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CHICAGO, ILL., SATURDAY, JULY 15,
1905.
I do not know What to think of this story
which was told to me by A friend.
not give it in his own words. because he
,did not tell it connectedly. but hit hy bit-
V in t‘z1('L I had almost to
' After first going past
sir
. been
drag it out 0! ‘him-
tind he was frightened at the time.
’He (‘time into my room late at night-we
live on the same staircase in the T8IYlDest-
my ,door on his Wily’
cluttering down the l stone
om e was quite Dale,
and trembling all over, and his first word:
. on, or something. I know you don't
believe in these t IDES."
"“’hnt !hlnEi?" I aai .
"VVell"Ai'le seemed to have ti rlifficulty In
finding the right word-“psychical things,
perhaps I ought 0 say.
actiy; not anything to do with spirit; or
that sort of I)0nsel'l!(%y0I.I know w a
.e:ili.
"Hypnotlsm. nerhaps7’’
'‘ o. A least, 1 dim’ think 60.
the trouble. That's what upset me
n
some uowertul new kind a
T" broke oi‘! and seemed to wince
until‘? his own thoughts.
"I: it lIn)'tl'lil‘lg private?" I asked. "Frill
- happened? Never mird
not."
"I hardly dzlre
-well, either yarn, or else as though hziil
made I1 00 of." y .
"VVt‘ll," I said. brcoming impatient, “eithrr
i tell it to me or leave it alone. It’: irllatim;
can- .
to listen to mysterious hints that you don’!
exnlzllrl.“
2 seemed to see the torce oi’ this, find
I could see that he was trying to think 0
home way ot beginning the story. At lust
Ii broke out me it so 2 ow, but only
Itvr I40 m n false starts and so
many Interruption: and doubling: that it
was all 1 o to rollow him distinctly
eep him to the point.
"1 must. tell you hrst," he said, "though
it has nothing really to do with t
t .
now What that means. believe
hers who would rather
Ell‘ children than to see them
we ltlFSEd each other as us I Whe she
e in I have ‘got to tell you that-hut
a soon as We got onto the subject of her
I and she
w away declaring she would have noth-
int? more to with me.
“I was trlghttully cut up, of course.
Ileiwve that ii’ she hadrput her head back
through the door and asked ‘
Endless lot of scenes DI’ the same
in
kind right through our married lire. But,
anyhow. n a sort 0! miserable stat?
when a man doesn't care what
t0
him.
"I went and dined
two Indians in our in one of them
in Hail.
V a
hail uho goes about in
The Ytllzl they Dali him: C n’ remember
his; no r 0 e . lnterrnlna
luring‘: ot H 0 rnbberish. Neither he nor
the other man, who was a Fiohammediln,
t k mly wine,-so the captain and I hlld ii
doublv ‘hart
"I don't care to talk to strangers as II
me I Ehoud
There were ‘
or, The Man Who
By ALLEh
rult‘. Dut l was in that excited state that
l
Ittlnwthlng zlbo t the l EttI'n(‘t(‘d
can hardly explain how I asked hiln
got 0 he sun.
v
jourl he ‘had 3. set right at the ton of
a house in that row overlooking Gray‘: Inn
- Verularn Buildings. '
‘called. The rooms were v
the oor, and a sort. or divan
the wall ct r it
There was ir. which he sale mo,
and .-i little table, and he made me 2. cup
of colree, and feartully strong, something
like the Turkish coffee you get at the
-rrnrndero.
"He did not take any liiniueit, but he sat
down on the ivan an we went on talk-
lmr. I told him about Kant, and the ideas
o
I
u
1
r
s‘.
8
u
1
o
v.
m
:
ance to undo m
and get back to the point
r
=
to
she ad fixeii,
u d 5 who never late. said I should
like to live back through six hours and la
uur or:
“The Yogi handed me A small brass ring
ms
in
Yogi, saying in
dill so-Le-W’ yrev.
"As the words left my mouth I realized
h t I was livin backward, and t at t 0
last thing 1 had said in taking the ring was
don't. you. that
were Spoken!
cribe to you the
dmy
pocket, and stretthed out'my hniid to the
empty Carlee cup. I lifted it mouth
red to r9'elve it
"The taste was exactly E! if I had been
Lived Backward,
UPWARD.
drinking. and. of course. there was no rt-<
s. ‘ll e on the pals: at the muscles at the
throat, but the Whole sensation was elltlrcly
ovel. I can 0 '
that 1 telt as though I
inside out, will e experiencing ull the pious.
ur9 of the original drau t. .
“A3 500)] as the Cup was renlled I set it
down Again. and the moisture on my lllJE
disiippcrired, M
:4
table. It was like watching the moverricnti
’ I)
he in doing-:13 . As a
hacked out oi’ the room ml the coffee. I
hit myself jerked, as it u-er out at m .
rniilr, and walking backward without try-
ing to see where I was . .>
‘A d. rnyselt thinking
2
telpiece, headed noitncudE lager. to licnuuc,
iin w it announced 3 lorthcomlng exam-
innllon in oman my.
"I looking around the
rcsurning m rst
room,
into the next X00711 and n12kB
After that we both
through the door. W
went straight to where -I had ion my
hat tin 3 (‘ in the little corridor. Whli-3
me 3 cut: 0!
backed out
the Yogi [7 k e of ooden mLlt(h
01! (I tray, blew it alight, litted ii to the
gas-jet, and t arne lie lh
' h nix alltly
esitated. while my host
told me to put them where I liked.
"At
we got ou e, and my coin.
pnnion closed the door and locked it, and
LINK? m to wot . H ,
“‘Ve 'ent do e stairs backward,
pausing to get breath on the landings. On
' vie passe ri sir g who who
running lightly up. Ali we a cried t>Il('h
play
passed, and hen xx 2 g who
he mi and thinlm-ig his race “as tomiliar
to e n his g‘? as he ran
back trorn me up the stairs was a most
(‘urluus sight. and yet it did not afiett nio
as linpossible. ’
my way down‘ the stairs I renerted
he Benciiers did not admi men a
students with ‘
"As we reach round door and
passed out onto the pavement the Yogi told
me - was where he lived, and
wondered it it was rash on my pzlrt to ven-
lure into his den.
crews‘ hen and proceed to entangle them
deliberately. as it looked. Then they began
n swear nn rumble at each other. and
men they rapidly drew apart
"I noticed one man take an evening paper
out nt his pocket, mutter an , ginn
o
Illlr-Err All along Holborn there we
buy: shrieking ‘Z‘l-ni-W eht ll‘-8W!‘ I l-nigh
coon as we got into nolborn I had the ‘
