make no display of it and no use of it. That is my irrevocable decision. You will never leurn more of that subject from me than you will know tonight when the sun goes down. But, since I have cost away restraint today, let mecontinuc in that folly. "I know perfectly well that you have another object in making this proposal to me; that it is a part of a fantastic dream. You hope to mate mo with a young woman whom you believe to possess the same powers that are in me. You think that you are acting in the interests of the advance of human knowledge and that posterity, with the probable exception of my posterity, will rise up and call you blessed." I was motionless, dumfounded. I could not have cried "Fire!" if the blaze bad broken out in my own pockI th<\uann/l nxncion fw/\m T n vti ? VII lUUUrNIUU UJCOOJI^CO ItUUI UU" pan were not to be thought of in comparison with this phenomenon. For the secret that ho had touched upon was absolutely ours. My own private speculations upon the subject and my brief and inconsequential talks with Hackett summed up the whole of It. Neither of us had ever suggested that Donaldson and Miss Vaughn might make q match of it, yet thOildea had ty sd through my mind now and tlief* / I found out afterward that it Jbttn in Hackett's% "J don't p* , io say," continued Donp Id son, "y /on would use any influence or v.,V out any Inducements to . bring sacb a marriage about, hut you wll) Jook for It, and you will bo dtsapI pointed. Why, Mr. Harrington, If I i - . " # * ' \ ' knew that a girl was what Is called a psychic 1 could no more love her thifn I could love a girl with two noses. No, sir; I am opposed to superfluity. The ordihary mental and physical endowments are enough for me. If you attempt to make any such match for me, I shall run." "But have you any reason to suppose that such a girl exists?" I demanded. "Who Is she?" "I have no Intimation as to who she is," he replied, addressing me directly. "I perceive no more than that she is some one for whom you have a high regard, and It Is doubtless a great honor for me to be coupled with her in your thoughts. But I ask you to think of It no more." "You have read from a closed book," said I, "and it is a marvelous thing to do. But you have read only a single paragraph and have failed to grasp the sense of the whole volume. We want your head In our business, Mr. Donaldson, and are willing to pay for it, but your heart Is your own, and I should be the first to dissuade you from a marriage, however advantageous it might seem to be, that was based upon any other impulse than the love of a good woman." "I am a melaqcholy fellhw," said Donaldson, with evident feeling, "and unfit for matrimony. Only cheerful people should marry. A rich man's money may bless or curse his children. At the best, it Is not so good as a happy disposition: at the wemt it londa added to our working force at Tun- ' bridge and became a member of my ; household, and there a singular and amusing complication presently came about. Mrs. Jane Harrington, whose 1 husband is a cousin of mine and has charge of a branch of our business in \ the west, came to visit me, bringing her daughter, a very charming young woman of twenty. In some mysterious manner Donaldson got the notion that Millie Harrington was the beautifuj psychic whose union with himself was secretly plotted by the wily " Stephen Hackett and me. Up bad never beeq able to fid himself of {lio idea that something of the sort was In tho wind, but ho was entirely Ignorant of the facts In the case of Dorothy Vaughn. In fact, nobody In Tunbrldge except Hackett and me knew that Dorothy's coming to teach our school bad any connection with our quest of mysteries. It wflfl far mora llkplv flint rinnnlilsnn should Suspect Millie, who was there upon my direct invitation and seem ingly thrown Into his way with malice aforethought, than, Dorothy, who lived on the other side of the town and was merely the schoolteacher. Millie was a flirt, I'm afraid, and as the deacon was the most attractive young man in her vicinity she proceeded to practice her innocent arts upon him. I think he was not naturally timid In such matters. He had a very easy and graceful banner in the company of ladies, and not even so I simple an old fellow as myself could fail to see that he had learned his lesson in the school Of experience. Mil- | lie found him an admirable cavalier, ( and she kept him busy in her service. I It may have been five weeks that ' Millie and her mother wero at my house, and the place was so gay ^hat i I did not feel ht home. In the even- I ings there woul* be music and danc- I j lng, and I would sit in n corner alone i except when Haekett sprayed into thi4 ; scene of unaccustomed revelrv or when i Dorothy could be persuaded to come over after tho school. She was to mourning for her aunt, of course, an^Jrl could not join In tho sport, but she | held It no harm to sit In sober black ' and wntcfi.tho others. We had some f great talks in this way, but it seemed I to me that she was not In so good spjr- I its otter this brief season of festivity i I* *? / . - i J1:iv nothing that la half so bad as hered ltary sourness of heart. You will for give me for mentioning this subject. Really, I was afraid that I might b? beguiled into some sort of nn experiment. It may have been a cranky notion, but this whole conversation lias been such -a weird mixture of business and ghosts!" The big clock in the corner struck 'J and surprised us all with the lateness of the hour. It was necessary for Don aldson to return at once to his office, and so we could not ask him the questions which were pressing for utterance. I may say, however, that when we had abundant opportunity thereafter we obtained scant information. Donaldson either could not or would pot- tell, how_Jf.8*ttlituined his psychic messages. riTl irffike suddenly remethberlug something that you have always known," was the usual way in which he dodged the question, and he would never speak upon the -subject ht all when he could avoid doing so. Upon the matter of Donaldson's recognition of his friend Whiting's presence we made one discovery beforo leaving the restaurant. Ilackett sat 1 down in the chair which our young friend had occupied uud immediately 1 perceived that owing to the position of a hat tree upon which our coats were hung the mirror in the wall could, not explain the phenomenon. I could see around one side of this obstruction and Ilackett around the other side, but it was precisely in the necessary line of Donaldson's vision. About two weeks after this remarkable luncheon Deacon Donaldson was got wen unaer way. maeea it must have been a trial for a young and pretty girl, as I tbougbt uiore tban once. It never occurred to me tbat tliere could bo any special trouble. Even when she advanced tbe opinion one evening tbat she was not doing very well with tbe school and perhaps it might be better for her to go away I totally failed to comprehend. That night after the house had become quiet I was sitting before the fire in the library alone when Donaldson dropped in to keep me company. At my invitation he took a cigar, selecting one that was black and strong, and when he had lighted it I perceived that there was something on his mind. A iuan who. wishes to conceal his mental state should not smoke in the presence of a smoker. "Mr. Harrington," said he at last, "you have been very good to me. You have put me in a illie way of business, so that my future is assured?if I bohave U)YSClf. I nm vni'V n-rntofnl l? - ?J 1U CVery way. and I'm going to please you if I can. But, by Jingo," he cried, suddenly springing up, "I can't!" "Why not?" I asked as gently as possible. lie dried the palms of his hands upon bis handkerchief. "It's a great honor," he said, trying to be culm. "I told you so long ago at Bertram's. Of course I didn't then know that the young latfy would be related to you. I couldn't foresee how beautiful she would be, how admirable In every way. She doesn't care a penny for me, to be sure, but I'm not speaking of'that. I m speaking of my own sentiments. She's got the most ' wonderful eyes?dark, mysterious, marvelous eyes. By Jove, I can well believe that she's the true psychic! And perhaps that's what's the matter." "Are you speaking of Miss Harrington?" I inquired as he paused. And he replied with a quick nod of atlirmation. "I'll tell you the truth!" he cried, wheeling toward me suddenly. "The psychic matter hasn't anything to do with it. It's because I'm In love with somebody else. I've got no business to be in love, but I am. On the chance that the woman I love mny love me I ought to go and drown myself?in licr Interest?but I won't. I will stay right and" Yin her if I^cun.i^mBelllsh enough to do it, vain oilink 1mny succeed, and It seemed to be my duty, to twll j'ou about it, Mr. Harrington. considering the very peculiar circumstances of the case." "Who is the young lady?" I Inquired. For some strange reason a flood of motion choked him as he tried to speak her name. He struggled with it for on instant and then answered me by throwing out bis right arm so that lie pointed to the window and across tlie broad lawn and nearly the whple town beyond it, half a mile or more in ill, to the house where Dorothy lived. I understood hitn perfectly. "You couldn't please mo better than that." said I. "With all my heart 1 wish you well." Some days later Dorothy told me that she was much more encouraged about the sehool and that she had quite Si veil up the idea of going away. She Was devoted to the work, and yet I knew that it was not her success theren which had so lightened her heart. When Ilaekett learned how matters stood, he Insisted that my theory about i natural antipathy between psychics was overthrown, but 1 preferred to re?i?5?l They were nuirried tn my house. iford the ease as merely exceptional. 3bvlousIy the rule carfpot be ironclad, Tor If such were the fact occult powers f would disappear from the world. A f antt r*o f n !?*? ? ? ** **" 4 1V ??UJ IUVV, lUlo nao a UUU IUVC match If ever there was one. Their lappinees brought out the noblest qualities of tbelr hearts. They did \vonderrul work that winter, both of them, lustlfying my best hopes and winning my warmest good will. It was to be a long engagement Doroth^ had mentioned two years, I believe. But In the late spring we planned to send Donaldson abrdnd, with the result that Dorothy decided to ;o.too. So they were married In my liouse, which was rose bedecked for the occasion.-* There were festivities tvblch lasted until sundown, and thfen _ &faAMBKsaNK8 L WE A.R.] (TO ?1 OUR resources aro not fabul 'ton earth, nor do we do i BUT we are here among the ample means for all rc enough to take care of a WE COME, hacked up hy a good rcc made irreproachable by WE ARE here to stay and we soli accommodation consistc Interest Paid on T rierchants and Plant wtuie some of the younger guests were tying telltale ribbons to the carriage that waited before 1113' door the two 'overs es'-aped by another way and ran hand'in band like children across ' the fields through the sweet .June even- 1 lag. It appeared that tbey had secret- 1 ly sent all their baggage to the railroad statiou earlier In the day. chapter v. THE MYSTERY ON THE EXPECTED RODIIEll. Donald Donaldson, jr.. was born May 2, 1ss1. lie was the healthiest and altogether the finest child that ever came into ti e world, the most deil... ?.?..? I~ ? ? rum, I IIV -H'.-M IIU-II. .'Villi WIIIIUSK'ill nature exacted tlio smallest possible price of pain for him. Vol permit me to reconsider that rt itmnent i:i the light of a better philosophy. There nre those who say that in adversity one need not shout for the awakening of the gods nor in the day of superabundance dread it; tint notb- , iug comes which is not earned, it may be that a young mother reaped no more than the just reward of consistent right living from her earlio: gTlhood. However that tuay he. fact romaius that ail tilings we incredibly well behold Dorothy, as pretty as ever and not a day older, tripping about the house with a song; behold the hoy, healthy as a young lion and roaring, when lie roared, for Ins own good pleasure and not for any 111. Hacked prophesied great tilings of him. believing tlint his exploits would some day necessitate a revised edition of our "Psychic Facts," a work that was. then complete except for the last ' section, which ilackett wished to entitle "The Real Facts" despito the inipMtntion upon the accuracy of the ' preceding portions. * As to his hopes of young Donald my partner spoke only once In the pres- ' ence of the hoy's parents. "You'd have thought I had accused ; Kim Ivninr, /?..?/! >> 1.1 UlUi VI vv lllp VI UOO CJ CU, OUIVI Lit; IU LUC In describing the incident, and thereafter we discussed the subject strictly In private. Our book eventually went to the printer, but Uackett never saw it in a binding. lie'was stricken with an illness which rushed on to a fatal termination in such haste that it ^seemed all over in a day, and I was standing by the grave of my oldest friend. Afterward I could hardly bear to look at the book upon which we had labored together. I left everything to others. It had i small success nud was soon forgotten. though recent events have led tho publish*.rs to print some thousands of copies from the old plates. The work is full of unfounded belief and equally unfounded doubt. 1 am proud only of the former, which was mostly Hackett's. A natural, honest, seemingly baseless belief is probably founded upon the knowledge of tho ages and thf soul's sympathy with infinite wisdom, but your doubt is likely to be your own, and you should be the more modest in the expression of it. Pardon this digression about "Fsychic Facts." The psychic fact with which this present record principally concerns itself Is Donald Donaldson, Jr., and from this point onward 1 shall stick closely to him. I hove given n view of his parents because that wat absolutely necessary to an understanding of his nature and of the events in which he took part. 1 shall now very briefiy sketch his youth, which was ; unmarked by any incident out of the , ordinary. He was a healthy baby and a sturdy, active schoolboy when the years had , brought him onward to that stage of life. Mentally he was too.quick to re- . quire diligence. The tasks in the Tunbridge schools were easy for him, and . he led his classes without effort. It tnust bo remembered, however, that, no . other pupil had equally good home training. Ills mother was a teacher, both by nature nnd l>3' instruction. He . might have advanced more rapidly under her care alone, but the public school is a part of our creed in Tunbridge. If any school in the town had not been a good place for Donald, we should not have taken him away. We should have made the scheol better. While upon this subject I will quote a curious remark that I once heard a little girl make to another in Don's hearing nnd somewhat in the way of n \ taubt: "Don Donnldson always knows what ? the teacher's going to ask him. He t guefiscs it before recitntiqn aud hunts it up in his.book." * i 1 questioned the little girl, but could , q-q E3 IN IT rAY.) oils, we haven't the largest bank all the business of the country. goo<l people of the county with lasonable demands, with aapital ill your wants. ord, that began years ago; a record fair business methods, cit your patronage, offering every mt with good banking. o ime Deposits. ers National Bank. i ? net lenrn that she had any basis for her belief except Donald's proficiency in his studies nnd a vague tradition that he "could guess things." It was impossible to discover any specific Instance worth mentioning. In the sports of boys he was very successful, but any boy will be 60 who grows up ahead of his years. From the time when lie reached school ago he was always growing more rapidly In height and weight than the average. Moreover, he played with tremendous energy and concentration. He was fond of rougli games, but Wither suffered Injury nor indicted It. Indeed he presently began to be known as "lucky," and If I were to select one attribute of hla which never deserted him and seemed always to make its impression upon his associates I would choose his "luck." For luck 'Is a personal quality. It menus, ns n rule, no more than an Instinctive accuracy of Judgment, the power that makes a bird fly south In the fnll. though he knows nothing of the danger which lie is escaping, having never seen a winter. If 3'ou tell me that it is rational superiority which enables a boy to thrust his head into a football scrimmage In a place where it will not encounter an oinor uoy s list or liis skull or his feat nnil to keep on doing this all through a season of tlic game, I shall laugh at you. Yet It Is well known that Injuria* arc not equally distributed; that nelther tlic strong nor the prudent eacape them; that the boy who doaan't get hurt is the one who has the faculty, the natural gift, the instinctive guidance, the luck. And the werid is a great football game, full of flying flats and feet. So when Isay that Donald was lucky I lecline to be accused of superstition or of fatalism. That which all of us believe in, though some of us affect to doubt it, the thing called luck as a personal asset, is neither ordinary good judgment nor the favor of heaven. It is the faculty of relying upon a deep seated, guiding power resident In the Individual and nearly if not quite Infallible. This power is not limited by the fineness of the physical senses. It will help you to dodge au invisible microbe just as a more obvious instinct will help you to dodge a snowball. It la natural to step out of the snowball's path, but if you hesitate and try to reason about it you will get hit. And the same thing is true of that mysterious force within you which Is absolutely at one with nature. In Donald there appeared s singular combination of spontaneous judgment ind deliberate action. As s child be ivould respond to questions slowly snd with care, even when the expression of his eyes showed that the correct inswer had flashed through his mind u&iauuy. ins greatest una most OD* itinnte fault was secretlveness. Though lis nature was very affectionate and lis sympathy most tender, he lacked lie natural tendency to oonfldo hie roubles, bis joys or his hopes to the? lie loved, even to his mother. He hud no slyness. He was at no peine to *eep n secret. He simply ?Id nothing about it and gave no sign of Its ex* istence. We were often grieved to find the! tie had left us In ignorance of eomo le ?ident of his daily life, some set nek* :her praiseworthy nor blnmable or oneperhaps involving n moral question beyond the appreciation of his yeam When reproved for Stich an omission, lis customary?and, 1 believe, stncsrs ' reply would be: "Why, it never occurred to m# that you didn't know." It was frequently necessary to giro lilin quite an elaborate explanation bofore he seemed to renllao that wo ha41 tiad no means of knowing. By all this 1 do not wish to give the impression that he was a markedly phenomenal boy, but It is inogioftant, of course, that 1 should, point out all gos* '' Llculnrs in which be differed ftw tw average. 1 have therefore with greet ?are' selected these three pecalUtrttleii lie thought very quickly end ejpshs very slowly. [TO BE CONTTIVOKD.] Exercise For Both. "Does your wife go iu for athletteel" "Um?yes, in a way. She went Mt yesterday to take exercise; s*id she BUM going to walk up a long hill." "And did she?" > "No; she got into the dry geedfc <B*> Irlct and ran up a long bill Instead Von can easily see that 1 am the om ^ who. was excrclacd." ? Tenses .Ofity journal. O \ ."I ? Si .* tvi i ojbioS aBPWQA