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_ A, TERRIBLE science:
“How does fright affect you? It al-
ways makes me cold allover, and shiv-
ery, like water down one’s back, you
know.” r -
“Fright?” questioned one of those ad-
dressed. “Oh, if I’m frightened, I
scream right straight out, nothing can)
stop' m‘e—I just yell.”
~ “You just do!.” corroborated another
of the pretty conclave round the fire,
with a. laugh. “I never heard any-
thing like it; when that tramp we met
yesterday in the avenue at dusk sud“
denly addressed us, you made the wel-
kin ring, and pinched my arm black
and blue, until I made you understand
the wretched creature had only asked
his way.” . ‘
There was the usual desultory chat
and exchange of confidences, between
mouthfuls of muffin, concerning alarms,
past, present and future, when a hand—
some woman with mischievous eyes,
who had not hitherto spoken, ex-
claimed: “Were none of you girls ever
struck dumb with fright?”
“What a question?” they chorused.
“Why, Mrs. Trehernc, were you ever
taken like that?”
“On one memorable occasion,’ was
the reply, while a comical expression
settled about the corners of a month
which Venus herself might have en-
vied for its outlines, “I lost the entire
faculty of speech during fully ten min-
utes. I was struck dumb, and only
found my tongue too late to be of any
use.” ~
The speaker looked across at her
hostess. She was met by an amused air
of incredulity. “Let- us hear the story,
Kitty. I can’t believe in your being
frightened; but unbo’som yourself,
dear. I intend keeping you until the
men come in to introduce my brother,
so you’ve plenty of time.” Amid mur-
murs of excited anticipation Mrs. Tre-
herne began:
“‘It was an evening like this—dark
and dreary, with a thick, white fog.
But I’d better go back tothe beginning,
or you won’t understand. We were
living in Highfordshire during the last
years of my husband’s lifetime, and my
dream was to become an artist. I‘m
sorry to say it has never been realized.
“There was even at that time a school
of painting near us at Treeleigh, and I
soon found a- lady artist willing to teach
me the rudiments. A drawback to com-
plete happiness in my newly-adopted
vocation was the distance between our
house and this'woman’s studio, for Mr.
Trehernc, much as he disliked my
painting craze, as he called it, objected
to my being aloneabout the roads still
more; and I must admit they were un-
commonly dark at times. I may add
also”—-and the droll look crept up to her
eyes—“he had two special bugbears.
These were the artists and the models.
“He declared they were all scamps,
and that, if I escaped from the arti-
fices of the one, I should sooner or later
be garotted by the other. The male sex
he more particularly, referred to, but
I must confess he had no very high
Opinion of the women either.
“Therefore, much as he hated his
horses being out at night, he insisted
on sending the carriage‘for me in all
weathers,and I firmly believe the coach-
man had orders to give a receipt for my
person every evening.
“Whether the presence of a good-look-
ingr'young fellow who used to go about
with one of the artists, and whose, no
doubt, well-intentioned glances my
husband had surprised in church, con-
tributed at all to this frame of mind,
I never knew. But I had my suspicions,
although, asha matter of fact, I never so
much as spoke to the man, or heard his
name. -
“One day in the winter, I had been
working in the life class till after five,
and owing to a dense fog the carriage
was late. I suppose I ought to have
waited for it, but the tempter in the
shape of a girl friend persuaded me to
take tea. in- her rooms. Nor am I quite
clear if directions were left at the stu-
dio to enable the carriage to find me.
“I dare say you imagine the party
included, men. If you do, you are
wrong. Whatever Mr. Trehernc
thought, morals were very strict, I can
tell you, in Treeleigh. 4
“We were half a dozen girl students,
of whom one played divinely on the
’cello, and it must have been quite an
hour later before I started, my body-
guard not having turned Up, to trudge
home in the mudalone. -
“I have said the roads could be very
dark, but I never knew them so bad as
9
_ they were on this particular evening.
Lamps there were few even in the vil-
lage, and the fogobscured such as there
were. I felt very. sorry for myself on
leaving the comparative illumination
of the street for the utter blackness of
the lonely road that lay bet-ween me
and home. .
“I wondered where the: brougham
could be, and for once missed its com-
fortable cushions, and the inspiriting
presence of our fat coachman. The fog
penetrated eyes, nose and ears. It
blinded me and made me cough.
“With difficulty, by aid of my um,-
brella and the palings, I was able to
keep upon the apology for a sidewalk,
though in places I literally had to
crawl along as best I could.
“Just at first there were people
about, grown large and, indistinguish-
able in the mist. A boy passed me
whistling a popular air. I envied him
his courage, and would have liked to
imitate it. He passed on, and I felt
more lonely than ever. The tree trunks
loomed like huge phantoms in the
murky stillness, and the whole world
seemed dead.
“Then I remembered an encampment
of gypsies, of whom some had posed
as models, and nearly all had been up
before my husband in his capacity as
magistrate, during the past- month.
Supposing one of them had noticed my
watch or rings during a sitting? The
thought was appalling. ‘
‘ “Footsteps behind me made my heart
jump into my mouth, but they died
(may in the distance. I shuddered,’
T. H E E VE N71 no" o. A ZE‘TTE
[TH E '- MUTUAL“. LIF
9
stepped in a puddle up (to my ankles,
and, had I been a man and not so
frightened, should undoubtedly have
used bad language.
“I had reached a hollow, the very
darkest part of the'road where the fog
lay thickest, when all at once I was con-
scious of a presence beside me. It was
exactly as if the very mist had taken
shape and put its arm round my waist.
The shock was so sudden that, for an
instant, I felt as if struck by a dagger.
My tongue clave to the roof of my
mouth, and how I didn’t faint on the
Spot has always been a mystery to me.
“The spirit of the fog, or the high-
wayman, kept a firm hold on me, but did
not chang‘e.the direction of my foot-
steps. When the first intense fright
gave place to a sort of semi-conscious-
ness, I found myself being guided in a
fashion which gave me to understand
that the ghost, gypsy or garotter,
whichever it might be, at least knew the
read. I no longer stepped into puddles.
or scratched my hands in the hedges,
but was assisted along, apparently
without an effort. -
“Why I did not cry out is the inex-
plicable thing. It was doubtless that
first shock which had paralyzed my
tongue, yet I was being taken to some
lonely spot, there, I presumed, to be
robbed or murdered, ‘or both, by one
whom I could recognize only as a
blurred shape, if indeed it was of this
world at all. .
“And all this while terror kept me
dumb, while the thing neither relin-
quished nor tightened its grasp, so far
not a rough one,‘but held on the even
tenor of its way up the hill which, un-
less fright had sent my wits wool-gath-
ering altogether, should lead, I knew,
to our own avenue.
“Of course I was fully aware that
some terrible design was in the mind
of my ghostly companion, and feared
lest every moment should be my last.
Still, with life there was hope, though
I specially dreaded the lnylane which
branched off towards the ‘gypsy en-
campment, and which we must pass di-
rectly. '
“Then a new, strange feeling crept
over me. I was dreamily conscious of
leaning heavily on the garotter’s arm
and finding it a strong one, wondering
at the same time if this awful experi-
en'ce was the punishment of my disobe-
dience. IIow fervently I vowed that
if I got safely out of this scrape, noth-
ing on earth would ever again tempt me
to risk my life after dark among the
lanes of Treeleigh.
“Suddenly we stopped. I gasped,
still mute as a fish, and shut my eyes
tight. Already, in anticipation, I felt
the murderous knife at my throat, the
robber's hand rifiing my dead body.
The arm around me perceptibly tight-
ened its grip ;~ my heart stopped beat-
ing, when a deep, musical voice whis-
pered in my car: ‘There really are
footpads about, but you have no reason
to be frightened. All I want from you
is one kiss to last me my lifetime.’
“Before I could recover my senses the
highwayman had pressed his lips to
my check. The spell was broken, I
opened my eyes with a piercing shriek.
But he had vanished as silently and
adroitly as he had come. All I saw was
.the indistinct light of a lantern as our
lodge-keeper opened the gate and
hastened towards me. .
“In a dazed kind of way I reached the
house without further adventure. Who
my assailant had been I 'never knew.
I assumed him to be a gypsy imperti-
nently retaliating on me for some of
Mr. Treherne’s judgments. The voice
was one I had never heard before, but
so remarkablewas its low and peculiar
quality, that I should recognize it again
among thousands. I may add that my
husband was so vexed at my missing the
carriage, which had returned without
me, and also at my making a show of
myself by shrieking outside our own
gate, that I had to give up the school
and my artistic dreams forever.”
The completion of Mrs. Treherne’s
narrative elicited a round of applause
and a fire of chaff. The hostess, keep-
ing her eyes fixed on her friend, alone
made no remark, when a noise outside
betokened the return of the men from
hunting.
The door opened, and, following the
host, there entered a tall, good—looking.
sunburned man of about 35.
_ Mrs. Trehernc, still immersed in her
reminiscences, was gazing at the fire,
when her hostess’ voice aroused her:
“Kitty, here is my‘brother, who is
dying to be introduced to you. He has
only just returned from South Africa,
where he has been ever since he left
Treeleigh many years ago.”
Mrs. Trehernc looked up with the
half-interested air of a woman to whom
a stranger has just been presented. She
held out her hand. .
“Indeed,” she said, carelessly; “do
you also know that little artist colony?
We were just mentioning it.”
“I thought no one ever remembered
Treeleigh but me, Mrs. Trehernc. Ten
years ago I carried away from there a
. memory that will last my lifetime.”
This remark, innocent enough in it-
self, was uttered in a particularly deep
musical voice. Someflhing quite un-
usual in its timbre arrested the atten-
tion of everybody present, who, as if
impelled by a common impulse, looked
across at Mrs. Treherne, and it must
be admitted that that lady gave abun-
dant cause for curiosity. At- the first
sound of the newcomer’s voice she
started violently, and stared at the own-
er thereof with an expression of mute
dismay. She made an effort to speak.
but without success, and falling back
in her chair, covered her face with her
hands.
For an instant there was silence, then
came a burst of laughter. “ThePhan-
tom of the Mist!” they cried—Madame.
———I respect the man who knows dis-
tinctly what he wishes. The greater
part of all the mischief in the world
arises from the fact that men do not
sufficiently understand their own aims.
l They have undertaken to build atower,
l and spend no more labor on the founda-
’ tion than would be necessary “to-erect
a hut.-—Goethe.
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OF NEW YORK.
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3 amen fur eYear ndingllecu 31,1895.
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Liabilitlcs .. . ' : 194,347,157 58
Surplus . . . $26,866,563 75
. $48,597,430 51
$23,126,728 45 _
Total Income . , .
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Net gain in 1895 '$6.]~,647,645 36
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. CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor.
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From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usual.
Report of the Examining Committee.
Office of the Mutual Life Insurance company of New York,
February 11,1896.
At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of this Company, held on the 18th day of
December last, theundersigned were appointed a Committee to examine the annual
Statement for the year ending December 31st, 1895, and to verify the same by com-
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