THE WATCHER BY THE DEAD. AMBROSE BIEBCB. San Francisco Examiner. In an upper room pf an unoccupied dwelling- in that part of San Francisco known as North lien eh 1b y the tody of a man in a colfin. The hour was near nine in the evening; the room was dimly lighted by a single candle. Al though the weather was warm the two windows, contrary to the custom which gives the dead plenty of air, were closed and the blinds drawn down. The furniture of the room consisted of but three pieces; an arm-chair, a small reading-stand, supporting the candle, and along kitchen table, sup porting the body of a man covered from head to foot with a sheet All these, including the body, would seem to have been recently brought in, for an observer, had there been one, would have seen that all were free from dust; whereas everything else in the room was prettv thickly coated with it and there were cobwebs in the angles of the walls. Under the' sheet the outlines of the loly could be traced, even the fea tures, these having that unnaturally sharp definition which seems to belong to faces of the dead, but is really char acteristic of those only that have been wasted by disease. From the silence of the room one would rightly have inferred that it was not in the front of the house, facing a street. It really faced nothing but a high breast of rock, the rear of the building being set into a hill. As a neighboring church clock was Striking nine with a deliberation which seemed to imply such an indifference to the flight of time that one could hardly help wondering- why it took the trouble to strike at all, the single door of the room was opened and a man entered, advancing toward the coffin. As he did so the door closed, apparently of its own volition; there was a grating, as of a key turned with difficulty, and the snap of the lock bo.t as it shot into its socket Asound of retiring footseps in the passage out side ensued, and the man was to all appearances a prisoner. Advancing to the table, he stood a moment looking down at the body; then, with a slight thrug of the shoulders, ho walked over to one of the closed win dows and hoisted the blind. The durkness outside was absolute, the T:tnes were covered with dust, but, by wiping this away, he could see that the window was fortified with strong iron bars crossing it within a few inches of the glass and embedded in the masonry on each side. He ex amined the other window. It was the same. lie manifested no great curi osity in the matter; did not even so much as raise the sash. If he was a prisoner be was apparently a tractable one. Having completed his examina tion of the? room, he seated himself in tne arm-chair, took a book froin his pocket, drew the stand with its candle b ongside and began to read. The man was young—not more than thirty—dark in complexion, smooth shaven, with brown hair. His face was thin und high-nosed, with a broad forehead and a ' firmness" of the chin and jaw which is said to denote resolu tion. The eyes were gray and stead fast. not moving except with definitive purpose. They were now for the greater part of the time fixod upon hi> look, lut he occasionally withdrew them and turned them to the body on the table, not, apparently, from any dismal fascination which under such circumstances it might le supposed t> exercise upon even a courageous per son, nor with a conscious rebellion against the opposite influence whioi might dominate a timid one. 11. looked at it as if in his reading he had come upon something recalling him t a sense of his surroundings. Clearly this watcher of the dead was discharg ing his trust with intelligence and composure, as became him. After reading for perhaps a half hour he seemed to come to the end of a ehupter und quietly laid away the book. He then rose, and taking the reading-stand from the floor carried it into a corner of the room near one of the windows, lifted the candle from ii and returned to the empty fireplace lefore which ho had been sitting. A moment later ho walked over to the i ody on the table, lifted the sheet and turned it back from the head, ex posing a maas of dark hair and a thin face-cloth, leneath which the features showed with even sharper definition than before. Shading* his eyes by in terposing* his free hand between them and the candle, he stood looking* at his motionless companion with a serious and tranquil regard. It was a picture to delight a Kembrandt Satisfied w it IT his inspection lie pulled the sheet over the face again, and returning to his chair took some matches off the candlestick, put them in the pocket of his sack coat and sat down. lie then lifted the candle from its socket and loo.cod at it critically, as if calculating how ong it would last It was iarely two inches long. In another hour he would be dark- Dt'^! lie replaced it in the candlestick and blew it out. In a physician's office in Kearney street thn e men sat about a table, drinkin r punch and smoking. It was late in the evening, almost midnight indeed, and there had ieen no lack of punch. The eldest of the three, whom we may call Helberson, was the host it was in li.s rooms they sat He was about thirty years of age; the others Wi re younger; all were physicians. "The superstitious awe with which the living regard the dead," said Dr. licilerson, "is hereditary and iucur aile. - One need no more be ashamed of it than of the fact that he inherits, for example, an incapacity for mathe matics or a tendency to lie." The others laughed. "Oughtn't a man to be BBhamed to be a liar?" asked the youngest of the three, who was a medical student not yet grad uated "My dear Harper, I said nothing ' about that The tendency to lie is one I thing; lying is another." "But do you think," said the third I man, "that this superstitious feeling, this fear of the dead, reasonless as we ! know it to be. is universal? lam my | self not conscious of it j "Oh, but it is 'in your system,' for J all that." replied Holberson; "it needs only the right conditions—what j Shakespeare calls the 'confedeate sea i son'—to manifest itself in some very | disagreeable way that will open your eyes. Physicians and soldiers are. of course, more nearly free from it than j others." I "Physicians and soldiers! Why i don't you add hangmen and heads men? Let us have in all the assassin classes." "No, my dear Mancher; the juries will not let the public executioners acquire sufficient familiarity with death to be altogelier unmoved by it under ordinary circumstances." Young Harper, who had been help ing himself to a fresh cigar at the side board. resumed his seat. "What would you consider conditions under which any man or woman born would become insupportably conscious of his share of our common, weakness in this regard?" he asked, rather verbosely. "Well, I should say that if a man were locked up all Wight with a corpse —alone—in a dark room—of a vacant house—with no bed-covers to pull over his head—and lived through it without going altogether mad—he might justly boast himself not of woman born, nor yet, like Macduff, a product of the Caesarean operation." "I thought you never would finish piling up conditions," said Harper; "but I know a man who is neither a physician nor a soldier who will ac cept them all for any stake you like to 4 'Who is he?" "His name is Jarette—a stranger in California; comes from my town in New York. 1 haven't any money to back him, but he will back himself with dead loads of it" "How do you know that?" "He would rather bet than eat As for fear—l dare say he thinks it some cutaneous disorder, or possibly p. par ticular kind of religious heresy.'" "What does he look like?" lielfcer son was evidently becoming greatly in teres ted. "Like Mancher. here—might be his twin brother." "1 accept the challenge," said Ilel berson, promptly. "Awfully obliged to you for the com pliment, I'm sure," drawled Mancher, who was growing sleepy. "Can'tlget into this?" "Not against me," Hellersou said. 'I don't want your money.'' "All right," said Mancher. 'Til bo the corpse." The others laughed. The outcomo of this crazy conversa tion we have seen. Jn extinguishing its meagre allow ance of candle Mr. Jarette's was to preserve it against some unforeseen nee I. He may have thought, too, or haif-thouglit, that the darkness would be no worse at one time than another, and if the situation became insupport able it would be letter to have a means of relief, or even release. At any rate it was wise to have a little reserve of light, oven if only to enable him to oolc at his watch. No sooner had ho blown out the can dle and set it on the floor at his side than he settled himself comfortably in the arm-chair, leaned back and clcsed his eyes, hoping and expecting tosleep In this he was disappointed; he had never id his life felt less sleepy, and in a few minutes he gave up tho attempt But what could he do? He could not go groping about in tho absolute dark ness at the risk of bruising himself— at the risk, too, of blundering against the table and rudely disturbing the dead. We all recognize their right to lie at rest with immunity from all that is harsh and violent Jarette al most succeeded in making himself be lieve that considerations of that kind restrained him from risking the col lision and fixed him to the chair. While thinking of this matter he fancied that he heard a faint sound in the direction of tho table—what kind of sound he could hardly have ex plained. He did not turn his head. Why should he —in the darkness? But he listened —why should he not? And listening, he grew giddy and grasped the arms of the chair for support There was a strange ringing in his ears; his head seemed bursting; his chest was oppressed by tho constriction of his clothing. He woudered why it was so. and whether these were symp toms of fear. Suddenly,with a longand strong expiration his chest appeared to collapse, and "with the great gasp with which he refilled his exhausted lungs the vertigoleft him, and he knew that so intently had he listened that he had held his 1 reath almost to suffo cation. The revelation was vexations; he rose, pushed away the chair with his foot and strode to the centre of the room. But one does not stride far in darkness: he began to grope, and find ing the wall followed it to an angle, turned, followed it past tho two win dows, and there in another corner came into'violent contact with the, reading-stand, overturning it It made a clatter which startled him. He was annoyed. "How the devil could 1 have forgotten where it was?" ho murmured, and groped his way along the third wall to the fireplace; "I must put things to rights," said Mr. Jarette, feeling the floor for the candle. Having recovered that, ho lighted it j and instantly turned his eyes to the table, where, naturally, nothing had undergone any change. Thereading stand lay unobserved upon tho floor; he had forgotten to "put it to rights." lie looked all about tho room, dispers ing the deeper shadows by movements of "the candle in his hand, and, finally, crossing over to the door tried it by turning and pulling the knob with all his strength. It did not yield, and this seemed to afford him a certain satisfaction; indeed, he secured it more firmly by a bolt which ho had not be fore observed. Returning to his chair, he looked at his watch; it was half-past nine. With a start of surprise , he held the watch at his ear. It bad not stopped. The candle was now visibly shorter. He again extinguished it, placing it on the floor at his side, as before. Mr. Jarrette was not at his ease; he was distinctly dissatisfied with his sur roundings. and with himself for being | .so. "What have 1 to fear?" .h thought- "This is ridiculous and dis graceful; I will not be so great a fool." But courage does not come of saving. "I will be courageous," nor of recog nizing its appropriateness to the occa sion. The more Jarrette condemned himself, the more reason lie gave him self for condemnation; the greater the .number of variations which he piayed upon tho simple theme of the harm lessness of the dead the more horrible grew the discord of his emotions. "What!" he cried aloud in the anguish of his spirit— "what! Shall I, who j have not a shade of superstition in mv nature—l, who have no belief iu im mortality—l, who Know, and never | more clearly than now, that the after life is the dream of a desire —shall l lose at once my let, my honor, and my self-respect, perhaps my reason lie cause □certain savage ancestors, dwelling in caves, .conceived the mon strous notion that the dead walk by night: that " Distinctly, unmis takably, Mr. Jarrette hoard behind him a light, soft sound of footfalls, deliberate, regular, and successively .learer. Just before daybreak the next morn ing l)r. Helberson and his young friend Harper were driving slowly through the streets of North Beach in the doc tor's coupe. "Have you still tho confidence of youth in the courage—or stolidy—of vour friend?" said the elder man. "Do you lelieve that l have lost this wager?' "J know you have!" replied the other Well, upon my soul, I hopesa" It was spoken earnestly, almost solemniy. There was silence for a few moments. "Harper," the doctor resumed, look ing very serious iu the shifting half lights that entered the carriage as they passed the street lamps, "I don't feel a 1 tor other comfortable about this lusinoss. If your friend had not irri tated me by the contemptuous manner in which he treated my doubt of his endurance—a partly physical quality— and by the cool incivility of his sug gestion that tho corpse I e that of a physician, I should not have gono on with it- If anything should happen we are ruined, as I fear we deserve to be.'' "What can happen? Even if the matter should le taking a serious turn, of which I am not at all afraid Mancher has only to resurrect himself and explain mattera With a genuine 'subject' from tho dissecting-room, or one of your late patients, it might be altogether different." Dr. Mancher, then, had been us good as his promise; he was the "corpse." Dr. Ilelberson was silent for a long time, as the carriage, at a snail's pace, crept along the same street it hud trav eled two or three times already. Pres ently he spoke: "Well, let us hope that Mancher, if he has had to rise from the dead, has been discreet ai out it A mistake in that might make it worse instead of bettor." "Yes," said Harper, "Jarrette might kill him, But, Doctor,"—looking at his watch as the carriage passed a gas lamp— 4 'it is nearly four o'clock at last" A moment later the two had quilted ths vehicle and were walking briskly toward the long unoccupied house be longing to the doctor, in which they had immured Mr. Jarrette, in virtual but not literal accordance with the terms of the mad wager. As they ' neared it they met a man running. "Canyon tell me," lie criefl, suddenly checking his speed, "where I can lind a physician?" "What's the matter?" aslced Ilelbcr son, non-com m ittai. ' (lo and see for yourself," said the man, resuming his running. They hastened on. Arriving at the house, thej'saw several persons enter ing in haste and excitement in some of the dwellings near by and across the way the chamber windows were up, showing a protrusion of heads. All heads were asking questions, none heeding the questions of the others. A few of the windows with colored blinds were illuminated; the inmates of those rooms were dressing to come down. Exactly opposite the door of the house which they sought a street lamp threw a yellow, insufficient light upon the scene, seeming to say that it could disclose a good deal more if it wished. Harper, who was now deathly pale, paused at the door and laid a hand upon his companion's arm. "It is all up with us, doctor," he said in extreme agitation, which contrasted strangely with his free and easy words; ' the game has gone against us all. Eel's uot go in there; I'm for lying "I'm a physician." said Dr. Hel i er son. calmly; "there may be need o: They mounted the doorsteps and were about to enter. The door was open; the street-lamp opposite lighted the passage into which it opened It was full of people. Some had ascended the stairs at the further end, and, de nied admittance a love, waited for bet ter fortune. All were talking, none listening. Suddenly on the upper landing there was a groat commotion; a man had sprung out of a door and was Ireaking away from those en deavoring to detain him. Down through tiie mass of affrighted idlers he came, pushing them aside, llattening them against the wall on one side or compelling them to cling by the rail on the other, clutching them by the throat, striking them savagely, thrust ing them back down the stairs an I walking over the fallen. His clothing was in disorder, he was without a hat. Ilia eyes, wild and restless, had in them something more terrifying than his apparently superhuman strength. His face, smooth-shaven, was bloodless, his hair snow-white. As the ero.vd at the foot of the stairs having more freedom, fell away to let him pass. Harper sprang forward. "Jarette! Jarette!" he cried. Dr. Helbersou seized Harper by the collar and dragged him back. The man looked into their faces without seem in? to see them, and sprang through the door, down the steps, into the street and away. A stout police man, who had hud inferior success in conquering his way down % the stair way, followed a moment later and start i in pursuit, all the heads in the windows—tiiose of women and chil dren now—screaming in guidance. The stairway being 1 now part.lv cleared, most of tiie crow having rushed down to the street to observe the fight an.l pursuit, Dr. Helbersou mounted to the land in?, followed by ; Harper. At a door in the' upper pas ture an officer denied thein admittance. "We are physicians," said the doctor, and they passpd in. The room was full of men. dimly seen crowded about a , table. The new-comers edgel their way forward and looked over the : shoulders of those in the front rank. Upon the table, the lower limbs eov i ered with a sheet, lay the body of a man, brilliantly illuminated by the oca in of a bull's-eye lantern he id by a I policeman stand in? at the foot. The j others, excepting- those near the head —the officer himself —ail were in dark ' less. The face of the body showed vellow, repulsive, horrible! The eyes were partly open and upturned, and the jaw fallen; traces of froth defiied the lips, the chin, the cheeks. A tall man. evidently a physician, bent over the body with his hand thrust under the shirt-front. He withdrew it and placed to fingers in the open mouth. "This man has been about two hours deai," said ho. "It is a case for the coi oner." Ho drew a card from his pocket handed it to the officer and m ide his way toward the door. " Clear the room—out, all!" said the officer sharply, and' the body disap peared as if it hail been snatches uway, as he Hashed his beam of light .iere and there against the faces of the crowd. The effect was amazing; the men, blinded, confused, almost terrified, made a tumultuous rush for ihe door pushing, crowding, and tumbling over one another as they iled like the hosts of night before the shafts of Apollo Upon the struggling,tramp ling mass the officer poured his power without pity and without cessation. I - 'aught in the current, Ilelberson and Harper were swept out of the room and cascaded down the stairs into the street. "Good God, doctor! did I not tell you that Jarette would kiil him?" raid Harper as soon as they were clear of the crowd. "I believe you did," replied the other without apparent emotion. They walked on in silence, block and block. Against the graying East the dwellings of our hill-tops showed in silhouette. The milk wagon was already astir in the streets; the bak er's man would soon come on the scene: the newspaper carrier was abroad in the land. "It strikes me, youngster," said Hel bersou, "that you and I are havinc too much of the morning air lately. It is unwholesome; we need a change. What do you say to a tour in Europe?" "When?" "I'm not particular; 1 should sup pose that four o'clock this afternoon would be early enough." "I ll meet you at the boat," said Harper. Seven years afterward these two men sat upon a bench in Madison Square, New York, in familiar conver sation. Another man, who had I een observing them for some time, him self unobserved, approached, and cour teously lifting his hat from locks as white as snow, said: "1 beg your par ion, gentlemen, but when you have ■ killed a man by co nin? to life it is ! best to change clothes with him. and at the first opportunity make h break for liberty." liuiborson and Ilarpsr exchanged significant glances. They were appar ently amused. The former then looked the stranger in the eye anil re plied: "That has always been my plan. 1 entirely agree with you as to its ai 11c stopped suddenly and grew deathly pale. He stared at the man. open-mouthed; he trembled visibly. "Ah!" sai I the stranger, "I see that J you are indisposed, doctor. If you ! cannot treat yourself. Dr. Harper can I do something for you; I am sure." { ' Who the devil are you?" said Har- I nor. bluntly. The stranger came nearer, and'bend : in? toward them said in a whisper: "1 • all myself Jarette sometimes, but 1 I i'.ont mind telling, for old friendship that I am William Manchcr." The revelation brought both men to their feet. "Mancher!" they cried in a breath; and Helberson added: "It if ; j '.rue. by G " | "Yes." said the stranger, smillnr vaguely; "it is true enough, no doubt." lie hesitated and seemed to be try ing to recall something—then began humming a popular air. Ho had ap ! parently forgotten their presence. "Look here, Mancher," said the elder of the two, "toll us just what | occurred that night—to Jarette, you I know." 4 Oh. yes, about Jarette," said the other, brightening. "It's odd I have neglected to tell you—l tell it so often You see, 1 lcnew by overhearing him I talking to himself that ho was prettv hodiy frightene I. Ho 1 couldn't resist the temptation.—l could i't really. That was all right, though certainiv I did not think he would take it so ser iously—l did not truly. And after ward —well, it was a tough job chang ing places with him. and th ?n—d von! you didn't let me out!" Nothing couid exceed the ferocity with wlrich these last words were de livered. Both men stepped back in alarm. "We?—why,'"' Ilelberson stammered losing liis self-possession utter.y, "we had nothing to do with it" 44 I)iln't I say you were doctors Hel born and Sharper?" inquired the luna tic. laughing. "My uaine is Ilolbersoa, yes. and this gentleman is Mr. Harper," replied the former, reassured. "But we are not physicians now; we are—well, hang it, old man, wd are gamblers." And that was the truth, j "A very good profession—very good, Indeed; and, by the way I hope Sharper here paid over Jarette's money like an honest stakeholder. A very pool an I honorable profession," he repeated, thoughtfully," moving care less- ly away; "iut T stick to the old one. 1 yin Chief Medical Officer of the Uloornington Asvlum; it is in/ duty to cure the Superintendent." MASKS AND FACES. AJLES INTROVILI.B —PKTIT JOUKNAI* A masked ball was to be given in the liotel-de-ville for the benefit of the enfants trouvos, and Alp'nonse Hypolite do Dudemont planned to be there. Three individuals at onoe attracted his attention. The first was a richly dressed lady, apparently in her first youth, repre senting Diane de l'oicticrs, favorite of Henry II; the second was a slim figure carrying a crutched stick and wearing tne powdered hair aud rich apparel of Ninon I'Enclos; the third was a fat crusader with a shell in his cap to show he had been to Palestine. Hypolite first made the acquaint ance of Diane, lut was much annoyed to find the crusader making ardent at tempts to attract the lady. Next our hero took up with Ninon, but was dis gusted with the rotund figure continu ing to dog his heels and trying to cut him out. The Devil take the crusader! He dropped Ninon and retired with Diane to a recess, where he made the running very fast indeed. To the great wrath of M. de Dude mont ho found that the fat'man of the crusades had followed him und was again making play to attract the fair Diane. "Monsieur," said Ilypoiite, "your at tentions are obtrusive. I demand sat isfaction; unmask!" The crusader contemptuously tore >ff his mask and. dashed it at the feet of Alphonsa Hy polite de Dudemont. It was his father. On seeking the stern visage of the unmasked crusaler, the lady so fondly leaning on the arm of M. Alphonse gave a screech and would have fallen. With a tender hand he removed her mask. Ciel! it was his mother. At this moment the fuir creature vith the clutched stick joined in the group, and, not perceiving anything amiss, gayly tapped him on the arm. "Recreant knight! Is it thus that you keep faith with your fond nymph?" As she spoke an usher approached and with many apologies, informed her that the prefect peremptorily re quired all to unmask Reluctantly the fair being stood disclosed to the eyes of Alphonse Hypolite. Dieu! it was liis grandmother. Precaution. "What a methodical fellow you are Dobbs!" said Filkins, who hud step ped into Dobbs' office during the lat ter's absence. 44 Why, what do you mean," echoed Do bis. "To ihink that you should lock all your drawers when you are only going out for fiive minutes. 'Tisn't likely that anybody would meddle with your papers." "Of course not," replied Dobbs, "but how did you find out that the drawers were locked." Further Instruction Postponed. After leading carefully up to the tuiject the teacher of the class in the Waif s mission Sunday school felt con fident that he had made an impression on snu bnosed Mike, the boot-black. ''And now, Mike," ho said, adapting his style of talk to the vocabulary of, the class, 4 'what sort of kids do you think go to heaven?" "Dead ones," (answered snubnoscd Mike, solemnly. And the mo.-al lecture ended right •here. To b® in FHtdtimi. "Now that we are in a posi Hon to • liter sosiety, Edmund," said Mine. Newrich, "I want you to do lue a favor." "What is it, Maria?'' queried Mr. Newrich. "Isn't your new carriage good enough?" "That's ail right, dear," replied Mrae. Newrich. "But Ido wish you'd get one of those receivers that so many men are having now." Got Alieud of Him. "Young Dramaticus lias been ar rested, 1 hear." "Yes." "By whom?" "The society for prevention of cru vlty to animals." "For what?" 'He had just finished a play anc 1 .vas about to try it on the dogs." A Oil let u.s. Crummer—"Have you heard about he mean trick that Vokes' wife played on him?" Gilieland— "Na" Crummer —"She took a dozen cigars out of his own box, presented them tc him, and after he had condemned them to his heart's content, toid bin vhere she got them." He Saved Himself. She (slightly tinctured with woman's rights notions) 4 4DO you believe ir the equality of women?" He (emphatically) "1 do not" She (drawing away from hirn "What!" lie—"l believe woman to bo emin ently superior to man." IlcHHlnt; h Patron. Rural druggist —"What did you m4x with the strawberry fiavor that young ludv called for?" Soda fountain boy—"Only a lot ol acids. She's from the city and I inado it taste like the strawberries she's used to, so she'd think it was pure fruit" Accounting for It. Willie —"You never drink any water, do you?" Featherstono— "Not if I can help it Willie." Willie—"l suppose you are afraid it will make your nerve rusty. Sister j ■aid it was a cast-iron one." ■! ■ M | 1 M ■ AH il-'r -ll ■" ■ : I lr ■ #1 I ■ lin |M PWf. Kw ■ wkpF ■ ■ Ifl for Infants and Children. 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